JOSÉE Repeats Atop Quiet Weekend

With new COVID cases steady around 1,000 per day, audiences largely stayed away from theaters, and distributors followed suit, as they launched no major new content in multiplexes. Amid the COVID-19 spike, it was one of the quietest weekends on record, with 10...

BEST FRIEND Clinches 1st Place As COVID-19 Throttles Sales

It was a very quiet weekend at the box office as Korea edged up last Thursday into its second highest peak of daily new COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began. Business slowed 40% week-on-week with just 277,000 tickets sold over the Friday to Sunday period. M...

COLLECTORS Unearths 3rd Weekend Win

Business Down as COVID Cases Rise Once More The Korean box office continues its seesaw trajectory in 2020 as rising numbers of COVID cases have once again dampened the fortunes of the exhibition sector. Business over the weekend slowed 25% with 442,000 ticket...

DETECTIVE K Unearths Pre-Lunar New Year Win

Admissions Down Ahead of Holiday Surge A local period film timed for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday led the chart as Korean films made up 70% of sales at the box office, while the calm before the holiday storm amounted to a quiet weekend with just 1.64 mi...

A TAXI DRIVER Rides Into 10 Million Viewer Club

Buckets of rain came down on Korea over the weekend but the stream of crowds heading to theaters remained unabated as admissions stood at a healthy 3.57 million. Korean films remained strong as a pair of dominant holdovers and some new releases contributed to ...

Superhero Brawl Goes Down Without a Fight

Business crashed over 40% as last week’s big winner failed to retain its audience and no new major titles braved the marketplace for its second weekend. Just over a million tickets were sold over the frame, with Hollywood claiming an 80% share of that total. ...

VETERAN Fourpeats, Enters 10 Million Club

In a rare sweep, local films held the top five spots at the Korean box office, clinching 85% of the market in a weekend that attracted 2.54 million filmgoers. Sustained strong performances by Korean films in August have put domestic fare back over Hollywood fo...

VETERAN Knocks Out the Competition in the Biggest Weekend of the Year

With school still out and a strong chorus of tentpole releases, the Korean box office is maintaining its hot streak after recording the biggest weekend of the year to date with 4.68 million tickets sold (USD 31.76 million), of which 64% were for local releases...

ASSASSINATION Takes Out the Competition

High season at the Korean box office officially began over the weekend as hit maker CHOI Dong-hoon posted his best ever debut with his latest star-powered action-thriller Assassination. Commanding two thirds of the marketplace, CHOI’s film dominated with 2.44 ...

KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE Stands Atop Amongst Weak Domestic Films

According to the Korean Film Council’s Integrated Ticket Sales Network on March 2nd, Kingsman: The Secret Service (henceforth Kingsman)　hit 3,375,572 in ticket sales and took the top spot at the weekend box office. Unlike the smooth run Kingsman is enjoying, o...