HANSAN: RISING DRAGON Secured the Box Office Top on the 2nd Week of Its Release

With the release of new Korean ‘Tentpole’ movies every week in the summer theater, Director Kim Hanmin's HANSAN: RISING DRAGON remained at the top of the box office even in the second week of its release.According to the Korean Box Office Information Syste...

THE MAN STANDING NEXT Repeats During Slow Weekend

The post-Lunar New Year weekend suffered a far steeper crash than usual this year due to fears over the spread of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus, which has so far infected 15 people in South Korea. Admission were down 70% to 1.11 million and local holdovers largely...

THE MAN STANDING NEXT Edges Out HITMAN in Busy Lunar New Year Weekend

Business shot up 150% as the Lunar New Year celebrations got underway, with 3.72 million admissions counted over the three-day weekend, with business spilling over into Monday, which is also a holiday. With three major local releases launched for the festiviti...

ASHFALL Scores 3rd Weekend Win

The first weekend of 2020 was dominated by titles from the end of last year, particularly local films which accounted for 67% of all sales. Overall, 1.87 million tickets were sold over the three-day period. Taking its third weekend crown was the local disaster...

ASHFALL Erupts in Powerful Opening

As a pair of major local titles entered the charts, business shot up 75% week-on-week as 3.6 million admissions were registered during the penultimate weekend of the year. Korean films improved greatly on the charts, with the local share rising from 7 to 84%. ...

FROZEN Leaves JUMANJI Out in the Cold

Business was down over 30% week-on-week as new titles failed to unseat the reigning champ on the charts. The mid-December weekend still managed to draw a healthy 2.14 million viewers, a figure that should rise considerably as we enter the end-of-year season wi...

THE DIVINE MOVE 2 Posts Strong Debut

As we edge closer to winter, admissions were down marginally to 2.04 million but with a strong new local title in the mix the Korean market share shot back up to a healthy 61%. Opening over five years after the original and with KWON Sang-woo replacing JUNG Wo...

A Triumph for Diversity Films

The Korean box office ended on a bang last year when December delivered by far the best results for Korean and overall sales for the month since records began. Some of that momentum carried through into the early weeks of 2018, but the first quarter of the yea...

An Unexpected Jackpot

Box Office Report of 2017 The Korean film market reached new all-time benchmarks for income and admissions in 2017 after a strong December rally. Yet the real story behind the numbers was which unexpected films got audiences the most excited while several seem...

KEYS TO THE HEART Rises to 1st

No new releases cracked the top five over the past weekend, which saw local titles claim back the majority share after briefly losing it last week to Hollywood. With the absence of strong new business, sales were down about 25% to 2.33 million with Korean prod...