INNOCENT WITNESS Opens in 2nd, THE ODD FAMILY Trails in 5th

New well-received local content kept the domestic market share high at 67% while the Lunar New Year champion continued its assault on the record books as 2.44 million tickets were sold over the weekend. Finally slowing down in its fourth week, local comedy sma...

ALONG WITH THE GODS 2 Rewrites the Record

Historic Start for Fantasy Epic Sequel As record heat battered the country and schools were out for the holidays, the Korean box office soared to 5.46 million admissions sold over the three-day frame. Of those, 79% went to local titles as a specific local bloc...

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...

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...

Battle of December, Three-Way Showdown

With a few presumed hits coming up short and lower-than-usual attendance at some points of the year, particularly early summer, a lot was banking on December to pick up the slack and close the year on a high note. The end-of-year period (late December and earl...

PSYCHOKINESIS Falls to Earth in Rocky Launch

Weekend sales took a 15% dip as a major new release fell short of expectations, bringing admissions down to 1.96 million admissions. Despite a slow start for a local tentpole, the Korean market share remained healthy at 57%, though there was little in the way ...

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...

THE MAZE RUNNER Finds Way to Top of the Charts

Last year’s end-of-year titans finally relinquished their hold on the top of the chart to make way for new releases as a Hollywood film topped the rankings for the first time since Justice League in late November. It was also the first time Korea fell short of...

1987 Tops COCO Opening as It Ascends to Top Rank

ALONG WITH THE GODS Becomes 6th Most Successful Korean Film of All Time Korea’s end-of-year hits switched places during another busy early January frame which welcomed 3.14 million viewers. Hollywood imports once again failed to topple last year’s local blockb...

ALONG WITH THE GODS Threepeats as It Rises Through All Time Chart

Business remained brisk during the first weekend of the year as two homegrown hits continued to draw big crowds, with one of those rising on the all-time box office list. All told, 3.64 million tickets were sold with local releases accounting for 69% of sales....