THE PIRATES 2 Repeats after Lunar New Year Win

After a slight Lunar New Year bump, admissions cooled down almost 30% following the holidays. Local releases timed for the break continued to power the charts, accounting for 75% of the 405,000 tickets sold over the past weekend. There was very little disturba...

Stranger Than Fiction: Politics & History Inspire Cinema

The Korean box office has had a rocky ride through the first two trimesters of 2017, but this period was not without its success stories. Though controversies and an uneven slate of films presented some obstacles, Korean history remained a strong driver for pr...

PIRATES Sails into Pole Position

Disney laid claim to first place at the Korean box office as the latest installment of Pirates of the Caribbean climbed the chart and a surprise second-place debut came from a local documentary. Hollywood seized 70% of the box office loot this weekend, which a...

GET OUT Gets In Commanding First Place

Two films jostled for the top spot over the weekend but despite a neck-and-neck start, one of the openers appears to have succumbed to an online controversy. Hollywood titles made up 61% of sales, which reached 2.09 million tickets in the spring weekend. A few...

ALIEN: COVENANT Bursts into First

Business over the weekend spreads across several titles with new entries sharing the spoils with last week’s top three finishers. Overall, Hollywood maintained its edge with a 61% share of the 2.06 million recorded admissions. Opening with 525,000 entries (USD...

Box Office Report for the first quarter of 2017

The first quarter of 2017 was one of few surprises at the Korean box office but one which demonstrated the industry’s stability, both as a global exhibition market and a local production industry. Though not quite reaching the highs of 2013 (55.47 million) or ...