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• Box Office Report for the first quarter of 2017   May 08, 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 2015 (54.56 million), Q1 this year handily exceeded the totals of the last two years, with a sturdy 52.27 million admissions registered d...
• CONFIDENTIAL ASSIGNMENT Knocks Down THE KING   Jan 31, 2017 Fortunes changed at the box office as the two major local releases for the Lunar New Year switched places over the holiday. 4.19 million viewers bought tickets over the weekend, with 1.39 million of those selling on Lunar New Year day, which fell on Saturday. It was the biggest LNY day at the box office since 2014. Local films were far and away the top draw, accounting for 77% of all sales. After ...
• THE KING Edges Out CONFIDENTIAL ASSIGNMENT   Jan 23, 2017 Business picked up going into the weekend preceding the Lunar New Year holiday week as local studios released their first major titles of the year. Ticket sales rose almost 30% to 3.12 million while the domestic marketshare soared to 76%. Taking the first place spot in a hotly contested weekend by a wide margin was Next Entertainment World’s judicial epic The King. From The Face Reader (2013) d...

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