SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Movie attendance plummeted by more than 30 percent on-year in the first half of the year, a midyear report from the Korean Film Council showed Thursday. According to the report, total attendance from January to June was 42.5 million, generating 407.9 billion won (US$293 million) in ticket sales. The [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean film attendance numbers nearly shot back up to the pre-pandemic level in May, data showed Wednesday, with a couple of big hits leading the charge. According to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), movies screened in the country amassed a combined 14.55 million admissions in May, the highest [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Hollywood blockbuster “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” has topped a cumulative 3 million admissions at the fastest pace in the pandemic era, box-office data showed Monday. The latest Marvel Studios’ flick attracted 1.7 million people from Friday to Sunday, bringing its combined total to 3.5 million, according [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” the latest Spider-Man series film, has topped a cumulative 3 million admissions at the fastest pace in the pandemic era, box office data showed Wednesday. The blockbuster attracted 196,000 people on Tuesday, bringing its combined total to 3.18 million on the seventh day following its [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of visitors to major amusement and theme parks across the country decreased sharply last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Monday. According to data from the state-run Korea Culture and Tourism Institute, attendance at Lotte World in southern Seoul stood at 1.56 million in 2020, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — No longer basking in the glow of a flourishing film industry, South Korea is expected to log the lowest number of moviegoers in over a decade this year due to the impact of the new coronavirus pandemic. As of Wednesday, the total number of moviegoers for this year was [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Church attendance and giving in South Korea have been sharply reduced due to the coronavirus pandemic, a survey showed on Saturday. In the survey of 1,135 member pastors of the General Assembly of Presbyterian Church in Korea, 68.8 percent said church donations have decreased due to COVID-19, while 30.1 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Walt Disney’s sensational film “Frozen 2″ surpassed 10 million admissions in South Korean theaters on Saturday. The animated flick set the record by 2:40 p.m., according to Walt Disney Company Korea, the local film distributing unit of the U.S. giant, based on a real-time box-office tally from the Korean [...]