SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — “12.12: The Day,” a historical saga about South Korea’s military coup in 1979, continues to dominate the local box office, data showed Monday. The cumulative ticket sales of the title topped 7 million earlier in the day, data from the Korean Film Council showed. Since its release on Nov. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – In an unexpected turn of events, director Kim Sung-su’s film ’12.12: The Day,’ centered around the December 12, 1979 military coup in South Korea, is on the verge of surpassing the 5 million cumulative viewers mark. Released in the traditionally slow month of November and diverging from recent audience trends [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean historical film about a military coup in 1979 is rapidly gaining popularity, data showed Monday, revitalizing the local film industry that has been sluggish for some time. According to computerized data from the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), “12.12: The Day” topped the weekend box-office chart, drawing 1.49 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean romantic comedy “Love Reset” has remained atop the local box office for three weeks in a row since its opening, data showed Monday. The movie also attracted around 246,000 moviegoers from Friday to Sunday, accounting for 40.3 percent of total ticket sales, according to data from the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Police have accused film distributors of manipulating ticket sales and obstructing official duties, while the movie industry is deeming the allegations excessive. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on Wednesday announced the result after investigating three major movie theater chains CGV, Lotte Cinema and Megabox, 98 film distributors and 462 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Pixar Animation Studios’ “Elemental” surpassed 6 million admissions Thursday, becoming the first animated film to achieve this milestone in South Korea since “Frozen 2″ in 2019, its local distributor, Walt Disney Company Korea, said. On Sunday, it set a new record as the most-viewed foreign film released in the [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Pixar Animation Studios’ “Elemental” has drawn over 5 million moviegoers in the local box office, becoming the most-viewed Pixar film ever released in South Korea. “Elemental,” the Disney-owned animation studio’s latest film, had garnered a cumulative audience of 5.03 million as of Monday, the 40th day of its release, [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Pixar’s new animated film, “Elemental,” is beloved in South Korea despite disappointing box office scores in North America. The animated film has attracted 2.32 million moviegoers in South Korea as of Monday, the 20th day after its release, generating revenue of some 23 billion won (US$17.6 million). In other [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Marvel Studios’ new film “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3″ has surpassed 3 million admissions at the fastest pace among this year’s releases in South Korea, its local distributor said Friday. The film reached the milestone at 1:35 p.m. on the 17th day of its release, according to Walt [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — “Suzume” has become the most-viewed Japanese film ever released in South Korea. Japanese director Makoto Shinkai’s latest animation broke the record set by the animation “The First Slam Dunk,” on Friday with 4.482 million admissions, according to data from the Korean Film Council. As of Sunday, “Suzume” gathered about [...]