SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean moviegoers nose-dived more than 80 percent on-year in November as the third wave of the novel coronavirus pandemic hit the country, data showed Thursday. A total of 3.59 million people went to theaters last month, down 80.7 percent from 18.6 million tallied a year [...]
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, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of moviegoers nationwide fell more than 20 percent in November as the third wave of mass coronavirus infections swept across the country, data showed Thursday. A total of 3.6 million people went to theaters last month, down 22 percent from 4.63 million tallied in October, according to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of weekday moviegoers in South Korea dropped this week under the heightened antivirus curbs during the third wave of the new coronavirus pandemic, data showed Friday. The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) said 83,050 and 60,891 visited theaters on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively, down from 91,175 and 86,091 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of moviegoers in South Korea jumped 55 percent in October from a month earlier thanks to sleeper hits and eased virus fears, a report showed Friday. A total of 4.63 million went to theaters last month, up 1.64 million, or 55 percent, from 2.99 million tallied in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Homegrown summer blockbusters like the zombie apocalypse film “Peninsula” helped South Korean movies see their combined admissions jump nearly 70 percent in July from a month earlier, data showed Thursday. The number of moviegoers who watched South Korean films reached 4.69 million last month, up 68.4 percent from 2.78 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean zombie blockbuster “Peninsula” topped the Canadian box office over the weekend, the film’s distributor here said Tuesday. Released in 48 theaters across Canada last Friday, the sequel to the 2016 sensation “Train to Busan” earned US$120,000 in its first week, according to NEW. Its North American distributing [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Could the living dead bring withering South Korean movie theaters back to life? Two recently released zombie thrillers, “#Alive” and “Peninsula,” are attracting South Korean film buffs to movie theaters, which have been empty for months due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. According to box-office data by the Korean [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of attendees at the South Korean box office during the first half of the year plunged 70 percent on-year, reaching its lowest level since 2005, as cinemas were shunned by the public over concerns of COVID-19 infections, data showed Tuesday. According to the Korean Film Council’s biannual [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — “Peninsula,” director Yeon Sang-ho’s new zombie apocalypse blockbuster, provided a much-needed boost to the South Korean box office over the weekend, attracting nearly 1 million viewers to cinemas hampered by the new coronavirus during the first half of 2020. According to data by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), “Peninsula” [...]