SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — With the year 2019 having just passed the halfway point, the South Korean film industry is eying the possibility of four movies posting more than 10 million admissions, considered a huge box-office success in a country with a population of about 52 million. Comedy film “Extreme Job” opened in [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Walt Disney’s live-action musical fantasy film “Aladdin” is making a remarkable rally at the South Korean box office, where the Palme d’Or-winning “Parasite” has been dominant for the last two weeks. Since its release in May, it has been the underdog at the local box office after Bong Joon-ho’s [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — “Avengers: Endgame” became the most-watched foreign film in South Korean history, with over 13.33 million admissions Sunday, its distributor said. The latest Marvel superhero flick set the record at around noon, Walt Disney Company Korea said based on a real-time box-office tally from the Korean Film Council. The previous [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean comedy film “Extreme Job” surpassed 10 million in attendance on the 15th day of its run, becoming the first movie this year to reach that milestone, data showed Wednesday. According to the Korean Film Council data, “Extreme Job” recorded 10,004,087 for its cumulative tally of views at [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea replaced England to rank second at the world box office for “Bohemian Rhapsody”, a biopic based on the true story of Freddie Mercury and Queen. 20th Century Fox Korea, the distributor of the film, revealed that South Korean sales reached $61.1 million as of Monday, exceeding England’s [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – “Bohemian Rhapsody” has become the most successful music film ever in South Korea after smashing box office records last weekend. The film’s distributor, 20th Century Fox Korea, announced on Sunday that the movie has attracted more than 6 million viewers. “Les Misérables”, a 2012 movie that sold 5.92 million [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The blockbuster Jurassic franchise has churned out yet another huge hit with the new release “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.” On the first day of its worldwide debut yesterday in South Korea, more than 1 million moviegoers flocked to theaters. According to numbers released by the Korean Film Council, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean movie about a cabbie who took a German journalist to the center of the Gwangju pro-democracy uprising in 1980 became this year’s first film to attract more than 10 million moviegoers Sunday, its distributor said. “A Taxi Driver,” released Aug. 2, became the 15th Korean movie and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean film about a pro-democracy uprising in the country has surpassed 6.5 million in attendance as of the 11th day of its run, the film’s distributor said Saturday. “A Taxi Driver” hit the threshold Friday, becoming the fastest film to reach the milestone this year, according to Showbox. [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Tom Cruise wielded unrivaled influence on the South Korean box office over the weekend. His new action blockbuster “The Mummy” topped the weekend box office, drawing 1.128 million cinemagoers to 1,254 screens around the country, according to figures from the Korean Film Council (KOFIC).’ The movie’s accumulated ticket sales [...]