SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of moviegoers edged down this summer from a year ago, but Korean cinemas earned much more thanks to higher admission prices and the growing popularity of more expensive formats, data showed Monday. Korean cinemas sold a total of 34.43 million tickets during the peak summer season from [...]
BUSAN, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The former site of the Busan National Maritime High School in the city’s Yeongdo-gu neighborhood is suffering from an influx of trespassers looking for a taste of the occult after a series of horror flicks were filmed there. The grounds remain closed to the public after the school relocated [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – “Okja,” South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to smash-hit “Snowpiercer,” will be released in Korean theaters on June 29 for an open run, its American investor and local distributor said on Monday. “Okja will be available on Netflix in 190 countries on June 28 in the U.S., but actually [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Director Damien Chazelle’s La La Land has once again proved the love that Koreans have for musical films, with over 2 million tickets sold as of Tuesday afternoon; that is 16 days faster than Begin Again, which was the last musical film to attract more than 2 million moviegoers [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of admissions to local theaters this year is expected to surpass 200 million for the fourth straight year, a market tracker said Monday. According to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), both domestic and foreign films have attracted more than 199.31 million viewers this year as of Monday [...]
JAKARTA, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – There’s a new hallyu (Korean wave) trend surging in Indonesia. Locals are using Korean elements to produce their own versions of cultural content. It’s a new step forward from the existing hallyu phenomenon in which the public consumes pure content exported from Korea. According to the Korean Cultural Center in [...]