SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean historical drama “Harbin” has maintained its position at the top of the box office for a third consecutive weekend, attracting over 4 million viewers. The film drew an additional 308,000 viewers from Friday to Sunday, bringing its cumulative admissions to 4.18 million, according to data from the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean historical drama film “Harbin” has been sold to 117 countries, its distributor said Wednesday. “It is meaningful in that the movie with a distinctly Korean narrative achieved successful international sales,” CJ ENM said in a press release. The movie has already premiered in several markets, including the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean historical drama “Harbin” has claimed the top spot at the box office during its opening weekend, drawing more than 2 million moviegoers. The film attracted an additional 903,000 viewers from Friday to Sunday, bringing its cumulative total to 2.39 million admissions, according to data from the Korean [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The historical drama “Harbin” dominated the local box office on Christmas Day, setting a new post-pandemic record for holiday attendance, its distributor said Thursday. The film drew 847,819 moviegoers on the day, reaching a cumulative audience of 1.25 million within just two days of its release, according to CJ [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean historical drama “Harbin” has garnered over 550,000 advance ticket reservations, signaling strong potential for box-office success. Approximately 554,000 tickets have been booked for the film as of 8:50 a.m. Tuesday, the release day, accounting for 56.2 percent of all advance ticket sales for movies currently showing in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The assassination of Ito Hirobumi, Japan’s first prime minister and resident-general of Korea, by the iconic Korean independence activist Ahn Jung-geun in 1909 is a historical moment familiar to most Koreans. The period drama film “Harbin” infuses this event with cinematic imagination, transforming it into a spy thriller. Set [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean spy movie “Harbin,” starring Hyun Bin, is set to premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival in September, the movie’s distributor said Wednesday. The espionage thriller has been officially invited to the festival, slated for Sept. 5-15, as part of the Gala Presentations, for its deep, [...]
HARBIN, China, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — China plans to double the size of a memorial hall honoring a revered Korean independence hero who assassinated a prominent Japanese colonial leader more than a century ago in China, the memorial hall’s officials said Wednesday. Chinese railway authorities opened the memorial hall earlier last year honoring the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — China succeeded in artificially breeding 70 Siberian Tiger cubs this year, according to Xinhua. The Heilongjiang Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin added more than 70 cubs to its population this year during the breeding season in May and June. The zoo will let the cubs stay with their mothers for 100 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean musical “Hero” was performed at Huanqiu Theater, China National Convention Center in Harbin, China on February 7 and 8, according to the Harbin Daily on February 8. The musical tells the story of independence activist Ahn Jung-geun, who assassinated Ito Hirobumi, the four-time Prime Minister of Japan, [...]