SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Overseas inquiries about South Korean movies have been on the rise thanks to the Oscar-winning Korean film “Parasite,” the national film archive said during a forum in Seoul. The Korean Film Archive (KFA) has produced DVDs of major Korean films, ranging from the early years of the 1950s to [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The coronavirus pandemic is affecting the production of films in South Korea as on-location filming schedules have been canceled due to widening travel bans worldwide. The production team of the crime movie “Bogota,” starring Song Joon-ki, has decided to stop shooting at a location in Colombia and return to [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Homegrown films saw a whopping 81.1 percent increase in overall theatrical attendance in March thanks to the release of various genre movies, data showed Thursday. According to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), Korean films made 63.2 billion won (US$59 million) through sales of 7.91 million tickets in local theaters [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Fewer tickets were sold for South Korean movies last month than any February since 2010, data showed Wednesday. According to a report from the Korean Film Council on the domestic film industry’s performance in February, 6.99 million tickets were sold for Korean films. It was a 21.5 percent drop [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Homegrown films dominated the South Korean box office in August while audience amount saw a slight on-year drop, data showed Tuesday. The number of moviegoers last month was 29.88 million, down 0.2 percent from the same month last year, according to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). The August tally [...]