SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A wave of closures and voluntary retirements has swept across South Korea’s movie theater industry over the past year, as the sector continues to grapple with a prolonged slump in attendance since the COVID-19 pandemic. Once-thriving multiplexes now face a stark new reality—one marked by falling ticket prices, rising [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading cinema chain CJ CGV is introducing a sports climbing gym at CGV Piccadilly 1958 located in Seoul’s Jongno District. The movie theater is being remodeled into a sports facility to cater to the demand for health and diversification of the multiplex industry in the pandemic era. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s multiplex chain GGV said Wednesday that it has suspended its ticket booking service to reduce seating capacities at screenings as part of precautionary measures against the spread of COVID-19. From Tuesday, CGV, a movie theater operating unit of entertainment giant CJ Group, started to sell tickets for [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — At a theater of CGV, a multiplex chain run by South Korea’s entertainment giant CJ Group, in Yeouido, western Seoul, a special and interesting experiment has been carried out: zero-contact cinema. While the novel coronavirus pandemic has kept even film buffs away from theaters for months to avoid possible [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — CGV, South Korea’s largest multiplex chain, said Thursday that it will shut down about 30 percent of its theaters starting this weekend due to the prolonged fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The company, an affiliate of Korean entertainment giant CJ Group, said 35 out of 116 cinemas under its [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — It turns out that the worst film-goers in the movie theater are people who spill popcorn and nachos. Albamon, a recruitment website for part-timers, surveyed 696 part-timers who worked at various movie theaters. The results showed that 85.2 percent of the respondents said ‘yes’ when asked if they had [...]
TAEAN, Mar. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Taean County in South Chungcheong Province announced on Monday that its ‘Little Theater’ had surpassed 100,000 viewers in 17 months since its opening. The movie theater, which opened in September 2017, has now welcomed a total of 101,111 viewers. Covering an area of 323.52㎡, there are two screening rooms, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Last weekend, a unique new movie hall was the talk of town on social media sites. The cinema that sparked great interest among the public is “Cine and Foret,” a new movie theater that opened at CGV’s existing Gangbyeon branch. CJ CGV, the largest multiplex cinema chain in South [...]
SEOUL, Feb.26 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ CGV has announced that it will be modifying its movie ticket prices based on the seats and time of screening. Movie tickets will differ in price depending on where the seats are located, just like concerts, musicals, operas and sports tickets. In addition, each day will be divided into [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – As Koreans have started to see holidays as simply a ‘day off’, sales at amusement parks and businesses related to traveling have greatly increased. KB Kookmin Card analyzed big data related to the average daily sales of travel and entertainment businesses during the Chuseok holidays (Korean Thanksgiving) and the [...]