Korea’s box office reached 70% of pre-pandemic levels of revenue in the first half of 2023, according to data released by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). Korean action film The Roundup ...

South Korean cinema last year squeezed out a gain of 14% compared with 2020, but 2021’s major box office honors went to foreign movies, not the normally dominant local film sector. Aggregate ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Vos MacDonald ... it opened at the top of the local box office. Anticipated December releases include Seo Bok, starring ...

DreamWorks’ 'How to Train Your Dragon' topped the South Korean box office over the June 6–8 weekend with $4 million.

Korea primarily uses admissions to measure box-office performance, and only 10 films have ever managed to reach 10 million admissions, or a fifth of the country’s population of 50 million.

Korea uses admissions as the primary measure of box-office success, and the 10,000-admission mark is considered a blockbuster performance for indie and art-house works in a country with a ...

Box office revenue in March 2020 was down 88% on 2019, at $12.4M. Korea in 2019 was the world’s 5th biggest market with a strong local business. This year so far it is in 8th place. Last week ...

South Korean police said on Wednesday that they had found evidence that the box office performance of 323 films over the past five years had been inflated. Seoul Metropolitan Police said that ...

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Pixar animation film “Elemental” expanded at the South Korean box office in its third weekend of release and easily bested new release title “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” ...

according to Korea Box Office Information System, — an unusual feat for a low-budget production. "The Pact" is not an isolated phenomenon. Recent months have witnessed a surge in politically themed ...