By Pierce Conran Following the busy Lunar New Year holiday, admissions fell to 1.97 admissions over the weekend but the main victims...

By Pierce Conran Business shot up 70% over last week, as 3.88 million holiday spectators flooded the theaters, however that figure was...

By Pierce Conran 2.25 million spectators shuffled into theaters during the weekend before the Lunar New Year holiday, which was better...

By Pierce Conran In the warm up to holidays, 1.81 million people visited theaters as a Korean film reclaimed the top of the charts. L...

Every Friday I appear on a segment called Reel Talk for Arirang TV on the 2 o'clock news, mostly covering Korean cinema. The Lun...

By Pierce Conran Yesterday, JK Youn's Ode to My Father surpassed  The Host (2006) and The Thieves (2012) to become the second m...

By Pierce Conran South Korea's film industry topped the two trillion won mark for the first time in 2014, reaching 2.03 trillion...

By Pierce Conran A Hollywood film topped the Korean box office for the first time in 2015 while a pair of Korean blockbusters battled ...

In its first four days, 20, Once Again! , the Chinese version of Korean hit  Miss Granny , topped China's box office with $19.9 milli...

After four weeks, JK Youn's blockbuster melodrama Ode to My Father joined the 10 million viewer club last night. It is the 11th Kore...

We don't hear much news about Korea's wealth of talented supporting players but here's a nice little tidbit. Character acto...

By Pierce Conran Just shy of midnight on Friday, August 15th, period blockbuster Roaring Currents surpassed Avatar (2009) to become ...

By Pierce Conran Roaring Currents has turned the Korean opening weekend record to rubble with 3.34 million admissions ($25.65 million) ...

By Pierce Conran It was a huge weekend for theaters during this year's Lunar New Year, the biggest in fact, with around five milli...

Despite a major new local release, the Korean film industry was held at bay once again as the pairing of Jeon Do-yeon and Ko Soo wasn...

Slow weekend for local releases with only 26% of the 1.62 million admissions going to domestic industry. Things were much rosier this tim...

With 1.77 million admissions, business was still a little down from this time last year (when admission topped two million) due to a lack...

Business was a bit slow this past weekend as all the holdovers suffered heavy falls and none of the new releases caught fire. 1.85 milli...

Compared with last year, business has been a little down but Korean films are as strong as ever as they commanded a 70% share over the pa...

In the last weekend before many schools start their new terms, business had a last hurrah with 3.24 million tickets sold over the frame, ...