Korean Box Office: DETECTIVE K 2 Opens Over Original (2015 WK 7)

By Pierce Conran

2.25 million spectators shuffled into theaters during the weekend before the Lunar New Year holiday, which was better than last week but still far behind the comparable weekend last year, when Frozen and Miss Granny led the market. Local films maintained a slim majority with a 50.7% screening share.

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Weekly Review Round-up (11/12-11/18, 2011)

A wide array of films reviewed this week, many due to the just-wrapped London Korean Film Festival.

RECENT RELEASES

A Better Tomorrow

(DVD Verdict, November 17, 2011)

(Rock! Shock! Pop!, November 14, 2011)

Arirang

(SBCC Film Reviews, November 14, 2011)

Bedevilled

(fright.com, November 15, 2011)

City

(Hanguk Yeonghwa, November 15, 2011)

Detective K

(Alive Not Dead, November 12, 2011)

Ghastly

(Nekoneko's Movie Litterbox, November 14, 2011)

Haunters

(Horror Films, November 17, 2011)

Hindsight

(Film Business Asia, November 15, 2011)

I Saw the Devil

(PinoyMovieBlog, November 14, 2011)

King of Pigs

(The Korea Times, November 17, 2011)

Late Autumn

(Otherwhere, November 14, 2011)

Moss

(Init_Scenes, November 14, 2011)

Negligence of Duty

(Hanguk Yeonghwa, November 16, 2011)

Poongsan

(Variety, November 15, 2011 - Paid Subscription Required)

Promise

(Hanguk Yeonghwa, November 15, 2011)

Sector 7

(Dread Central, November 14, 2011)

Secret Reunion

(Next Projection, November 17, 2011)

Suicide Forecast

(London Korea Links, November 12, 2011)

Sunny

(hancinema.net, November 12, 2011)

(Korean Class Massive, November 6, 2011)

The Cat

(Film Business Asia, November 18, 2011)

The Day He Arrives

(Init_Scenes, November 17, 2011)

The Front Line

(heyuguys.co.uk, November 11, 2011)

(Wildgrounds, November 17, 2011)

The Hideout

(Hanguk Yeonghwa, November 16, 2011)

The Unjust

(Eye for Film, November 18, 2011)

The Yellow Sea

(beehivecity.com, November 12, 2011)

(heyuguys.co.uk, November 16, 2011)

(movies reviews by tom clift, November 14, 2011)

War of the Arrows

(Korean Class Massive, November 6, 2011)

PAST FILMS

Handphone, 2009

(Korean Class Massive, November 7, 20110

I'm a Cyborg But That's OK, 2006

(moviefilmreview.com, November 14, 2011)

Rough Cut, 2008

(Next Projection, November 17, 2011)

The Host, 2006

(Ticker Talks Film, November 11, 2011)

The Weekly Review Round-up is a weekly feature which brings together all available reviews of Korean films in the English language (and sometimes French) that have recently appeared on the internet. It is by no means a comprehensive feature and additions are welcome (email pierceconran [at] gmail [dot] com). It appears every Friday morning (GMT+1) on Modern Korean Cinema. For other weekly features, take a look at Korean Cinema News, and the Korean Box Office Update. Reviews and features on Korean film also appear regularly on the site. 

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