‘The Assassin(s)’ Tops Korea’s Chuseok Holiday Box Office With 1.5 Million Admissions — SkimNews
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- The Assassin(s) topped Korea's Chuseok holiday box office with 1,546,614 admissions and $11.3M (KRW 15.3BN) over five days since its September 23 release, per KOFIC data
- Tazza: The Song of Beelzebub, a long-awaited gambling-franchise sequel, opened second with $6M from 813,842 admissions over the same window
- The Odyssey placed third with another $5M, pushing its Korean total to $98M from 11.7 million admissions — the biggest import in Korea this year
- The Intern, Warner Bros Korea's remake starring Choi Min-sik and Han So-hee, took fourth with $2.6M for a total of $5.5M since September 16
- Possible Love, Lee Chang-dong's Netflix-backed Venice winner and Korea's official Best International Feature Oscar submission, debuted to roughly $1M in its first five days
- The King's Warden remains Korea's top film year-to-date at $120M from 16.9 million admissions, ahead of The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day ($69M from 9M admissions)
Why it matters: The Assassin(s) leveraged a Toronto premiere and an all-star Korean cast (Lee Min-ho, Park Hae-il, Yoo Hai-jin) to dominate a holiday frame, but the far quieter debut of Possible Love — Korea's Oscar submission and a Venice winner — at just $1M suggests prestige festival cachet does not automatically translate to local ticket sales in a holiday weekend crowded with star-driven genre titles.
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