{"id":536029,"date":"2026-06-15T09:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/536029\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T09:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:07:11","slug":"korea-box-office-colony-passes-5-million-admissions-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/536029\/","title":{"rendered":"Korea Box Office: ‘Colony’ Passes 5 Million Admissions Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe local action-horror film \u201cColony<\/a>\u201d held firmly onto the top spot at the South Korean box office during the weekend of Jun. 12\u201314. <\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, the film pulled in $2 million from 301,049 admissions over the three-day frame, capturing a 34.49% revenue share. Directed by Yeon Sang-ho<\/a>, the survival thriller starring Jun Ji-hyun, Koo Kyo-hwan, and Ji Chang-wook features a desperate escape attempt from a mall overrun by an evolving hive-mind viral outbreak. The film has now crossed the 5 million mark, collecting a cumulative haul of $36.3 million from 5,212,820 total admissions since its mid-May launch.<\/p>\n

\n\tRetro music comedy \u201cWild Sing\u201d retained second place, bringing in $1.3 million from 205,104 admissions over the weekend. Directed by Son Jae-gon, the narrative chronicles the turbulent comeback campaign of Triangle, a popular late-1990s dance trio that split at the height of their success due to a sudden scandal. The comedy has secured a total of $5.5 million from 869,724 tickets since its June 3 launch.<\/p>\n

\n\tSteven Spielberg\u2019s sci-fi thriller \u201cDisclosure Day<\/a>\u201d opened in third place, generating $827,660 from 112,387 admissions over the three-day frame. Counting its mid-week preview rollouts, the title has amassed a total of $1.3 million. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBackrooms<\/a>\u201d was in fourth place, bringing in $780,517 over the weekend to take its local box office footprint to a healthy gross of $6.8 million from 976,071 total admissions.<\/p>\n

\n\tMusical biography \u201cMichael\u201d secured fifth place with $195,151. The film has expanded its local earnings to $11.5 million from 1,589,033 tickets. Fantasy-comedy \u201cThe Supernatural Sweet Shop\u201d followed\u00a0in sixth place, bringing in $113,633 from 18,850 tickets over the frame and a cumulative $955,883.<\/p>\n

\n\tKore-eda Hirokazu\u2019s Cannes competition title \u201cSheep in The Box\u201d debuted in seventh place, earning $98,878 from 15,848 tickets.The near-future emotional drama stars Ayase Haruka and Yamamoto Daigo as a grieving married couple who receive a humanoid infant robot designed to look like their late son, forcing both to confront their individual paths of silent grief. The film has brought its early cume to $252,444.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Mandalorian and Grogu\u201d followed in eighth place, capturing $99,020 to reach a local cumulative cume of $1.6 million. A re-release of John Carney\u2019s musical drama \u201cSing Street\u201d landed in ninth place with $56,465, pushing its historical South Korean total lifetime gross to $3.1 million. <\/p>\n

\n\tRounding out the top 10 was the anime \u201cDear My Hero,\u201d which generated $18,175 from 5,500 admissions. Distributed by Nexon and screened exclusively at Lotte Cinema venues, the 32-minute animation is based on the online multiplayer game MapleStory. The story tracks Aidan, a novice recruit joining the Cygnus Knights out of deep admiration for the heroic Adversary, as he learns to overcome his personal insecurities on a brutal fantasy battlefield.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe overall market collective gross for the weekend was $5.4 million, down from last week\u2019s $9.1 million, continuing a steady box office decline. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The local action-horror film \u201cColony\u201d held firmly onto the top spot at the South Korean box office during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[186311,212623,125183,18,117,19,17,327,45856],"class_list":["post-536029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-backrooms","tag-colony","tag-disclosure-day","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-yeon-sang-ho"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116753337286365207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}