alee7915 Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 (edited) South Korea's schools: Long days, high results The results of the international school tests - known as Pisa tests - are to be published by the OECD on Tuesday. In previous years, South Korea has been one of the highest achievers. But it means long hours of study. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25187993 South Korea's students are a lot busier than most students elsewhere in the world and South Korea's Box Office(Local+Foreign Films) is doing well! Edited August 4, 2014 by SUPER GIRL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Wow Roaring Currents is like TF4 in China 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalismanRing Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Wow Roaring Currents is like TF4 in China Bigger if you consider the respective size of the populations 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 As expected, roaring currents passed 6 million admissions at around 9am this morning. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alee7915 Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Wow Roaring Currents is like TF4 in China Sky, are you Korean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 (edited) As expected, roaring currents passed 6 million admissions at around 9am this morning. Adjusted to American population size and average ticket prices it has done the equivalent of passing $350M on the morning of its 7th day of release Edited August 5, 2014 by chasmmi 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Sky, are you Korean?Nope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alee7915 Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 (edited) Nope You are Japanese as you do have cute Pokemon things before! Wait... you also know how to read the Chinese (title for HTTYD2)... Edited August 5, 2014 by SUPER GIRL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 You are Japanese as you do have cute Pokemon things before! Wait... you also know how to read the Chinese (title for HTTYD2)... Singaporean 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alee7915 Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Singaporean This is why you know how to read Chinese... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KushAboveAll Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Singaporean Heyyy. Never thought i would meet another Singaporean 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Heyyy. Never thought i would meet another Singaporean Hi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Heyyy. Never thought i would meet another Singaporean Now all you need to do is decide which of your 7 languages to chat in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KATCH-2D2 Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Adjusted to American population size and average ticket prices it has done the equivalent of passing $350M on the morning of its 7th day of release That's just out of this world. It took the Avengers 10 days to reach 350m. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KushAboveAll Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 That's just out of this world. It took the Avengers 10 days to reach 350m.Now we wait for Roaring Currents 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Now we wait for Roaring Currents 2 Actually Yi sun-sin had 3 major battles the; the battle of myoengnyang, battle of hansan and battle of noryang. With the success of roaring currents, there's already talk of creating a prequel and sequel from the other battles so we may see a roaring currents 2 soon enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimpo Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 So how expensive are those Korean movies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 (edited) So how expensive are those Korean movies? Including marketing costs the total budget for Roaring currents was around $17 million to $18 million. If a film's production+marketing budget exceeds 10 billion korean won (around $9 million) it's considered to be expensive. It might seem like a small budget but since Korean films have to make most or all their money in the Korean film market, it's actually quite a lot. Roaring currents is only now starting to make a profit after hitting 6 million admissions. This is largely due to the distribution of profits among various investment parties at the end of which, only about 35-40% of the total profits return to the studio. Kundo, despite being in the top 10 biggest hits of the year so far, is going to fail to make a profit by the end of it's run because of this. Edited August 5, 2014 by Rsyu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimpo Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 (edited) Looks similar as with Polish movies. Upcoming blockbuster Miasto 44 has a budget of 25 million PLN ( $8.2 million ) and that's top 10 most expensive movies in last 25 years. And they pretty much only have local market and maybe some small release in UK ( they have big polish community there ). Edited August 5, 2014 by chimpo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Coupled to that the DVD market in Korea is essentially Zero meaning a box office bomb will almost never save itself on home video. VOD has gone a little way to rectify this issue though it must be said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
