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Merry Christmas Rsyu and thanks for the best updated thread around :lol:

Indeed. This thread was much more interesting and entertaining to follow than the domestic in some ocassions to me. Plus, its one of the few foreign countries that follows its box office daily

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South Korea Daily Box Office (December 25)

 

--Admissions                     (Total Adm)           Daily%                     Gross                (weekly%)               [sC]                        <Title>

 

01. 538,271                      (2,851,178)         +60.4%                   $3.889M              (+171%)              [775]               <Ode to my father> 

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02. 418,057                         (756,349)         +52.3%                   $2.978M                   (--)                   [613]                <The Con Artists> 
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03. 268,537                      (1,923,022)         +85.9%                   $2.152M             (+76.4%)              [518]         <The Battle of the Five Armies> 
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04. 259,737                      (3,038,256)         +72.5%                   $1.898M             (+85.1%)              [565]         <My love don't cross that river> 
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05. 178,657                         (305,864)         +64.6%                   $1.259M                   (--)                   [447]                <The Royal Tailor>

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10.   17,360                    (10,007,859)         +25.5%                      $130K              (-13.6%)               [143]                    <Interstellar>

 

Total admissions: 2,046,416

Total Gross: $14.781 million

 

Interstellar cume: $73.339 million 

The Battle of the five armies cume: $15.066 million

Ode to my father cume: $19.877 million
The Con artists cume: $5.306 million
 
Current presales (Midnight)
01. 32.1% (191,361) Ode to my father
02. 14.1%   (84,138) The Battle of the Five Armies
03. 12.9%   (76,703) The Con Artists
04. 11.3%   (67,212) My love don't cross that river
05.   8.5%   (50,431) The Royal Tailor
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Christmas day is always massive for the theatres and this year was no exception. Ode to my father saw a solid rise and is showing great word of mouth. 5 million admissions will happen easily. The Battle of the five armies moved ahead into 3rd place again and is pretty much locked to become the highest grossing/attended film of the hobbit series. My love don't cross that river crossed 3 million admissions to become the most attended documentary film ahead of Old Partner. It should beat Begin again's score of 3.43M admissions to become the most successful arthouse film before the end of the week. 

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South Korea Daily Box Office (December 26)

 

-Admissions  (Total Adm)   Daily%   Gross    (weekly%)  [sC] <Title>

 

1. 329,954   (3,185,956) -39.3% $2.365M  (+36.6%)  [808] <Ode to my father> 

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2. 165,271      (926,368) -60.9% $1.171M      (--)        [626] <The Con Artists> 
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3. 127,866   (3,167,387-51.0% $0.912M  (-22.8%)   [519] <My love don't cross that river> 
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4. 101,330   (2,025,741) -62.5%    $807K   (-46.7%)   [509] <The Battle of the Five Armies> 
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5.   66,015      (372,966) -63.3%    $484K       (--)        [451] <The Royal Tailor>

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6.   39,033      (214,757) -75.3%    $256K       (--)        [342] <The Snow Queen 2>

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8.   17,196 (10,025,442) -3.10%    $136K   (-35.6%)   [152] <Interstellar>

 

Total admissions: 915,374

Total Gross: $6.572 million

 

The Snow queen 2 cume: 1.436

Interstellar cume: $73.475 million 

The Battle of the five armies cume: $15.873 million

Ode to my father cume: $22.242 million
The Con artists cume: $6.477 million
 
Current presales (Midnight)
01. 36.2% (285,499) Ode to my father
02. 12.7% (100,125) The Con Artists
03. 12.3%   (96,876) The Battle of the Five Armies
04. 11.5%   (91,078) My love don't cross that river
05.   7.8%   (61,772) The Snow Queen 2
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The Hobbit series comparisons (admissions)

 

>An Unexpected Journey 

Second week (Mon-Fri): 592,107

Lifetime: 1,673,555

 

>Desolation of Smaug

Second week (Mon-Fri): 369,903

Lifetime: 1,340,756

 

>The battle of the five armies

Second week (Mon-Fri): 705,848

Lifetime: 2,026,066

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South Korea Daily Box Office (December 27)

 

-Admissions  (Total Adm)   Daily%   Gross    (weekly%)  [sC] <Title>

 

1. 535,573   (3,725,267) +60.5% $3.875M (+20.9%)  [938] <Ode to my father> 

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2. 250,650   (1,180,291) +48.7% $1.797M      (--)        [609] <The Con Artists> 
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3. 191,546   (3,359,887+48.7% $1.391M  (-36.8%)   [526] <My love don't cross that river> 
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4. 161,801   (2,188,668) +57.9% $1.288M  (-61.1%)   [491] <The Battle of the Five Armies> 
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5.   91,727      (465,550) +37.2%    $698K       (--)        [443] <The Royal Tailor>

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9.   20,298 (10,046,097) +15.6%    $158K   (-56.0%)   [150] <Interstellar>

 

Total admissions: 1,434,392

Total Gross: $10.4 million

 

The Snow queen 2 cume: $1.997 million

Interstellar cume: $73.633 million 

The Battle of the five armies cume: $17.161 million

Ode to my father cume: $26.117 million
The Con artists cume: $8.274 million
 
Current presales (Midnight)
01. 38.6% (255,607) Ode to my father
02. 12.9%   (85,333) The Con Artists
03. 12.0%   (79,428) my love don't cross that river
04. 10.1%   (66,816) The battle of the five armies
05.   6.9%   (45,759) The royal tailor
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South Korea Daily Box Office (December 28)

 

-Admissions  (Total Adm)  Daily%   Gross    (weekly%)  [sC] <Title>

 

1. 547,251   (4,278,214) +1.1% $3.964M (+20.5%)  [952] <Ode to my father> 

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2. 237,325   (1,421,414)  -6.7% $1.712M      (--)        [605] <The Con Artists> 
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3. 188,547   (3,549,777)  -2.3% $1.374M  (-36.7%)   [527] <My love don't cross that river> 
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4. 147,069   (2,337,547)  -9.9% $1.164M  (-60.4%)   [478] <The Battle of the Five Armies> 
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5.   84,646      (551,218)  -8.7%    $632K       (--)        [430] <The Royal Tailor>

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9.   17,937 (10,064,619) -13.9%   $134K  (-60.2%)   [153] <Interstellar>

 

Total admissions: 1,394,993

Total Gross: $10.1 million

 

The Snow queen 2 cume: $2.536 million

Interstellar cume: $73.797 million 

The Battle of the five armies cume: $18.325 million

Ode to my father cume: $30.08 million
The Con artists cume: $9.986 million
 
Current presales (Midnight)
01. 33.3% (103,324) Ode to my father
02. 13.1%   (40,813) The Con Artists
03.    9.3%   (28,925) my love don't cross that river
04.    9.0%   (27,839) The Royal Tailor
05.    7.0%   (21,658) The Snow Queen 2
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With 3 more days of 2014 left the years total admissions stands at 212,372,440. 2013 admissions was 213,348,254 so 2014 needs 975,814 admissions more to record the biggest year on record. It's safe to say that this will happen. 

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Every year I say South Korea probably reached its peak and will decrease in admissions and every year I'm wrong, how far can this market go?

You can use demographic and economic data to predict that the market will eventually drop off. But that is a long term prediction, it won't work nearly as well for year to year predictions. This is especially true since the population is still growing, something that should change eventually considering the birth rates.

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Every year I say South Korea probably reached its peak and will decrease in admissions and every year I'm wrong, how far can this market go?

 

While admissions have stayed relatively flat, it's interesting that gross has increased more noticeably from the previous year. This year the total revenue from all films stands at 1.645 trillion won compared to 1.551 trillion won from 2013. That's a 6% increase which is nothing to be sneezed at. Basically this means that the overall hike in the average ticket prices has driven gross growth this year. Ticket prices break down like this:

 

2013 average ticket price

local films: 7,149 won

foreign films: 7,452 won

 

2014 average ticket price

local films: 7,627 won

foreign films: 7,862 won

 

I don't think admissions will fluctuate all that much going forward. The network of theatre chains are pretty well established nationwide and unless something changes drastically in the socio-cultural landscape the behaviour pattern of movie goers isn't likely to change all that much. There will be strong years and weak years and differences based on that but no major fluctuations. Any future gross growth is more likely to come from inflation of ticket prices which is very likely to happen. 

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You can use demographic and economic data to predict that the market will eventually drop off. But that is a long term prediction, it won't work nearly as well for year to year predictions. This is especially true since the population is still growing, something that should change eventually considering the birth rates.

 

You're right :)

 

 

While admissions have stayed relatively flat, it's interesting that gross has increased more noticeably from the previous year. This year the total revenue from all films stands at 1.645 trillion won compared to 1.551 trillion won from 2013. That's a 6% increase which is nothing to be sneezed at. Basically this means that the overall hike in the average ticket prices has driven gross growth this year. Ticket prices break down like this:

 

2013 average ticket price

local films: 7,149 won

foreign films: 7,452 won

 

2014 average ticket price

local films: 7,627 won

foreign films: 7,862 won

 

I don't think admissions will fluctuate all that much going forward. The network of theatre chains are pretty well established nationwide and unless something changes drastically in the socio-cultural landscape the behaviour pattern of movie goers isn't likely to change all that much. There will be strong years and weak years and differences based on that but no major fluctuations. Any future gross growth is more likely to come from inflation of ticket prices which is very likely to happen. 

 

Indeed, that's the most likely. I can see SK being like France : a strong market but a relatively stagnant one over the long term, SK is a pretty mature market now after all, and even stagnation would be fine because SK is already huge for a market with just 50 million people.

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South Korea Daily Box Office (December 29)

 

-Admissions  (Total Adm)  Daily%   Gross    (weekly%)  [sC] <Title>

 

1. 280,070   (4,561,742) -49.1% $1.883M (+36.9%)  [877] <Ode to my father> 

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2. 102,784   (1,526,513) -57.1%   $694K        (--)       [581] <The Con Artists> 
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3.   88,521   (3,639,046) -53.2%   $586K   (-23.0%)  [514] <My love don't cross that river> 
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4.   52,639   (2,391,043) -64.4%   $378K   (-47.1%)  [460] <The Battle of the Five Armies> 
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5.   45,643      (597,464) -46.5%   $307K        (--)      [434] <The Royal Tailor>

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9.   11,359 (10,076,275) -37.7%     $82K   (-41.3%)  [148] <Interstellar>

 

Total admissions: 694,350

Total Gross: $4.659 million

 

The Snow queen 2 cume: $2.818 million

Interstellar cume: $73.879 million 

The Battle of the five armies cume: $18.703 million

Ode to my father cume: $31.963 million
The Con artists cume: $10.68 million
 
Current presales (Midnight)
01. 36.4% (151,152) Ode to my father
02. 11.3%   (46,970) The Con Artists
03.    8.1%   (33,540) my love don't cross that river
04.    7.6%   (31,665) Penguins of Madagascar
05.    6.6%   (27,506) The Royal Tailor
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