[HanCinema's News] "The Roundup: Punishment" Leads May 2024 to Being the Best May Ever at South Korean Box Office

According to figures recently released by the Korean Film Council, the South Korean box office in May of this year brought in eighty million dollars of revenue. Some 64.2% of this revenue was dedicated to domestic South Korean films, and 64.9% of the viewers watched domestic South Korean films. Normally these numbers stand at around 50% but the popularity of "The Roundup: Punishment" throughout May greatly elevated these figures.

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"The Roundup: Punishment" alone earned about forty two million dollars of revenue of the fifty one million dollars earned by South Korean films in that month overall. "The Roundup: Punishment" had similarly dominant numbers for spectators, with the action cop film having 6.17 million viewers of 7.37 million viewers who watched South Korean films that month. Foreign films also had very low figures this month, with earnings only 42.6% and viewers at 36.8% of the prepandemic average.

Written by William Schwartz