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Korea Box Office: ‘Executioner’ Claims Fifth Weekend Win as Market Slumps to Lowest Point This Year


‘I, The Executioner’ claim a fifth weekend win at the South Korea box office as the overall market slumped further.

Korean-made crime-comedy-thriller “ I The Executioner,” a sequel to 2015 hit ‘Veteran,” continued to top South Korea ’s weekend box office. The latest figures are in line with some of the gloomy discussion at the recently-concluded Busan International Film Festival, where the difficulties currently faced by theatrical cinema and the companies that supply and distribute it, were major talking points. “I, The Executioner” earned $1.08 million in its fifth full weekend session, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic).

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