The theatrical cinema market in South Korea is just about strong enough to sustain a trickle of new release titles, but its continuing weakness points to growing problems in store.
Ticket prices are set to be raised to help ease operators’ losses.New-release crime drama, “Voice of Silence” topped the Korean box office with a quiet $1.47 million score over the weekend, according to data from the Korean Film Council’s Kobis system.
With that lowly score, “Silence” accounted for 45% of the $3.04 million nationwide weekend aggregate.Released by New on Thursday, for a cumulative total is $1.73 million, the film features two men whose job is to clean up crime scenes.
The story develops a growing friendship between one of the men who cannot speak and a kidnapped girl who is left in their charge.“Voice” eased aside “Pawn” which had topped the chart for the two previous weekends, including the busy Chuseok (Korean thanksgiving) weekend.
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