Chiikawa keeps South Korea’s weekend lead with 149,050 admissions
Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island led South Korea’s November 6–8 box office with 149,050 admissions. Final Interview opened in second place with 104,476 tickets sold. The Japanese animation retained its lead despite playing fewer screenings than the new thriller. The Korean Film Council’s provisional figures put Chiikawa’s cumulative audience at 2,788,843.
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The Japanese animation stays first in Korea
Japanese animation Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island led South Korea’s cinema chart over November 6–8 with 149,050 admissions. The film played on 977 screens and finished ahead of new corporate thriller Final Interview, which sold 104,476 tickets on 957 screens. The figures come from the Korean Film Council’s KOBIS ticket-sales service and remain provisional, subject to correction. The chart covers the same three-day weekend for both releases.[1], [2]
Chiikawa sells more tickets with fewer screenings
Chiikawa had 8,384 screenings, compared with 9,350 for Final Interview. FilmBunch calculated averages of 17.8 admissions per screening for the animation and 11.2 for its rival, using the national table. These figures measure tickets per screening; seating capacity is needed to calculate occupancy. Chiikawa’s weekend ticket lead was 44,574. Screen counts in the Korean service represent each film’s highest daily count during the period, rather than the sum across the three days.[2]
The two films are at different points in their runs
Chiikawa opened in South Korea on September 30 and has now reached 2,788,843 admissions in total. Directed by Kei Oikawa, it adapts Nagano’s manga. Final Interview began its run on November 4 and has accumulated 166,796 admissions. Kim Jung-hoon directed that adaptation of Akinari Asakura’s novel, about finalists competing for one corporate job. The new thriller’s opening weekend therefore faced an animation already several weeks into its Korean release.[1], [2]
