South Korea’s weekend box office saw the local comedy remake “The Intern” top admissions while Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” earned the highest revenue.
South Korean box‑office data from KOBIS show that the locally produced comedy‑drama remake “The Intern” led the weekend of Sept. 18‑20 in ticket admissions, drawing 275,183 tickets across 1,428 screens and generating about $1.9 million, representing roughly 26% of the market share for admissions. By contrast, Christopher Nolan’s holdover epic “The Odyssey” earned the most revenue, grossing $2.3 million on 256,789 admissions from 1,253 screens, accounting for about 30.7% of total weekend box‑office revenue.
The remainder of the top‑ten included “Obsession” in third place with $1 million from 131,467 admissions, “Resident Evil” fourth with $623,228 from 80,779 tickets, “Spider‑Man: Brand New Day” fifth with $214,082 from 33,636 admissions, and anime titles such as “Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island” and “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” occupying sixth and seventh places respectively. Additional entries were the double‑feature “Digimon Adventure & Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!” in eighth, “The Drama” in ninth, and the gambling thriller “Tazza: The Song of Beelzebub” in tenth.
Since its wide release on Sept. 16, “The Intern” has accumulated 403,903 admissions and a total gross of $2.8 million. “The Odyssey” has risen to a cumulative gross of $91.1 million from 11,217,639 tickets since its Aug. 5 launch. The article does not provide further data beyond the reported weekend figures.