During the Lunar New Year vacation, Korean flicks ‘Pirates: Goblin Flag’ (directed by Kim Jeong-hoon) and ‘Kingmaker’ (directed by Byeon Seong-hyeon) are expected to quadruple in box office receipts.
On the 29th, according to the Film Promotion Committee’s integrated computer network for movie theatre tickets, ‘Pirates: The Goblin Flag,’ which was released on the 26th, had 64,546 people on 1,654 screens the day before and had taken the top place at the box office for three days in a row. This picture had a total audience of 232,175.
The previous day, ‘Kingmaker,’ which was released on the same day as ‘Pirates: Goblin Flag,’ had 36,429 people seated, putting it in second place for three days in a row at the box office. The total number of people in attendance is 126,644.
The sequel to ‘Pirates: The Bandit Who Went to Sea,’ which received 8.66 million viewers in 2014, is ‘Pirates: Goblin Flag.’ The action scenes that take place in the sea are exciting. Han Hyo-joo, Kang Ha-neul, and Lee Kwang-soo are among the cast members.
‘Kingmaker’ is a political comedy based on the actual tale of Eom Chang-rok, who worked as an election strategist for both President Park Chung-hee and opposition candidate Kim Dae-jung during the presidential election in April 1971. Lee Seon-kyun portrayed the election strategist ‘Seo Chang-dae’ and Seol Kyung-gu played the opposition candidate ‘Kim Woon-beom’.