Korea Weekend Box Office - Nov. 17-19

Another dreary week at the box office here in South Korea. The top film, HOW THE LACK OF LOVE AFFECTS TWO MEN, won the No. 1 spot with just 281,500 in attendance (about $1.87 million), one of the lowest figures for a No. 1 film in quite a while. But it was nice to see iHQ have one of its films open at the top of the box office. iHQ has been through a long streak of disappointments, so hopefully this will be the start of something good.

Interesting to see DEVIL WEARS PRADA and PRESTIGE holding on to the Nos. 2 and 3 spots for another week, especially while last week's No. 1, LOVE ME NOT, plummeted to No. 6.

TAZZA is pretty much finished, with 6.77 million tickets ($44.90 million), making it the seventh-biggest film in Korean history. Not a bad run at all.

Just three more days until THE DEPARTED opens in Korea. Much nerdy joy on my part.

This Week	Title........................................	Release Date	Screens Nationwide	Weekend Attendance (Seoul only)	Total Attendance
1.	How the Lack of Love Affects Two Men	11.16	321	63,400	281,500
2.	The Devil Wears Prada	10.26	169	57,800	1,509,400
3.	The Prestige	11.02	104	50,400	571,600
4.	Sexy Teacher	11.16	266	42,000	221,000
5.	A Good Year	11.16	200	39,600	131,800
6.	Love Me Not	11.09	261	29,200	506,500
7.	Cruel Winter Blues	11.09	296	26,300	484,800
8.	Death Note	11.02	187	25,000	712,000
9.	The Grudge 2	11.16	171	19,500	107,400
10.	Tazza: The High Rollers	9.27	89	18,000	6,769,000

(Source: Film2.0)