Korea Weekend Box Office - Dec. 15-17

Now this is more like it -- after a pretty long, barren spell, we finally got some life in the box office this week. November was down 11.6% from last year, and the first couple weekends in December were looking pretty bad, too. But 200-POUND BEAUTY opened in No. 1 last weekend with nearly 1 million admissions. Nice.

The Jack Black-Cameron Diaz holiday comedy, THE HOLIDAY, also did pretty decent debut business, with 452,000 admissions (nearly what CYBORG did last week... better in Seoul, in fact).

In third, Uhm Jung-hwa and Daniel Henney showed a bit of staying power for SEDUCING MR. PERFECT. Although it opened a little behind CYBORG, MR. PERFECT has shown better legs, landing ahead of the Park Chan-wook film this week.

(Interesting note I just found out about -- Lotte Cinema distributed MR. PERFECT, but in order to do so, they had to make a package deal for THE OLD GARDEN, the latest Im Sung-soo film, which comes out on Jan 4.)

But with so many films opening this week, I do not expect much of this top-10 list will be around seven days from now. It should be quite the bloodbath at the box office.

This Week	Title........................................	Release Date	Screens Nationwide	Weekend Attendance (Seoul only)	Total Attendance
1.	200-Pound Beauty	12.14	473	195,200	924,400
2.	The Holiday	12.14	242	133,000	452,000
3.	Seducing Mr. Perfect	12.07	303	41,600	651,500
4.	I'm a Cyborg, But That's Okay	12.07	280	40,000	704,000
5.	The World of Silence	12.14	194	30,900	140,800
6.	Sunflower	11.23	212	25,500	1,476,200
7.	Just Friends	12.07	137	21,500	231,300
8.	Pan's Labyrinth	11.30	118	15,100	514,500
9.	Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D	12.07	26	6,200	48,400
10.	Saw 3	11.30	76	3,300	428,200

(Source: Film2.0)