‘Minari’ tops S. Korean box office, expected to get Oscar bump
March 17, 2021
“Minari,” the drama film about a Korean American immigrant family, continued its rally at the South Korean box office and is expected to get a major boost thanks to its six Oscar nominations, including best picture, data showed Wednesday.
The U.S. movie garnered nearly 20,000 moviegoers the previous day, with a total of 531,000, according to the data from the Korean Film Council.
Since its release on March 3, it has not missed the top position for the past 14 days at the local box office.
Also, “Minari” became the third 2021 film that posted more than 500,000 attendees in the virus-hit South Korean film industry, following the Disney-Pixar fantasy “Soul” and the Japanese animated film “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train.”