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South Korea
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Korea sells 96.9 million cinema tickets in nine months, its best run since the pandemic
Admissions rose 28.8% and revenue passed ₩1tn ($738m) by the end of September, KOFIC says, as The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day carried a quarter in which Korean films lost ground.
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Lee Chang-dong’s short Heartbeat streams on Netflix 4 days before Possible Love
The 28-minute film about a boy racing home to his depressed mother premiered at Jeonju in 2022 and never had a cinema release. Netflix has also added Lee’s six earlier features worldwide.
