Korean Cinema hits and flops, 2025

Every Korean Cinema film released in 2025 with a cost and a gross on record, graded on gross against cost six weeks after release. Blockbuster is three times its cost and up, hit is one and a half, average is one, and anything under one is a flop. 18 of the year's releases have both figures.

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#	Film	Cost	Took	Return	Verdict
1	Noise2025-06-25	$3M	$12M	4.9×	Blockbuster
2	My Daughter Is a Zombie2025-07-30	$8M	$38M	4.7×	Blockbuster
3	No Other Choice2025-09-24	$12M	$40M	3.3×	Blockbuster
4	Hitman 22025-01-22	$6M	$18M	2.9×	Hit
5	Yadang: The Snitch2025-04-16	$10M	$25M	2.6×	Hit
6	Lobby2025-04-02	$8M	$17M	2.1×	Hit
7	Once We Were Us2025-12-31	$7M	$14M	2.1×	Hit
8	The Match2025-03-26	$11M	$15M	1.3×	Average
9	Dark Nuns2025-01-24	$9M	$12M	1.3×	Average
10	Hi-Five2025-05-30	$14M	$14M	1.0×	Flop
11	Choir of God2025-12-31	$6M	$5M	0.9×	Flop
12	The First Ride2025-10-29	$9M	$5M	0.6×	Flop
13	Boss2025-10-03	$7M	$4M	0.6×	Flop
14	Pretty Crazy2025-08-13	$5M	$3M	0.6×	Flop
15	Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy2025-07-23	$20M	$9M	0.5×	Flop
16	The Old Woman with the Knife2025-04-30	$8M	$4M	0.5×	Flop
17	Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning2025-02-21	$10M	$3M	0.3×	Flop
18	Streaming2025-03-21	$5M	$678K	0.2×	Flop

The method, in full

How a verdict is reached

Blockbuster: Gross of at least 3× cost and up what the film cost to make.
Hit: Gross of at least 1.5× what the film cost to make.
Average: Gross of at least 1× what the film cost to make.
Flop: Anything that did not return its cost. under 1×.

Budget and gross as reported on TMDB A film is graded 42 days after release, so a run still in cinemas is not called early, and a film with no budget on record cannot be graded at all.