Do not dare to leave.
Salmokji: Whispering Water
60Standing
62nd of 194 in Korean Cinema
- Out-grossed 58% of Korean Cinema releases with reported figures ($17M).
- Returned 8.6× its budget, against an industry median of 2.4×.
- Momentum in the 90th percentile.
- Audience rating 6.1 from 31 votes, the 16th percentile.
- Cost
- $2M
- Took
- $17M
Blockbuster8.6× its cost
Against a Korean Cinema median of 2.4×, so this one returned 3.6 times what a typical release there does.
The money says blockbuster. What do you say?
The picture
An incident unfolds when a film crew goes to a reservoir to update the road view where an unidentified figure was filmed, and they encounter something in the dark, deep waters.
- Released
- 8 April 2026
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Language
- Korean
- Industry
- Korean Cinema
Top billedAll 22 credits
- Kim Hye-yoonHan Su-in
- Lee Jong-wonYoon Ki-tae
- Kim Jun-hanWoo Gyo-sik
- Kim Young-sungSong Gyeong-tae
- Oh Dong-minSong Gyeong-jun
- Yoon Jae-chanJang Seong-bin
Made by
- Director
- Lee Sang-min
- Writer
- Lee Sang-min
- Original Music Composer
- Kim Ji-hye, Lee Ji-hyang, Jung Na-hyun
- Director of Photography
- Kim Sung-an
- Producer
- Park Un-kyoung
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