Skip to content
Resono
Friends on board.

The First Ride

Korean Cinema20251h 57mKoreanTop 48% of Korean Cinema budgets
37Standing

136th of 194 in Korean Cinema

Reported gross
27
Return on budget
14
Audience rating
44
Momentum
64
  • Out-grossed 27% of Korean Cinema releases with reported figures ($5M).
  • Returned 0.6× its budget, against an industry median of 2.4×.
  • Momentum in the 64th percentile.
  • Audience rating 6.8 from 12 votes, the 44th percentile.
The full Korean Cinema leaderboard
Cost
$9M
Took
$5M
Flop0.6× its cost

Against a Korean Cinema median of 2.4×, so this one returned 0.3 times what a typical release there does.

The money says flop. What do you say?

The picture

Four lifelong friends who have known each other since childhood have always dreamed of taking an epic trip abroad together, but the responsibilities of adulthood kept getting in the way. Finally, in their thirties, the group—including a perfectionist elite, a basketball-obsessed dreamer, a DJ, and a religious enthusiast—manages to book a trip to Thailand. Their 'perfect' getaway is immediately derailed when an uninvited, high-spirited guest named Ok-sim joins them. What follows is a chaotic series of misadventures involving language barriers, travel mishaps, and hilariously absurd detours that test their friendship and force them to rediscover the bond that made them inseparable for 24 years.

Released
29 October 2025
Runtime
1h 57m
Language
Korean
Industry
Korean Cinema
Made by
Original Music Composer
Jeong Sang-woo
Director of Photography
Nam Dong-geun
Filed under
AdventureComedy

Every Korean Cinema film of 2025: hits and flops