
The First Ride
136th of 194 in Korean Cinema
- 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.
- Cost
- $9M
- Took
- $5M
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?
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
- Kang Ha-neulTae-jeong
- Kim Young-kwangDo-jin
- Cha Eun-wooYeon-min
- Kang Young-sukGeum-bok
- Han Seon-hwaOk-sim
- Ko Kyu-pilThai Park
- Director
- Nam Dae-joong
- Writer
- Nam Dae-joong
- Original Music Composer
- Jeong Sang-woo
- Director of Photography
- Nam Dong-geun
- Producer
- Chang Sung-wook