'Hope' is on a roll at the Korean box office. Viewers are arguing over what they just watched
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Quick summary- 1Na Hong-jin's big-budget creature farce blew past 2 million admissions Sunday afternoon, five days into its run and faster than any film released this year, ac…
- 2Everyone is talking about "Hope." Nobody seems to agree on it.
- 3Its running total sto
Everyone is talking about "Hope." Nobody seems to agree on it. Na Hong-jin's big-budget creature farce blew past 2 million admissions Sunday afternoon, five days into its run and faster than any film released this year, according to Korean Film Council data. Its running total stood at 2,129,723 as of Monday morning. That pace beats "The King's Warden," which opened earlier this year and went on to sell 16.9 million tickets, becoming the highest-grossing Korean film ever made. It also outruns Yeo
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