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SEOUL,September 2 (Yonhap) -- The comedy movie "6/45" is expected to lead the weekend box office.
According to KOBIS: KOREA Box-office Information System, on Friday, the movie "6/45' topped the box office for five days, starting from August 28 to September 1. The cumulative audience for the movie is 727,000.
"6/45" is a movie about an incident caused by a winning lottery ticket which got flown over to North Korea, leading to negotiations between North Korea and South Korea soldiers. Go Kyung-pyo, Lee Yi-kyung, and more starred in the movie "6/45."
Movie "Hunt" starring Lee Jung-jae and Jung Woo-sung, ranked second in the box office, following "6/45." The cumulative audience for this movie was 3,910,000, and it is expected to surpass 4,000,000 during the upcoming weekend.
The movie "6/45" is ranked second on the booking rate with 17.1%, followed by "Hunt" which is ranked third with 13.2%. The movie "Confidential Assignment 2: International," which is the only movie being released during the Chuseok holiday, is running first with a 22.7% booking rate.
The crime, thriller movie, "Limit," which was released on August 31 and stars Lee Jung-hyun and Jin Seo-yeon, has been running fourth at the box office for two consecutive days since its release. The cinematic edition of the WATCHA, popular dama "Semantic Error," ranked seventh on the day of release and ninth on the second day of release.
Together with this, the pandemic-based thriller "Lockdown 213 Weeks," director Michel Franco's "Sundown," a documentary "K Classic Generation" that spotlights Korean classical musicians, and director Yuya Ishii's "All the Things We Never Said."
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Dowon Kim.)
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