8월 1일~17일 영화 관객 1340만 명…지난해 같은 기간보다 68.3% 증가
13.4 Million Cinema Admissions in Korea Over August 1-17, Up 68.3% From a Year Earlier
Part of the August 23, 2026 daily edition
영화진흥위원회 통합전산망에 따르면 8월 1일부터 17일까지 전체 영화 관객 수는 약 1340만 명으로 집계됐습니다. 이는 지난해 같은 기간 796만 명보다 68.3% 늘어난 수치이고, 코로나19 이전인 2019년 이후 같은 기간 기준으로 가장 높은 수준입니다. 같은 기간 ’스파이더맨: 브랜드 뉴 데이’와 ‘오디세이’ 두 영화의 매출액 점유율은 각각 43.5%, 40.2%로 모두 87.7%에 달했습니다. CGV 데이터에 따르면 7월 29일부터 8월 9일까지 N차 관람객 가운데 15.7%가 ’스파이더맨: 브랜드 뉴 데이’를 반복 관람했습니다. 대형 블록버스터가 잇달아 흥행한 데다 폭염과 휴가철을 맞아 시원한 극장을 찾는 이른바 ‘극캉스’ 수요가 늘어난 것으로 분석됩니다.
Translation
According to the Korea Film Council's integrated computing network, total cinema admissions from August 1 to 17 were tallied at about 13.4 million. That is 68.3 percent more than the 7.96 million over the same period last year, and the highest level for the same period since 2019, before COVID-19. Over the same stretch, the two films 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' and 'The Odyssey' took revenue shares of 43.5 percent and 40.2 percent respectively, coming to 87.7 percent together. According to CGV's data, 15.7 percent of repeat moviegoers between July 29 and August 9 saw 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' more than once. The analysis is that large blockbusters were hits one after another, and that on top of that, extreme heat and the holiday season drove demand for so-called 극캉스 — heading to a cool cinema.
Vocabulary
- 관객명사 (noun)audience, moviegoer
- 집계되다동사 (verb)to be tallied, be counted up
- 점유율명사 (noun)share (of a market or total)
- 매출액명사 (noun)sales revenue
- 반복명사 (noun)repetition, doing something again
- 흥행하다동사 (verb)to be a hit at the box office
- 폭염명사 (noun)extreme heat, heat wave
- 수요명사 (noun)demand
Grammar points
N에 따르면according to N
N에 따르면 names the source a statement rests on, and it opens a huge share of Korean news sentences. It signals that what follows is being reported, not asserted by the writer. This lesson uses it twice on purpose, because the two figures come from different bodies over different dates: the national tally from 영화진흥위원회, the repeat-viewing share from CGV. Reading the phrase carefully is how you keep two statistics from being mistaken for one.
Example: CGV 데이터에 따르면 N차 관람객 가운데 15.7%가 이 영화를 반복 관람했습니다.
According to CGV's data, 15.7 percent of repeat moviegoers saw this film more than once.
N에 달하다 / N에 그치다to reach as much as N / to stop at only N
These two verbs are a matched pair for framing a quantity. 달하다 says the figure got all the way up to N and reads as large; 그치다 says it stopped there and reads as small. The number itself is neutral, so the choice of verb is where the writer's judgement enters — 87.7%에 달했습니다 presents that share as striking. Both take 에, not 을/를.
Example: 두 영화의 매출액 점유율은 모두 87.7%에 달했습니다.
The two films' revenue shares came to 87.7 percent together.
-(으)로 풀이되다/분석되다it is interpreted / analysed as
Korean news uses this passive to offer a cause without naming who is offering it. 분석되다 leans on data, 풀이되다 on interpretation, and both let a reporter suggest a reason while stopping short of asserting it as fact. That hedge is doing real work in this lesson: the ticket counts are measured, but why people bought them is not.
Example: '극캉스' 수요가 늘어난 것으로 분석됩니다.
The analysis is that demand for 'geukcanse' — going to the cinema to escape the heat — has grown.
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