Director Hwang Byung-guk's crime film
On the 13th, the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) and Plus M Entertainment said the film had drawn about 3,015,000 cumulative viewers through the previous day.
It surpassed the final audience of 3,013,391 for "Mickey 17," the year's most attended film. In particular, as a Korean film rated for adults only, it exceeded 3 million viewers for the first time in six years since the 2019 release "The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil."
Released on the 16th of last month, "Yadang" has held the top spot on the daily box office for a total of 25 days and continues to draw audiences. Competing films such as "The Minecraft Movie", "Thunderbolts*", "Holy Night: Demon Hunters", and "The Old Woman with the Knife" were released one after another, but they could not stop "Yadang" from dominating the box office.
Meanwhile, "Yadang" is centered on a broker who hands over information about drug crimes to investigative agencies and profits from it. It tells the story of Yadang Lee Gang-su (Kang Ha-neul), prosecutor Koo Kwan-hee (Yu Hae-jin), who coexists with him, and detective Oh Sang-jae (Park Hae-joon), who has put everything on the line to wipe out a drug trafficking organization.