{"id":2043097,"date":"2025-09-23T07:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2043097"},"modified":"2025-09-23T07:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:40:10","slug":"korea-box-office-yeon-sang-hos-the-ugly-rises-to-no-1-as-demon-slayer-moves-to-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/korea-box-office-yeon-sang-hos-the-ugly-rises-to-no-1-as-demon-slayer-moves-to-second\/","title":{"rendered":"Korea Box Office: Yeon Sang-ho\u2019s \u2018The Ugly\u2019 Rises to No. 1 as \u2018Demon Slayer\u2019 Moves to Second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3613566\/\">Yeon Sang-ho<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt33514451\/\">The Ugly<\/a>\u201d climbed to the top of the Korean box office with $1.9 million from 254,828 admissions over Sept. 19\u201321, edging past \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32820897\/\">Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle<\/a>,\u201d which earned $1.7 million and settled for second.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kobis, the tracking service operated by the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0197065\/\">Korean Film Council<\/a>, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt33514451\/\">The Ugly<\/a>\u201d has reached $5.4 million since opening on Sept. 11, while \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9335498\/\">Demon Slayer<\/a>\u201d stands at $37.4 million after a month in release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt33514451\/\">The Ugly<\/a>\u201d stars <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3683989\/\">Park Jeong-min<\/a> alongside <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1040587\/\">Kwon Hae-hyo<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm17578208\/\">Shin Hyun-been<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm12174956\/\">Im Seong-jae<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm12016815\/\">Han Ji-hyun<\/a>. The plot follows Dong-hwan, the son of a visually impaired seal engraving master, who discovers skeletal remains and investigates the long-hidden truth about his mother\u2019s disappearance four decades earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt35444710\/\">Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback<\/a>\u201d debuted in fourth place with $364,768 from 46,723 admissions. Directed by Shigehara Katsuya and written by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3464902\/\">Takeharu Sakurai<\/a> (from the manga by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1108327\/\">Aoyama Gosho<\/a>), the film features voice cast including <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0847439\/\">Takayama Minami<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0906722\/\">Yamazaki Wakana<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0468711\/\">Koyama Rikiya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeon Sang-ho\u2019s \u201cThe Ugly\u201d climbed to the top of the Korean box office with $1.9 million from 254,828 admissions over Sept. 19\u201321, edging past \u201cDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle,\u201d which earned $1.7 million and settled for second. According to Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, \u201cThe Ugly\u201d has reached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2043098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2043097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Korea-Box-Office-Yeon-Sang-hos-\u2018The-Ugly-Rises-to-No.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2043098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}