{"id":2250642,"date":"2026-01-26T08:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2250642"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:20:19","slug":"korea-box-office-once-we-were-us-leads-as-choir-of-god-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/korea-box-office-once-we-were-us-leads-as-choir-of-god-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"Korea Box Office: \u2018Once We Were Us\u2019 Leads as \u2018Choir of God\u2019 Surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The local romance \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt37764737\/\">Once We Were Us<\/a>\u201d secured its third consecutive weekend at the top of the South Korean box office, according to data from 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>. While the film remained steady at the summit, the weekend saw a notable rise for a local musical drama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt37764737\/\">Once We Were Us<\/a>\u201d earned $1.7 million from 254,298 admissions over the weekend. Directed by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5999730\/\">Kim Do-young<\/a> and starring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3640854\/\">Koo Kyo-hwan<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3209606\/\">Moon Ga-young<\/a>, the film is a local remake of the 2018 Chinese hit \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8033592\/\">Us and Them<\/a>.\u201d The story follows two people who first met as students and fell in love, only to be separated by the harsh realities of city life. They unexpectedly reunite a decade later, forcing them to confront their shared past and the dreams they once held. Since its New Year\u2019s Eve debut, the film has amassed a cumulative gross of $13.6 million from 2,001,032 admissions.<\/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>The local romance \u201cOnce We Were Us\u201d secured its third consecutive weekend at the top of the South Korean box office, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council. While the film remained steady at the summit, the weekend saw a notable rise for a local musical drama. \u201cOnce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2250643,"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-2250642","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\/2026\/01\/Korea-Box-Office-\u2018Once-We-Were-Us-Leads-as-\u2018Choir.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250642","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=2250642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250644,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250642\/revisions\/2250644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}