{"id":2438805,"date":"2026-05-31T04:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2438805"},"modified":"2026-05-31T04:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:00:36","slug":"colony-gains-3-million-veiwers-in-just-10-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/colony-gains-3-million-veiwers-in-just-10-days\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Colony&#8217; gains 3 million veiwers in just 10 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p>                    <!-- 20240718 &#44592;&#51088;&#48512;&#48516; &#52628;&#44032; --><\/p>\n<div class=\"topArea\">\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"article-publish-date\"><br \/>\n                                Published: 31 May. 2026, 12:26<\/span>\n                            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                    <!--\/\/20240718 &#44592;&#51088;&#48512;&#48516; &#52628;&#44032; end --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article_body_container\">\n<div class=\"ab_photo photo_center ab_zoom\" style=\"width: 820px;\">\n<div class=\"image\">\n  <br \/>\n  <span class=\"mask\"\/>\n <\/div>\n<p class=\"caption\">Poster of the local zombie thriller \u2033Colony\u2033 [YONHAP]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> Local zombie thriller &#8220;Colony&#8221; surpassed its break-even point, drawing a cumulative audience of 3 million viewers in just 10 days.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> According to the Korean Film Council\u2019s integrated ticketing system on Saturday, Colony recorded a total of 3,000,058 moviegoers as of 4:58 p.m. that day.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> <br \/>\n \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> The movie&#8217;s box-office momentum surpasses that of &#8220;The King\u2019s Warden,&#8221; February\u2019s historical epic that drew over 16 million viewers and ranks as the second most-watched film in Korean history.\u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> To celebrate the milestone, director Yeon Sang-ho and the cast shared handwritten thank-you messages and commemorative photos through the film\u2019s official channels, expressing their gratitude to audiences.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> \u201cColony\u201d is the latest of Yeon&#8217;s zombie thrillers, which include megahit \u201cTrain to Busan\u201d (2016). It follows a biotechnology professor \u2014 Se-jeong, played by Jun Ji-hyun \u2014 and a group of survivors who fight to escape a building quarantined due to a virus outbreak.\u00a0The movie was also invited to the out-of-competition Midnight Screening section of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n <\/p>\n<div class=\"ab_photo photo_center ab_zoom\" style=\"width: 682px;\">\n<div class=\"image\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Director and cast of \u2033Colony\u2033 post celebratory messages online following the news that the movie sold over 3 million tickets on May 30. [SHOWBOX] \" src=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/data\/photo\/2026\/05\/31\/274db03e-4c25-402f-9035-82f4b9344499.jpg\" data-reuse=\"allowed\"\/><br \/>\n  <span class=\"mask\"\/>\n <\/div>\n<p class=\"caption\">Director and cast of \u2033Colony\u2033 post celebratory messages online following the news that the movie sold over 3 million tickets on May 30. 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All AI-assisted translations are reviewed and refined by our newsroom.<\/i><br \/>\n<br \/>BY SHIN HYE-YEON [<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"066a6363286c6f6768466c69696861676861286569286d74\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                    <!-- promoted &#49884;&#51089; --><br \/>\n                    <!-- promoted &#45149;--><\/p>\n<p>                    <!-- &#49888;&#44508; &#48708;&#46356;&#50724; &#44305;&#44256; 250813 --><br \/>\n                    <!-- world &#49440;&#51201;&#50857; --><br \/>\n                    <!-- &#49888;&#44508; &#48708;&#46356;&#50724; &#44305;&#44256; &#51333;&#47308; -->\n                <\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/ko_KR\/all.js\"><\/script><\/p>\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 koreajoongangdaily.joins.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: 31 May. 2026, 12:26 Poster of the local zombie thriller \u2033Colony\u2033 [YONHAP] \u00a0 Local zombie thriller &#8220;Colony&#8221; surpassed its break-even point, drawing a cumulative audience of 3 million viewers in just 10 days. \u00a0 According to the Korean Film Council\u2019s integrated ticketing system on Saturday, Colony recorded a total of 3,000,058 moviegoers as of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2438806,"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":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2438805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Colony-gains-3-million-veiwers-in-just-10-days.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438805","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=2438805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438807,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438805\/revisions\/2438807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2438806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}