Cho Jung-seok, who finished the theater's destruction..Zombie Daughter Heatwave → 1,000 won ticket → Comic 3-beat jackpot

By Jeeyoung, Jo

Jul 31, 2025

Cho Jung-seok, who finished the theater's destruction..Zombie Daughter Heatwave → 1,000 won ticket → Comic 3-beat jackpot



Theater district that has driven away audiences with over-the-top theater ticket prices, repeated factory-type genres, and old, low-quality warehouse movies since the pandemic. The theater district, which faced the worst situation, has been revitalized for the first time in a long time.

When the audience left, the protagonist who caused the theater district, which was truly at the level of destruction, was none other than the human comedy film 'Zombie Daughter' (directed by Pil-Seong-Sung, produced by Studio N). Comedy that sympathizes with actors, men and women of all ages, and 'Zombie Daughter', which benefited properly with a record heat wave and a hot discount ticket, has become 'Save the Theater District's heyday vibes.

According to the integrated computer network of movie theater admission tickets on the 31st, 'Zombie Daughter' immediately topped the box office with an overwhelming number of 430,101 people on the 30th, the first day of its release. The Hollywood blockbuster 『F1 The Movie" (directed by Joseph Kosinski) and the action fantasy movie 『Omniscient Reader's View』 (directed by Kim Byung-woo) mobilized 118,149 people (2.637,781 accumulated) and 83,988 people (82,640 accumulated) on the same day to build a three-way race with 『Zombie Daughter』.




Cho Jung-seok, who finished the theater's destruction..Zombie Daughter Heatwave → 1,000 won ticket → Comic 3-beat jackpot
Following the release of 「Omniscient Reader's View」 released on the 23rd,"Zombie Daughter", which threw its hat into the ring with the second Korean movie this summer, turned into a movie of the popular webtoon of the same name by Lee Yoon-chang. It depicts a warm and comical story of a father of a daughter who went into top-secret training to protect her daughter, who became the last zombie in the world.

The success of "Zombie Daughter" has shown unusual movements since the pre-release reservation rate. After the premiere, Zombie Daughter, which gained expectations by gaining word of mouth from the media, critics, and previewed audiences, exceeded 300,000 advance reservations on the 29th, a day before its release, showing a scary momentum with the highest advance reservation record this year. The record of this 'zombie daughter' surpassed Bong Joon-ho's 'Mickey 17' (244,159) which was a hot topic in the first half of the year, as well as the 'Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning' (255,213) which attracted the highest number of reservations and the largest number of audiences, and the 'Samyo' (28,132) which rang 10 million golden bells last year.

As if to demonstrate keen interest, the opening score also exploded properly. Unveiled in anticipation, 'Zombie Daughter' created a festive atmosphere in the Korean film industry by attracting 430,000 all-time daily audiences on the first day.




In fact, the opening performance of 「Zombie Daughter" exceeded the opening (423,892) of"Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning" and beat the opening record of"Extreme Job" by director Lee Byung-hun, who is the most successful Korean comedy film of all time and second in the box office of all time (368,582).

In addition, the opening scores of the 2023 10 million-strong film 『"Spring" (203,813) and last summer's top box office hit 『"pilot" (37,859) easily exceeded the opening score of the top-rated Korean film in the past five years.

Cho Jung-seok, who finished the theater's destruction..Zombie Daughter Heatwave → 1,000 won ticket → Comic 3-beat jackpot
Cho Jung-seok, who finished the theater's destruction..Zombie Daughter Heatwave → 1,000 won ticket → Comic 3-beat jackpot
Cho Jung-seok, who finished the theater's destruction..Zombie Daughter Heatwave → 1,000 won ticket → Comic 3-beat jackpot
Cho Jung-seok, who finished the theater's destruction..Zombie Daughter Heatwave → 1,000 won ticket → Comic 3-beat jackpot
Cho Jung-seok, who has emerged as a contributor to the success of "Zombie Daughter", is also in the spotlight again. Cho Jung-seok is one of the domestic actors who specializes in 'real comedy' and is considered a 'trusted actor' especially favorable to the public. Cho Jung-seok, who recently appeared frequently in summer theaters with a series of comedy genres, became a summer box office official with his 2019 summer action comedy film `Exit' attracting 9.42 million viewers and his 2024 summer comedy `Pilot' attracting 4.71 million viewers, proving his name value by setting a record for the opening score of the `Zombie Daughter' and becoming a `summer box office hit cheat key.' The audience's favorable reviews for him, such as the "Standard of Summer" and the "Summer Seasonal Cho Jung-seok" continue, as well as Choi Yu-ri as a zombie daughter who worked with her father and daughter, and fantastic team play such as Lee Jung-eun as Bamsoon and Geum Dong-i as Ji-hoi, who tore up the original webtoon, and Jo Yeo-jeong and Yoon Kyung-ho, who are in form, are also increasing the audience's favorability for "Zombie Daughter".

On top of that, the all-time heat wave that led to the gathering of theaters also helped the box office success of "Zombie Daughter". Despite the summer vacation and vacation season, the nation is experiencing record-breaking heat, especially as the demand of people who planned to travel to Korea for this season has been replaced by relatively accessible, cool, and pleasant theaters, Zombie Daughter' has also enjoyed a lot of fun. In addition, the release of the `Culture Day (last Wednesday of every month)" and the 6,000 won movie discount coupon provided by the government as one of the policies to boost consumption were added to create synergy and the benefit of watching movies with 1,000 won, allowing the `Zombie Daughter' to hit the jackpot.

"Zombie Daughter" announced a good start, and the next key is the audience on the first weekend. During the weekend from the 1st to the 3rd of next month, the highest season for theaters, the main characters of 'Zombie Daughter' plan to go around the theater stage to encourage viewing and attract as much audience as possible.

Of course, the box office atmosphere is not bad. On the 31st, the second day of its release, 'Zombie Daughter' still maintains a 36.6% reservation rate, ranking first in the reservation rate, and has a high rating of 91% for CGV Egg Index, 9.1 for Lotte Cinema, and 9.08 for Naver.

If the net production cost is 11 billion won and the break-even point is 2.2 million, Zombie Daughter will quickly hit 2 million as well as 1 million in the first week of its release, it will add to the record as the fastest box office hit this year.





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