Half of moviegoers cut theater visits as ticket prices bite

Nearly half of South Koreans who watch movies in theaters said they are going less often than a year prior, while the use of streaming services has risen at a similar pace, a report by the Korean Film Council showed Thursday. Some 45.8 percent of respondents who watched at least one movie at the cinema between October 2024 and September 2025 said they visited theaters less frequently than in the previous 12-month period, according to the state-run agency’s survey. Of them, 16.5 percent said thei