Spy Nation (Movie - 2016)

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  Choi Seungho
  최승호
  As
  Self
  (본인)
• Kim Gi-choon (김기춘)
  As
  Self
  (본인)
• Won Se-hoon (원세훈)
  As
  Self
  (본인)

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  [HanCinema's News] Torture Victim Featured in "Spy Nation" Dies in Japan
  2020/12/27
  On December 27th director Choi Seungho of "Spy Nation" announced on Facebook that alleged spy Kim Seung-hyo had died in Japan on December 26th. Kim Seung-hyo was among the persons featured in "Spy Nation" as having been wrongly accused of spying for the North Korean government for political reasons during the dictatorship era,...More

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  [HanCinema's News] Celebrities Help Crowdfund for Comfort Woman Documentary "My Name Is KIM Bok-dong"
  2019/07/19
  On July 16th the upcoming comfort woman documentary "My name is KIM Bok-dong" started crowdfunding. In only two days it achieved its target of ten thousand dollars worth of donations,...More

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  [HanCinema's Event Coverage] Jeonju International Film Festival 2017 Politics (with Emmanuel Moonchil Park)
  2017/05/10
  Happening right before the Presidential Election on May 9th, the Jeju International Film Festival fielded a lot of questions at press conferences this year about politics. The answers always fall into the same general pattern- movies depicts life, and life depicts politics, ergo, movies inevitably have to depict politics,...More

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  [HanCinema's Box Office Review] 2016.12.02 ~ 2016.12.04
  2016/12/05
  Local comedy "My Annoying Brother" rises to the top amid protests... Kwon Soo-kyeong's family comedy "My Annoying Brother" captured 30% of the box office sales to push its total tally now past the 2 million mark. The film, Kwon's second after "Barefoot Ki-bong", added 597,954 admissions from 831 screens and has now grossed $14.4 million (2.1 million admissions) since its release late last month. That means it has surpassed the 1.9 million admissions Kwon's debut film attracted back in 2006,...More

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  Korean Box Office for the Weekend 2016.12.02 ~ 2016.12.04
  2016/12/04, Source
  The number one movie this week is "My Annoying Brother" (형),...More

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  [HanCinema's Box Office Review] 2016.11.25 ~ 2016.11.27
  2016/11/28
  "Fantastic Beasts" holds out against "My Annoying Brother"... The British-American fantasy flick "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" narrowly maintained pole position over Kwon Soo-kyeong's incoming family comedy, "My Annoying Brother". Last weekend J.K. Rowling's adaptation of her own work appeared and captured 68% of the sales (1.4 million admissions), and during its second week out this Harry Potter spin-off added another 895,990 stubs (45%) to bring its bottom line now to $24.7 million (3.4 million admissions). Worldwide, this week's number one has grossed $473.7 million,...More

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  Korean Box Office for the Weekend 2016.11.25 ~ 2016.11.27
  2016/11/27, Source
  The number one movie this week is "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them",...More

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  [HanCinema's Box Office Review] 2016.11.11 ~ 2016.11.13
  2016/11/21
  J.K. Rowling's screenwriting debut summons the masses with magic... David Yates's fantasy flick "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" arrived in Korea last Wednesday and dethroned a weary "Doctor Strange" at the top of the pile. For the past three weeks, Marvel's mind-bending spectacle has been riding high in the Land of the Morning Calm, but this new magical storm from Warner Bros. Pictures has sent the doctor down a few notches by summoning plenty fresh feet to Korea's big screens,...More

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  Korean Box Office for the Weekend 2016.11.18 ~ 2016.11.20
  2016/11/20, Source
  The number one movie this week is "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them",...More

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  [HanCinema's Box Office Review] 2016.11.11 ~ 2016.11.13
  2016/11/14
  "Doctor Strange" becomes the second-highest grossing foreign film of the year... Marvel's latest blockbuster "Doctor Strange" retained pole position and claimed its third weekend at the top of Korea's box office. Director Scott Derrickson's cinematic wizardry (riding Marvel's marvellous momentum) added another 548,520 admissions (38.9%) to its Korean cause to become the tenth highest-grossing film of the year with 4.8 million admissions ($36.3 million),...More

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  Korean Box Office for the Weekend 2016.11.11 ~ 2016.11.13
  2016/11/13, Source
  The number one movie this week is "Doctor Strange",...More

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  [HanCinema's Box Office Review] 2016.11.04 ~ 2016.11.06
  2016/11/07
  "Doctor Strange" and "Luck.Key" capture 83% of the box office pie... Marvel's "Doctor Strange" retained pole position by attracting another million admissions (58.6%) during its second weekend out in Korea. The film's first weekend saw 1.6 million filmgoers flock to its screens (63%), and with this weekend's take included, the film's totally tally swelled to 3.9 million ($30.4 million). Worldwide, Scott Derrickson's "Doctor Strange" has grossed $325.4 million having been produced for an estimated $165 million,...More

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  Korean Box Office for the Weekend 2016.11.04 ~ 2016.11.06
  2016/11/06, Source
  The number one movie this week is "Doctor Strange",...More

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  [HanCinema's Box Office Review]
  2016/10/31
  Marvel's "Doctor Strange" arrives and thrives Marvel's fourteenth film, "Doctor Strange", arrived last Wednesday and shot straight to the top of the chart by capturing 63.4% of the box office pie. The film, directed by Scott Derrickson, had a massive 1,500 screens from which to pool and attracted 1.6 million admissions ($12.9 million) to dislodged Lee Gye-byeok's comedy drama "Luck.Key" as the country's film of choice,...More

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  Korean Box Office for the Weekend 2016.10.28 ~ 2016.10.30
  2016/10/30, Source
  The number one movie this week is "Doctor Strange",...More

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  [HanCinema's Box Office Review] 2016.10.21 ~ 2016.10.23
  2016/10/24
  "Lucky.Key" retains pole position after screen boost despite "Inferno"... Lee Gye-byeok's drama "Luck.Key" gained a few more screens during its second week out and retained pole position by adding another 1.4 million admissions (66%) to its total tally. Since its release mid-October, "Luck.Key" has banked $4.3 million (4.3 million admissions) and so moves to number ten in the country's list of highest-grossing films of the year,...More

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  Korean Box Office for the Weekend 2016.10.21 ~ 2016.10.23
  2016/10/23, Source
  The number one movie this week is "Luck.Key" (럭키),...More

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  [HanCinema's Box Office Review] 2016.10.14 ~ 2016.10.16
  2016/10/17
  "Lucky.Key" opens its account and scores... Lee Gye-byeok's sophomore film, "Lucky.Key", was officially released on Thursday and shot to the top by capturing 68.2% of the box office pie. Lee's drama, which stars Yoo Hae-jin, Lee Joon and Jo Yoon-hee, attracted 1.6 million filmgoers from 1,158 screens to dislodge Tim Burton's dark fantasy flick from pole position,...More

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  Korean Box Office for the Weekend 2016.10.14 ~ 2016.10.16
  2016/10/16, Source
  The number one movie this week is "Luck.Key" (럭키),...More

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  [HanCinema's Film Review] "Spy Nation"
  2016/10/15
  Official South Korean state propaganda when it comes to North Korean defectors is pretty straightforward. South Korea is the obviously superior country, ergo, any and all North Koreans can and should flee here at the first possible opportunity. In reality the lower-class conditions North Korean defectors are stuck with in South Korea are often so bad as to make North Korea seem nicer by comparison. "Spy Nation" delves into an even more bizarre potential problem for would-be defectors- the tendency of the South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) to use illegal measures to try and bully defectors into confessing that they're spies,...More

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  Korean movies opening today 2016/10/13 in Korea
  2016/10/13, Source
  Korean movies opening today 2016/10/13 in Korea: "Luck.Key", "Woojoo's Christmas", "A Quiet Dream", "Spy Nation", and "Young Sister-In-Law",...More

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  [HanCinema's Box Office Review] 2016.10.07 ~ 2016.10.09
  2016/10/10
  Tim Burton's "Miss Peregrine" and "Breathe" trump "The City of Madness"... It's been weeks since a foreign film topped the charts in Korea, but after entering the fray in second place last week, Tim Burton's dark fantasy drama, "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" (starring Eva Green), managed to top the charts with 660,702 admissions (35.3%). Last weekend, Burton's latest, which is based on Ransom Riggs' 2011 novel of the same name, entered in second place with 23.5% of the sales from 810 screens, but an increase in screens to just under 900 helped propel the film to the top as its total tally in Korea moves to 1.9 million ($14.6 million),...More

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  [Photos] Added new behind-the-scenes images for the upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation"
  2016/10/10, Source
  Added new behind-the-scenes images for the upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation",...More

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  Korean Box Office for the Weekend 2016.10.07 ~ 2016.10.09
  2016/10/09, Source
  The number one movie this week is "Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children",...More

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  [Photo] Added new poster for the upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation"
  2016/10/04, Source
  Added new poster for the upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation",...More

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  [HanCinema's Box Office Review] 2016.09.30 ~ 2016.10.02
  2016/10/03
  "The Age of Shadows" falls to "The City of Madness"... Kim Seong-su's fourth film, "Asura: The City of Madness", arrived at the end of last month and has risen to the top of Korea's box office during the first weekend of October. The film, which stars Jung Woo-sung, Hwang Jung-min, Ju Ji-hoon and Kwak Do-won, captured 43.8% of the box office pie (1 million admissions from 1,278 screens) to claim the top spot from last weekend's winner, Korea's official Oscar submission, "The Age of Shadows",...More

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  Korean Box Office for the Weekend 2016.09.30 ~ 2016.10.02
  2016/10/02, Source
  The number one movie this week is "Asura: The City of Madness" (아수라),...More

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  [Photo] Added new crowdfunders poster for the upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation"
  2016/09/28, Source
  Added new crowdfunders poster for the upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation",...More

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  [HanCinema's Box Office Review] 2016.09.23 ~ 2016.09.25
  2016/09/26
  Korea's Oscar submission approaches 7 million admissions... The last weekend of September was a relatively subdued affair, but the country's official Oscar submissions, Kim Jee-woon's "The Age of Shadows", was still able to secure pole position by capturing 38.6% of the box office pie. From the 1,105 screens allocated, "The Age of Shadows" recorded 459,046 admissions (38.6%) which moved its bottom line now to just under 7 million (6.8 million admissions/$51 million),...More

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  [Video] New trailer released for the upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation"
  2016/09/26, Source
  New trailer released for the upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation",...More

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  Korean Box Office for the Weekend 2016.09.23 ~ 2016.09.25
  2016/09/25, Source
  The number one movie this week is "The Age of Shadows" (밀정),...More

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  [Video] Official trailer released for the Korean documentary 'Spy Nation'
  2016/09/22, Source
  Official trailer released for the upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation",...More

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  [Photo + Video] Added new poster and motion poster for the upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation"
  2016/09/19, Source
  Added new poster and motion poster for the upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation",...More

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  [HanCinema's Box Office Review] 2016.09.09 ~ 2016.09.11
  2016/09/12
  Korea's official Oscar submission wows local audiences... After a month-long run as Korea's number one, Kim Seong-hun's action thriller "Tunnel" (Ha Jung-woo, Bae Doona, Oh Dal-soo) was finally dethroned over the weekend following the release of a string of new films. The most successful of which came in the form of Kim Jee-woon's latest, "The Age of Shadows": Korea's official submissions to next year's Oscars,...More

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  [Photos + Video] Added new stills and trailer for the upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation"
  2016/09/12, Source
  Added new stills and trailer for the upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation",...More

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  Korean Box Office for the Weekend 2016.09.09 ~ 2016.09.11
  2016/09/11, Source
  The number one movie this week is "The Age of Shadows" (밀정),...More

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  [Photos] Added new stills for the upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation"
  2016/08/30, Source
  Added new stills for the upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation",...More

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  [Video] Teaser trailer released for the Korean documentary 'Spy Nation'
  2016/08/19, Source
  Teaser trailer released for the upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation",...More

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  [Video] Upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation"
  2016/04/23, Source
  Added the upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation"'s page to HanCinema database,...More

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  [Video] Trailer released for the Korean documentary 'Spy Nation'
  2016/04/22, Source
  Trailer released for the upcoming Korean documentary "Spy Nation",...More