Hollywood is owning the summer box office. Will Korean films take it back in the fall?

Korea's box office is in the middle of its hottest stretch in years, and Hollywood blockbusters are running the show at the moment. Two major imports are filling seats through the dog days of summer, setting the stage for a bigger question: whether the momentum holds once the spotlight shifts back to homegrown films this fall. Christopher Nolan's Homeric epic "The Odyssey," one of the most anticipated releases of 2026, opened Wednesday and shot straight to No. 1, passing 540,000 admissions in it