Spider-Man: Brand New Day swallowed 80.63% of South Korea's weekend box office, grossing $16.9 million from 2.25 million admissions across 2,409 screens for the July 31–August 2 frame, according to Variety, citing data from KOBIS — the Korean Film Council's real-time ticketing tracker.

The film went wide in Korea on July 29. By the close of its first weekend, its cumulative gross had reached $25 million from 3.38 million total admissions, Variety reported. IMAX accounted for $2.4 million of the opening — the highest-grossing IMAX opening weekend ever recorded in the territory.

The arrival ended the two-week reign of Hope, the local sci-fi survival thriller from director Na Hong-jin. Hope, starring Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, Jung Ho-yeon, Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, slipped to second place with $2.4 million from 335,810 admissions over the same weekend. Since launching on July 15, it has accumulated $31 million from 4.11 million admissions — still ahead of Spider-Man's cume, but with a 12-day head start.

The overall Korean market pulled in $20.8 million across all films for the weekend, more than double the previous week's $8.2 million. That makes it the biggest weekend at the South Korean box office so far this year.

The rest of the top ten held modestly. Minions & Monsters took third with $434,409, lifting its total to $5 million. Disney's Moana, now in its fourth weekend of Korean release, collected $252,794 for a running total of $7.4 million. Toy Story 5 placed fifth, adding $222,465 to reach $20.9 million since its mid-June debut — a strong hold for a film now in its seventh week.

Further down, the faith-based animated feature David grossed $167,794 for a $1.7 million total. The local animated sequel Teenieping: Legend of the Whale Heartstone, directed by Kim Soo-hoon, landed seventh on preview screenings alone, collecting $215,104 including early shows ahead of its official release. Tomoaki Fujino's documentary What Should We Have Done? debuted in eighth with $116,603 over the weekend and $170,552 since its July 29 premiere.

Rounding out the chart: The Eyes, a local psychological thriller directed by Yeom Ji-ho and starring Shin Min-ah and Kim Nam-hee, took ninth with $55,396 and a running total of $11.1 million. The Japanese anime Dream Animals The Movie placed tenth, adding $30,263 in its second frame to reach $262,973.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day's Korean launch follows an even larger North American debut. Studio estimates from Rentrak placed the domestic opening — the United States and Canada — at $355 million for the same weekend, the second-biggest opening weekend ever recorded in North America, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Deadline's figure came in slightly higher at $357.1 million, with a reported opening-day record of $168 million.

Those domestic numbers are Sunday studio estimates; Monday actuals will adjust them. The Korean figures, sourced from KOBIS, are similarly subject to revision, as the service updates its data on a previous-day basis and continues processing corrections after daily finalisation.