[HanCinema's News] "The Boys" Hits South Korean on-demand Services
By William Schwartz | Published on
On November 27th, the detective drama film "The Boys" appeared on various South Korean OTT platforms for purchase. These include IPTV, Digital Cable TV, TVING, Naver Series On, wavve, Google Play, and Apple TV among other platforms. This follows a November 21st statement from CJ ENM announcing the release. "The Boys" stars Sol Kyung-gu as a detective trying to determine what happened with a several youth at a supermarket robbery.
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The realistically styled mystery is based on the Samrye Nara Supermarket Incident of 1999. While this incident is reasonably well-documented in Korean, there is very little information about it in the English language. Some 95% of self-reporting filmgoers at CGV gave "The Boys" a positive rating. Despite these plaudits, "The Boys" only had a modest box office performance, amounting to 469,460 admissions from November 1st, its day of theatrical release, to November 27th.
Written by William Schwartz
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"The Boys" is directed by Chung Ji-young, and features Sol Kyung-gu, Yu Jun-sang, Jin Kyung, Heo Sung-tae, Yeom Hye-ran, Kim Dong-young. Release date in Korea: 2023/11/01.
William Schwartz
Staff writer. Has been writing articles for HanCinema since 2012, having lived in South Korea from 2011 to 2021. He is currently located in the Portland metropolitan area. William Schwartz can be contacted via william@hancinema.net, and is open to requests for content in future articles.