Now this is more like it — after a pretty long, barren spell, we finally got some life in the box office this week. November was down 11.6% from last year, and the first couple weekends in December were looking pretty bad, too. But 200-POUND BEAUTY opened in No. 1 last weekend with nearly 1 million admissions. Nice.

The Jack Black-Cameron Diaz holiday comedy, THE HOLIDAY, also did pretty decent debut business, with 452,000 admissions (nearly what CYBORG did last week… better in Seoul, in fact).

In third, Uhm Jung-hwa and Daniel Henney showed a bit of staying power for SEDUCING MR. PERFECT. Although it opened a little behind CYBORG, MR. PERFECT has shown better legs, landing ahead of the Park Chan-wook film this week.

(Interesting note I just found out about — Lotte Cinema distributed MR. PERFECT, but in order to do so, they had to make a package deal for THE OLD GARDEN, the latest Im Sung-soo film, which comes out on Jan 4.)

But with so many films opening this week, I do not expect much of this top-10 list will be around seven days from now. It should be quite the bloodbath at the box office.

This Week Title…………………………………. Release Date Screens Nationwide Weekend Attendance (Seoul only) Total Attendance
1. 200-Pound Beauty 12.14 473 195,200 924,400
2. The Holiday 12.14 242 133,000 452,000
3. Seducing Mr. Perfect 12.07 303 41,600 651,500
4. I’m a Cyborg, But That’s Okay 12.07 280 40,000 704,000
5. The World of Silence 12.14 194 30,900 140,800
6. Sunflower 11.23 212 25,500 1,476,200
7. Just Friends 12.07 137 21,500 231,300
8. Pan’s Labyrinth 11.30 118 15,100 514,500
9. Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D 12.07 26 6,200 48,400
10. Saw 3 11.30 76 3,300 428,200

(Source: Film2.0)