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SEOUL, August 14 (Yonhap) – “Hunt,” a spy action movie starring Lee Jung-jae and Jung Woo-sung, topped the box office on the first day of the Liberation Day holiday.

According to the integrated network of movie tickets by the Korean Film Council on Sunday, “Hunt” mobilized 394,000 spectators the day before, increasing the cumulative number of spectators to 1,007,000.

Since its release on August 10, “Hunt” has dominated the box office for four days in a row, winning “Hansan: Rising Dragon.”

“Hansan” took second place with 262,000 viewers the day before, while “Emergency Declaration” took third place with 74,000 people.

“Top-Gun: Maverick,” which has been popular for a long time took fourth place with 46,000 viewers. With a cumulative audience of about 7,614,000, it broke the record for the highest box-office record of a Tom Cruise starring film which initially was 2011's “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol” (7.57 million). It also broke the record for the number of audiences for foreign films after the pandemic which initially was “Spider-Man: No Way Home” (7.55 million).

On Saturday, August 13, the first day of the three-day holiday, the total number of people watching the movie was about 877,000, which was 14.0% less than 1.02 million on Saturday the previous week.

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