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Director Jang Hang-joon beats Marvel and 'The Prince' exceeds 14 million today (20th) [Star Issue]

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(Seoul = News1) Reporter Kwon Hyun-jin = Director Jang Hang-joon of the movie 'The Man Who Lives with the King' is taking a commemorative photo with fans to commemorate the 13 million audience at COEX Megabox in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the 17th. 2026.3.17/News1 Copyright © News1. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction and redistribution, and prohibition of using AI learning. /Photo = (Seoul = News 1) Reporter Kwon Hyun-jin
(Seoul = News1) Reporter Kwon Hyun-jin = Director Jang Hang-joon of the movie 'The Man Who Lives with the King' is taking a commemorative photo with fans to commemorate the 13 million audience at COEX Megabox in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the 17th. 2026.3.17/News1 Copyright © News1. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction and redistribution, and prohibition of using AI learning. /Photo = (Seoul = News 1) Reporter Kwon Hyun-jin

Director Jang Hang-joon will overtake Marvel heroes to rank fifth in the box office.

According to the Korea Film Council's integrated computer network on the 20th, "The Man Who Lives with the King" (director Jang Hang-joon) attracted 107,193 audiences on the 19th. The cumulative number of visitors is 13,953,452.

"The Man Who Lives with the King" is showing its box office potential by attracting more than 100,000 audiences a day on weekdays. "The Man Who Lives with the King" will surpass 14 million cumulative viewers on the 20th, surpassing "Avengers: Endgame" (13.977,409), the fifth-largest movie in the box office.

Actors Kim Soo-jin, Lee Joon-hyuk, Park Ji-hoon, Kim Min and Yoo Ji-tae are greeting at the 10 millionth thank-you stage greeting event for the movie "The Man Who Lives with the King" held at Megabox COEX in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 17th. /2026.03.17 / Photo = Lee Dong-hoon photoguy@
Actors Kim Soo-jin, Lee Joon-hyuk, Park Ji-hoon, Kim Min and Yoo Ji-tae are greeting at the 10 millionth thank-you stage greeting event for the movie "The Man Who Lives with the King" held at Megabox COEX in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 17th. /2026.03.17 / Photo = Lee Dong-hoon photoguy@

"The Man Who Lives with the King" exceeded the record of the first 10 million movie this year and 10 million movie in two years since "The Outlaws 4" (2024), and the cumulative number of "Seoul Spring" (1,3128,080), which attracted the largest number of Korean movies since the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. This set a milestone for the largest number of Korean movies released since the pandemic.

Director Jang Hang-joon, who became the "10 million director," beat "Avengers: Endgame" following the most successful Hollywood movie of all time, aiming for the top spot in all time.

So far, "Roaring Currents" (17.616,661), "Extreme Job" (16,266,641), "Along with the Gods" (14,414,658), and "Ode to the World" (14,269,317). With "The Man Who Lives With the King" ranked fifth in history, attention is focusing on whether it can beat the second-place "extreme job."

Meanwhile, the movie "The Man Who Lives with the King" is the story of Cheongryeongpo in 1457, a village chief who claimed to be exiled for the revival of the village, and a young predecessor who was expelled from the throne and exiled.

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