Hot 'Hope' draws 590,000 viewers on Constitution Day... word of mouth propels it toward 2 million cumulative attendance

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More than 590,000 viewers watched "Hope" during the Constitution Day holiday.

According to the Korean Film Council's integrated box office database on the 18th, "Hope" attracted 594,804 viewers on the 17th alone. The cumulative audience reached 1,220,511, surpassing 1.2 million viewers just three days after its release.

Released amid high expectations, "Hope" became the fastest Korean film this year to cross the 1st million viewer mark and is expected to exceed 2 million cumulative viewers by next week thanks to word of mouth.

"Hope" tells the story of "Beom-seok," the head of a Pohang outpost located in the Demilitarized Zone, who learns from local youths that a tiger has appeared, plunging the entire village into alarm as he confronts an unbelievable reality.

With stories and spectacles unseen in previous Korean films, "Hope" is enjoying box office success amid glowing reviews and enthusiastic reactions from audiences.

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