Audiences have an appetite for zombie flick, 'Peninsula'. Photo: Handout
The zombie thriller Peninsula attracted more than 350,000 moviegoers on the first day of its release, marking this year's highest opening-day attendance in South Korean cinema slumped by the coronavirus, its distributor said Thursday.
The sequel to the 2016 mega-hit zombie blockbuster Train To Busan drew 352,926 viewers on Wednesday, according to the Next entertainment World Co. It beat this year's highest first-day score of about 252,000 set by The Man Standing Next in January, Yonhap news agency reported.
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