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Aug 10, 2023 · The Barbie movie struggled at the box office in Korea due to a lack of cultural nostalgia attached to Barbies and a local anti-feminist movement.
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Aug 30, 2023 · Through analysis and interviews, trade website The Hollywood Reporter believes that Barbie bombed in South Korea due to its feminist messaging, and the toy’s lack of cultural...
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Aug 3, 2023 · Greta Gerwig’s Barbie has bombed at the box office in South Korea despite a lavish premiere in Seoul attended by the film’s star Margot Robbie.
Aug 5, 2023 · To date, Box Office Mojo reports that the latter film has only earned a little over $3 million in South Korea. According to Haein Shim, a South Korean women's rights activist, the...
Aug 12, 2023 · Here's the reasons to why the box office hit movie Barbie did not find much of a audience or success in South Korea.
When this Barbie-failed-because-of-anti-feminist article came out, most of the responses I saw in a women-centric forum was bewilderment. In Korea, Barbie actually is more like Star Wars than some heavy political movie. It’s about a famous American franchise that Koreans didn’t play with much.
Why Did ‘Barbie’ Bomb in South Korea? While Greta Gerwig ’s Barbie has taken the global box office by storm and shattered numerous records — the film raced past the $1 billion mark in just over two weeks — it hasn’t connected with audiences in one major market, South Korea.
