'Train to Busan' sets Taiwan box office record

Korea’s first zombie film “Train to Busan” has been exported to 156 countries. / Courtesy of Next Entertainment World

By Lee Jin-a

Korean zombie blockbuster “Train to Busan” has set a box office records for Korean

films in Taiwan.

According to the China Times on Sunday, “Train to Busan” took $NT30 million ($952,000) as of Saturday (local time) within two days of opening. This tops “My Sassy Girl” ($NT22 million) and “A Tale of Two Sisters” ($NT25 million).

“Train to Busan, which debuted in the Out of Competition category at the Cannes Film Festival in May, is about a group of passengers fighting their way through a nationwide zombie outbreak while trapped on a Busan-bound bullet train.

Drawing more than 11 million viewers in Korea, the movie has been exported to 156 countries, including the U.S., Canada, China, India, Germany, Australia and Japan.

It set a box office opening record in Singapore, and topped the Vietnamese box office in its first week.

The film also took more than $1.4 million in North America within a month of its July 22 release.