'Assassination' 2015's top Korean movie

“Assassination” has topped ticket sales for Korean movies released this year.

The action movie has drawn almost 6.19 million people, beating “Northern Limit Line”s 6 million, according to the Korean Film Council on Sunday.

More than 6 million tickets had been sold in the 11 days after the film opened on July 22, the shortest time a Korean movie has taken to reach the mark this year. Average ticket sales were more than 580,000 a day.

Set in the 1930s during Japanese colonial rule of Korea (1910-1945), the movie spotlights the heroic attempts of Korean independence fighters who battled fearlessly for freedom and justice in defiance of their colonial rulers.