"Mother" opens big with Korean box-office record

Thriller film "Mother" has claimed the top spot for Korean movie openings this year, drawing in more than 220,000 attendees in its first day (May 28). This breaks the April 30 opening of Park Chan-wook’s vampire-horror film "Thirst", which recently won a jury prize at Cannes, which drew in 178,000 people on opening day. Kim Hye-ja plays the determined mother out to rescue Won Bin, the mentally slow son accused of murder.

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