(21st Century Fox Korea)
(21st Century Fox Korea)

The British-American spy comedy "Kingsman: The Golden Circle" had the biggest opening day for an R-rated film in South Korea, data showed Thursday.According to the real-time box-office tally from the Korean Film Council, the Fox movie sold 481,891 tickets on 1,686 screens across the country, taking the box-office crown on its first day.It surpassed the first-day record of 475,482 set by the South Korean crime action film "Asura: The City of Madness" last year. The "Kingsman" sequel outperformed the 2015 original's opening with 78,058 views.It pushed down to second the local comedy-drama "I Can Speak," which sold 126,554 tickets on 933 screens the same day.The movie about Korean women who were sexually enslaved by Japanese World War II soldiers, however, topped 1 million in attendance on the seventh day of its run. (Yonhap)