• June 1996: Establishment of Mediaplex Co., Ltd. to enter the movie business. • November 1999: Establishment of
Megabox to enter the movie theater business. • January 2002: Establishment of Showbox brand and start of movie distribution investment. • December 2002: Their first film
Sex Is Zero premiers and becomes the fifth most popular film of 2002; selling 4 million tickets. • February 2004:
Taegukgi premiers and hits a new record of 11.74 million tickets sold. • August 2005:
Welcome to Dongmakgol premiers and becomes (at the time) as the fourth highest grossing South Korean film of all time; selling 8 million tickets. • July 2006:
The Host premiers and setting a new record of being (at the time) the
highest grossing South Korean film of all time; selling 13 million tickets. • July 2007:
Megabox is sold to
Macquarie Investment Fund. • August 2007:
D-War premiers and setting a new record of being (at the time) the highest-budgeted South Korean film of all time; selling 8.42 million tickets. • February 2008:
The Chaser premiers and sells 5 million tickets. • July 2009:
Take Off premiers and becomes the 2nd most attended film of the year in South Korea; selling 8.39 million tickets. • February 2010:
Secret Reunion premiers and becomes one of the highest grossing Korean films of 2010; selling 5.5 million tickets. • January 2011:
Detective K: Secret of the Virtuous Widow premiers and becomes the 4th best selling Korean film of 2011; selling 4.78 million tickets. • February 2012:
Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time premiers and sells 4.71 million thousand tickets. • July 2012:
The Thieves premiers and becomes (at the time) as the fifth highest-grossing movie in Korean film history; selling 12.9 million tickets. • May 2013:
Secretly, Greatly premiers and breaks several box office records in South Korea: the highest single day opening for a domestic film, most tickets sold in one day for a domestic film, the biggest opening weekend, the highest-grossing webtoon-based film, and the fastest movie to reach the million, two million, three million, and four million marks in audience number; selling 4.71 million tickets. • September 2013:
The Face Reader premiers and became one of the highest-grossing films in South Korea in 2013; selling 9.1 million tickets. • May 2014:
A Hard Day premiers and sells 3.44 million tickets. • February 2015:
Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island premiers and the 9th highest-grossing film of 2015; selling 3.87 million tickets. • March 2015: entered into an exclusive partnership with one of the biggest Chinese entertainment companies,
Huayi Brothers, and expanding its way to China and a co-produced partnership with the
Hollywood genre movie studio
Blumhouse. • June 2015: Changed the company names from
Showbox Mediaplex Co., Inc. to
Showbox Corporation, in a step to unify the brand name. • March 2019: Showbox entered the
drama production industry. It signed a consignment deal with generalist network
JTBC, being the second film company to do so (the first being
NEW). ==Releases==