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Busan film festival closes with 277,027 visitors, most since 2015
Organisers say attendance was up about forty thousand on last year, though only two hundred thousand forty-three visitors came for screenings; the rest apparently just came.
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- First reported by South China Morning Post: “Busan 2026: 10 of the festival’s best movies, from Midday Meal to Satoko Always”.
- Covered on BBN on Monday, October 19, 2026, at 10:25 AM ET on BBN Newsroom, by Chip Darnell and Vera Bullock.
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- South China Morning PostBusan 2026: 10 of the festival’s best movies, from Midday Meal to Satoko Always
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Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorBBN team coverage is live on the Busan International Film Festival, which closed Thursday with two hundred seventy-seven thousand twenty-seven visitors, the most since twenty fifteen.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat's about forty thousand more than last year, over ten days, with more than three hundred films from fifty-nine countries.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd look at our live map, folks. Every red dot is a person standing very close to a Palme d'Or winner.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe Manila Bulletin says only two hundred thousand forty-three of those visitors came to film screenings.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo what were the rest doing?
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThose are our walk-up guests, Chip. They came for the whole festival experience, minus the festival.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSeventy-six thousand nine hundred eighty-four people, and not one of them saw a movie.
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