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#6,372 All-time worldwide
#184 2010 releases

Movie profile

The Yellow Sea

2010 · 156 min · Wellmade Starm

Drama Thriller Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $15.8M
Budget $8.2M
Gross minus budget $7.6M
ROI 1.93x

Domestic gross

$7.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$7.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Yellow Sea ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #6,372 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2010 releases #184 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2010. Primary genre #2,610 Drama of 5,859 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did The Yellow Sea (2010) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Yellow Sea (2010) earned a reported $15.8M worldwide against a reported $8.2M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $7.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.93x. In this database it currently ranks #6,372 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #184 among 2010 releases.

Worldwide gross
$15,789,762
Budget
$8,170,000
Gross minus budget
$7,619,762
ROI
1.93x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 22, 2010
Production
Wellmade Starm, Popcorn Film, 20th Century Fox Korea
Countries
KR

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2010, The Yellow Sea is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Thriller, Crime title from Wellmade Starm. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $15.8M, reported production budget is $8.2M, gross-minus-budget is $7.6M, ROI is 1.93x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,372 all-time in the current chart set and #184 among 2010 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.