The political crisis in South Korea is having unintended consequences for the country's cinemas, as customers stay away in droves.

Huge weekly demonstrations against President Park Geun-hye in Seoul and other major cities, in which hundreds of thousands have called for her to resign, have also kept people away from movie theatres, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper reports.

Korean Film Council statistics for November show a $36.3m (£28.8m) drop in box office takings month-on-month; while more than 17m tickets were sold in October, that fell to just 8.56m in November, the newspaper says. While November is traditionally a slower month as studios save their biggest features for the Christmas holidays, the number of tickets sold is still significantly lower than the same period in 2015.