



By Dong Sun-hwa







"The Divine Move 2: The Wrathful" took first place at the local box office, accumulating more than a million ticket sales as of Monday.







The movie, a thriller over the subject of "baduk," or a Chinese board game, has sold more than 1.07 million tickets since its premiere on Nov 7, according to the Korean Film Council. It drew around 680,000 moviegoers during the weekend (Nov. 9-10).







The flick outperformed the blockbuster "Terminator: Dark Fate," starring Hollywood heavyweight Arnold Schwarzenegger. Some 300,000 people watched the movie on Saturday and Sunday.







"The Divine Move 2: The Wrathful" is a spinoff of the 2014 film "The Divine Move." For the 2019 version, actor Kwon Sang-woo assumes the role of desolate baduk player "Gwi-soo," who plays "live or die" games with his competitors. Actors Kim Hee-won and Woo Do-hwan also appear.







"I stayed alone at the shooting site to be immersed in the character," Kwon said during the movie's press event in October at the Yongsan CGV in Seoul.

