South Korea

There are 122 premium screens in South Korea, across IMAX, Chain premium screen, Lotte Cinema Super Plex G and CGV Starium. The biggest picture is at CGV Yongsan I'Park Mall IMAX — 672 m² of lit screen, 48% more than the next room.

One room — CGV Yongsan I'Park Mall IMAX — can show the full 1.43:1 IMAX frame. Everywhere else in the country crops to 1.90, which is roughly a quarter less picture on a film shot for it.

Worth knowing before you book: CGV Cheonho & IMAX never lights 30% of its screen. The fabric is bigger than the picture, which is why the ranking here is by lit area rather than by the dimensions cinemas advertise.

25 of 122 publish their dimensions; the rest are scored on an estimate and marked as such. 2 of 122 have a projector confirmed by two independent sources. 3 rooms are digital with the generation never established — we say so rather than guessing which laser it is.