Seoul

There are 33 premium screens in Seoul, across IMAX, Dolby Cinema, Lotte Cinema Super Plex G / Super Plex / Super S and CGV Starium. The biggest picture is at CGV Yongsan I'Park Mall IMAX — 672 m² of lit screen, 43% 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 town 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.

5 of 33 publish their dimensions; the rest are scored on an estimate and marked as such. No projector here is yet confirmed by two independent sources, so treat the scores as indicative. One room is digital with the generation never established — we say so rather than guessing which laser it is.