CGV Cheonon Pentaport & IMAX
Cheonan-si · South KoreaSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 37/100 — a small room carrying a premium badge — it fails the large-format premise on size, whatever the projector, 96 m² of lit picture. That rests on a single source. Data read 21 September 2026.
196, Gongwon-ro, Seobuk-gu, Cheonan-si.
196, Gongwon-ro, Seobuk-gu, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, 31168 · Open in maps ↗
IMAX in name. Weigh it against the surcharge.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Laser XT
- Screen
- 13.5 m × 7.5 m (101 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.80:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- Not published
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- —
- Operator
⚠ LIEMAX — at 13.5m wide this is in the smallest tenth of IMAX screens worldwide (the median is 20 m), showing a 1.90 frame. Good projection can't buy back screen size.
Why IQ 37
How big, really?
Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m
- 1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
- 2BFI IMAX · 26×20 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
- 3CGV Cheonon Pentaport & IMAX · 13.5×7.5 m · picture 96 m², 5% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
1 double-decker bus fit on this screen (1 across × 1 up · 101 m² total)
What you actually see
Switch format — watch what lights up on this screen · why this matters
IMAX digital — what most “IMAX” showings actually are
- Screen
- 101 m²
- Picture
- 96 m²
- Screen used
- 95%
0.4 m of this screen — 5% of it — stays dark for a IMAX 1.90 showing. The projector here can't produce the full 1.43 frame, so the top and bottom of the screen are never used at all.
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
CGV Yongsan I'Park Mall IMAX
Seoul · 51 mi away
You'd get 586% more screen, the full 1.43 frame.
Megabox Anseong Starfield
Anseong · 16 mi away
Megabox Daejeon Shinsegae Art & Science
Daejeon · 34 mi away
Better screens within 75 mi
•Where to next
Also in Cheonan-si
Where this comes from
Single sourceWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- single source
- Projector
- single source
- Operating status
- verified open
The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.
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