Seeing a movie in Seoul

Movie prices differ from state to state and within the states from city to city.  Since I know San Francisco prices, I will refer to those.  Seeing a movie back home would cost $13.50 per movie, $21.00 for 3D I believe.  You also paid for your ticket right there at the ticket booth before the movie usually.  I decided to go see a movie in Seoul.  Again, the closest theater is in the Ipark Mall in Yongsan (take bus 151 to the Sinyongsan station stop) and walk to the mall.  The theater is located on the 6th floor near a shoe store and TGIFridays.

This is a ticket machine.  You can buy tickets here if you know how (I didn't know how.  It was confusing and there wasn't a very clear place to put money or a credit card).  

Here is a picture of a friend and I trying to figure out how to work this machine and get it to give us our tickets.  After spending about 15 minutes trying to figure it out and being called stupid multiple times by a Korean who was unwilling to provide any assistance, we decided to go to the ticket counter.  

To the right of the last picture is this(the ticket counter).  However, you must first get a number from the pillar right there in the middle of the picture and wait for your number to come up.  Similar to the way the banks and immigration office work.  We paid for our tickets and it was very convenient.  It was 10,000W per person (about $9.75) which is pretty good for a movie.  We saw Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.  

Here is a clear photo of the ticket counter (the clearest photo I could get anyway.  That guy stood there for a long time in that pose).  The people there waiting are there waiting to go see their movie.  Unlike back in America, we have to wait to be called back to a theater room.  We can't just go in and wait with 10 minutes to go.  

Here is a korean movie ticket (somewhat crumbled up though).  It is just a pink receipt showing what time the movie starts, what room, how many people and the price.  I bought it 4 hours early and unlike America, we reserve seats and get tickets for those seats.  

This is where the movie rooms are.  That black poster shows which rooms are now open and being called to enter to wait for their movie to begin.  

The inside of a movie room.  When we went in, we waited for about 10 minutes, then commercials came on and 5 minutes after the commercials, the movie began.  The commercials were very straight to the point movie ads with nothing like silence your cellphone or little animations.  Everyone was naturally really quiet an didn't move once during the movie.  I felt like I was being the loudest one in the room and all i did was eat a snack.  Besides the movie playing, it was the quietest movie theater I had ever been in.