SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent audio sampling controversy surrounding BTS member Suga’s new album shows that even global K-pop superstars are not bulletproof from potential public relations debacles. It highlights the inevitable risks associated with celebrities trying to step up their game on the international stage amid heightened calls for political correctness. [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — An online concert by K-pop boy group BTS, scheduled for later this month, will come with a “multi-view” feature, its agency said Monday. Big Hit Entertainment said the septet’s fan group, widely known as Army, will be able to enjoy the livestreaming event, Bang Bang Con the Live, from [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Girl groups Mamamoo and ITZY and solo male artist Kang Daniel were included in the lineup for the online edition of KCON, an annual K-pop and Korean culture festival scheduled to be held later this month, its organizer announced Monday. A total of 32 artists were confirmed to appear [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video of BTS’ 2017 hit song “DNA” topped 1 billion YouTube views on Monday, becoming the band’s first music video to surpass that milestone. “DNA,” the lead track of BTS’ 2017 album “Love Yourself: Her,” achieved the feat early Monday morning, according to the band’s label-management agency [...]
SACHEON, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Miniature-sized watermelons grown from suspended pots will soon be made available for South Korean consumers. Gyeongnam Sacheon Agricultural Development & Technology Center will begin selling fun-size watermelons grown via nutriculture through stores of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, better known as Nonghyup, in the southeastern city of Sacheon. These [...]
ANDONG, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, opened up a new bridge built with a traditional method using brushwood on Friday in the UNESCO World Heritage Andong Hahoe Folk Village, on the Nakdong River. The city had built a brushwood bridge in May of last year to celebrate the [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Department Store announced on Sunday that it had teamed up with the Ministry of Environment to launch the “Play Green Friends” campaign. The campaign, designed to promote the collection and reuse of plastic containers, will be carried out from June 5 to 11 at 15 Hyundai Department Stores [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Instead of going to a local post office to send a parcel, South Koreans will soon be able to go to an autonomous postal vehicle that makes its way around town for parcel shipping. The Ministry of Science and ICT and Korea Post announced Thursday that it will begin [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — “Sour Candy,” American pop singer Lady Gaga’s latest song featuring K-pop quartet BLACKPINK, reached the No. 1 spot on more than 50 Apple iTunes charts, according to the group’s management agency Friday. The song, part of Lady Gaga’s new album “Chromatica,” climbed to the top of the iTunes Song [...]
SUWON, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — According to a recent survey, the most popular accommodation type for domestic travel has changed from pensions to hotels since the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The survey of 1,000 people conducted by the Gyeonggi Research Institute indicated that hotels were preferred by 35.7 percent of the respondents, [...]