SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS on Friday released the first teaser video for its new album slated for Feb. 21. The group uploaded “Interlude: Shadow,” the first trailer of its fourth full-length album “Map of the Soul: 7″ on its YouTube channel at 12 a.m. Friday. In the three-minute video, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super band BTS will drop a new digital single this month ahead of its official release of a new album in February, according to the band’s management agency Thursday. Big Hit Entertainment posted a “comeback map” on the official BTS website early Thursday morning, providing the timeline of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 180,000 fans visited a BTS pop-up store during its 80-day run in Seoul, the management agency of the K-pop boy band said Wednesday. The pop-up store, “House of BTS,” operated from Oct. 18 till Sunday in the bustling commercial and entertainment district of Gangnam in southern Seoul to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Sung-kyu, the leader of boy band INFINITE, will return to show business following his discharge from the military Wednesday. Kim, also known by his stage name Sungkyu, officially completed his 20-month defense duty at the Army 22nd Division in Goseong, Gangwon Province. Some 1,300 fans from China, Japan [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — In the whirlwind of A-list K-pop groups’ releases in April 2018, a unlikely 2017 ballad topped the charts of major online music stores, raising many a fan’s eyebrows. Even amid the heated competition between such top-rung bands as TWICE, WINNER and EXO-CBX, a subunit of EXO, who dropped new [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — X1, a South Korean boy band, decided Monday to disband amid a vote-rigging scandal involving a cable TV audition show, through which it debuted five months ago. In a brief press release, Starship Entertainment, MBK Entertainment and seven other management agencies representing its 11 members said they decided to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean snacks are increasingly gaining huge popularity in the global market as more consumers are addicted to new flavors and opted to pick up more Korean products in line with the Korean Wave, industry officials said Sunday. Exports of local snack products were tallied at US$43.14 million in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Popular K-pop band BIGBANG will make a much-awaited comeback to the stage at a U.S. music festival this spring after its members completed their military duties, the group’s agency said Friday. The act was invited to this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, in April, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The much-anticipated high-profile year-end K-pop shows by three major TV broadcasters last week were overshadowed by a series of accidents, including a girl band member’s fall from a stage. The decadeslong annual live K-pop shows stand as major broadcasting events to mark the end of the year and have [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Hee-chul of boy band Super Junior and girl group TWICE’s Japanese member Momo are in a romantic relationship, the artists’ management agencies confirmed Thursday. “After getting along as close colleagues of show business, the two have recently started liking and dating each other,” Kim’s agency, Label SJ, said. [...]