SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Hong Kong branch of the famous wax museum Madame Tussauds has recently added a figure of Jackson, a Hong Kong member of the global K-pop boy band GOT7, the band’s management agency said Tuesday. The new figure is currently on display in the museum’s Hong Kong Glamour room, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super stars BTS went on a long-term break to recharge themselves following the band’s Billboard-topping back-to-back album releases, its management agency said Monday. “Group BTS will have its first official long-term vacation since its debut,” Bit Hit Entertainment said on the band’s Twitter account and mobile fan application [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — V, a member of the globally celebrated K-pop boy band BTS, released his English solo song “Winter Bear” on Saturday. The new song was put up on BTS’ official social media for free download, along with a music video. V, whose real name is Kim Tae-hyung, composed the song [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — In collaboration with an affiliate of American entertainment giant Universal Music Group, South Korea’s biggest music label SM Entertainment will unveil a new boy band in October that will bring together highly accomplished artists under its wing. Under the joint project with the U.S.-based Capitol Music Group (CMG), home [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Mnet Asian Music Awards, or MAMA, the biggest annual K-pop awards series held outside of South Korea, is reconsidering Japan and Hong Kong as its destinations for this year’s event, according to the event’s organizer. Having been among the biggest consumers of K-pop outside of Korea, Japan and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — An unprecedentedly large number of high-profile K-pop concerts and album releases are set to hit Japan from August onward as K-pop is enjoying a heyday in the neighboring country, but an accelerating trade row between Korea and Japan is feared to pose uncertainty over their future. Pushing its diplomatic [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korean K-pop sensation BTS is returning to the silver screen with its documentary film “Bring The Soul: The Movie,” people are waiting to see whether the boy band can join other local movies to break the monthslong Disney dominance at the local box office. “Bring The Soul” [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Two top-tier K-pop stars, Jihyo of girl band TWICE and solo artist Kang Daniel, confirmed Monday that they are in a romantic relationship. Early Monday, a news outlet released photos of the two stars on a date near Kang Daniel’s home in Hannam-dong in central Seoul. Within a few [...]
INCHEON, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The municipality of Incheon, west of Seoul, is planning to build a massive tourist complex in a hilly coastal area just west of Incheon International Airport after designating it as a free economic zone, officials said Friday. According to the Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority, the new tourist complex, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Explosive K-pop girl band ITZY dropped Monday its first EP whose title track is a collaboration among multiple high-profile K-pop composers. The record, “IT’z ICY,” is the four-member band’s first EP since its debut in February with two singles, including “Dalla Dalla.” “Dalla Dalla” set a record as a [...]