SEJONG, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — At a trade fair exhibiting Korean goods in Bangkok last month, whenever a customer came to the small booth where he was promoting beauty products, Jake Choi would use his smartphone to show them a video clip as part of his sales pitch. The three-minute video includes a scene [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Breaking out of a long legal battle with his former management agency, Kang Daniel, a pivotal member of the now-defunct boy band Wanna One, hit the summer music scene Thursday with his first solo album “Color On Me.” Kang wrote the lyrics for the four out of the total [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS has been nominated for American TV channel MTV’s 2019 Video Music Awards in four award categories, the TV channel’s website showed Wednesday. “Boy With Luv,” BTS’ latest single featuring Halsey, is competing in the best collaboration category for the fan-voted music awards whose final awards [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A family court on Monday approved a divorce settlement for high-profile star couple Song Hye-kyo and Song Joong-ki, allowing them to get legally divorced. The Seoul Family Court held a closed-door hearing over the divorce arrangement for the couple but did not provide details, in accordance of the wishes [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super band BTS will perform solo concert in Saudi Arabia in October, becoming the first non-Saudi Arabian artists to perform at a stadium in the country, its management agency has said. BTS announced the Saudi Arabian leg of their ongoing “Love Yourself: Speak Yourself” world tour on Sunday, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super band BTS’ four concerts in Japan this month drew a total of 210,000 fans, making the Japanese leg of the band’s world tour a solid success despite worsening trade and diplomatic rows between South Korea and Japan. On Saturday and Sunday, the Korean septet rocked Shizuoka’s 50,000-seat [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Mina, a Japanese member of K-pop girl band TWICE, will not be part of the band’s ongoing world tour from this week due to health issues, the band’s management agency said Thursday. “Mina is suddenly feeling extreme psychological tension and enormous anxieties about being on stage,” JYP Entertainment said [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Kangin, a scandal-ridden member of long-running K-pop boy band Super Junior, said Thursday he will leave the team, ending his 14-year membership. The 34-year-old, whose real name is Kim Young-woon, broke the news on his Instagram account. “I decided to leave behind the title, Super Junior, with which I [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — T.O.P of South Korean boy band BIGBANG was released Saturday from his alternative military service, which had turns and twists due to a marijuana conviction. BIGBANG’s main rapper, whose real name is Choi Seung-hyun, started his two-year mandatory military service as a conscripted police officer in February 2017. But [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea-Japan relations are deteriorating as the countries’ history-driven diplomatic row is widening to imperil their economic ties. Still, the neighbors’ cultural ties remain mostly unscathed, with K-pop artists accomplishing unprecedented feats in the Japanese pop market. On Thursday, “Lights/Boy With Luv,” the new Japanese single album by globally-loved [...]