SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Big Hit Entertainment, which manages K-pop boy band BTS, on Friday unveiled the first member of a new boy band it is set to launch. Big Hit uploaded photos of and an introductory film about the new band’s first member, Yeonjun, on its website and social media accounts, as [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS became the first South Korean boy band to hit 600 million views on YouTube with the music video for their song “DNA”. Big Hit Entertainment said that the music video reached 600 million views at 7:18 p.m. on Wednesday. The music video uses various transitional effects as if [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of dedicated global fans of “hallyu,” or the Korean Wave, is estimated to have surged to about 90 million at the end of last year, a government-affiliated foundation said Thursday. The Korea Foundation said in a report that there were 1,843 hallyu fan clubs in 113 countries [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Cosmic Girls, also known as WJSN, returned to the K-pop scene Tuesday with its new EP “WJ Stay?,” which brings out the colorful and dazzling sides of the band’s 10 members. The EP’s lead track “La La Love” is a retro pop song woven with sentimental string sounds that [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS finished the year 2018 as the second-highest album seller in the United States, behind Eminem, U.S. data showed Tuesday. The 2018 report on U.S. Music Industry Consumption by Buzz Angle Music showed BTS sold 603,307 albums last year, coming after the top seller Eminem’s 755,027. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Apink, one of the front-running K-pop girl groups, will release their new album this week, the latest part of the band’s efforts to tweak their long-established angelic concept, the group members said Sunday. “In our initial days, we dealt with innocent and lovely appeals, (but) going forward, we plan [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao M, a Kakao Corp. subsidiary specializing in content-making, will hold an audition to form a next-generation boy band. Kakao M announced on Thursday that it will hold the Kakao M Boy Audition at the Starhill Building in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, on January 19. The audition will include vocal performances, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Kang Daniel, a member of the now-disbanded popular K-pop boy band Wanna One, drew more than 1 million followers within little more than 11 hours of opening his personal Instagram account, his feed showed Thursday. Kang launched the account on Wednesday as he gears up for a solo career [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Hwang Chi-yeul, a leading light in the phenomenal popularity of Korean pop culture worldwide, will release a new album this month, the second full-length record of his 12-year music career, his management agency said Wednesday. The 37-year-old Hallyu star will return with the release on Jan. 21, according to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Rising actor and TV show star Lee Kwang-soo has been dating actress Lee Sun-bin for five months, the former’s management agency acknowledged Monday. The two Lees “have been dating passionately for five months … since they first met through SBS TV show ‘Running Man,’” according to Kingkong By Starship. [...]