SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — “We are preparing to set up a subsidiary in Vietnam,” said Han Se-min, the CEO of SM Entertainment, on September 11 in Hanoi. The remarks by the head of the country’s No.1 entertainment company came during a panel discussion at the Korea-Vietnam Business Cooperation Seminar on September 11. “We [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — An outpost to publicize Korean fashion to the rest of the world will be established in the Soho district of Manhattan in New York city, the mecca of global fashion. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) will fund “The Selects”, which [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS on Friday dropped a music video of their latest song, “Idol,” featuring American rapper Nicki Minaj. The new video updated on YouTube is an extended edition of the original version of the song’s video released two weeks earlier but has additional images of the American [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean-American rapper Park Jae-beom, also known as Jay Park, performed at the annual Made in America (MIA) music festival in Philadelphia, the United States, as its first Korean contributor, his management agency said Tuesday. “Park was invited to MIA to perform for its Sept. 2 event as the first [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS left for the United States on Monday on its world tour as it scored its second No. 1 title on the Billboard 200 Albums chart with its latest work, “Love Yourself: Answer.” The seven-member K-pop sensation is set to perform at Staples Center in Los [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — JYP Entertainment, the home for top-rung girl band TWICE, beat its long-time rival SM Entertainment to emerge as the biggest entertainment firm by market capitalization for the first time in nearly two decades this week. Following steady growth since early this year, shares of JYP finished at 31,300 won [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — JYP Entertainment, the South Korean entertainment giant led by music producer Park Jin-young, will be holding auditions on a global scale in the United States and Canada. Park’s company announced yesterday plans to hold “2018 JYP Global Auditions” in four cities in North America. The first audition will be [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The K-pop boy band BTS’ new album, “Love Yourself: Answer,” is poised to hit the world music scene Friday with its main track that blends South African dance music with traditional Korean beats and the sounds of a folk music instrument. The final, fourth part of the septet’s “Love [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video of K-pop girl band BLACKPINK’s “DDU-DU DDU-DU” has surpassed the threshold of 300 million YouTube views just two months after its release. The feat was achieved on Thursday, 68 days after the release of the song and its umbrella album, “Square Up,” setting the record the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group Red Velvet will begin a tour of three Asian countries with a concert in Bangkok on Sept. 8, the group’s agency said Tuesday. The tour is an extension from the group’s solo concert, titled “Redmare,” held in Seoul on Aug. 4-5. After Bangkok, the tour will [...]