SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group BTS will perform at a 40,000-seat stadium in New York City as part of their upcoming world tour, their management agency said Thursday. The band will hit New York City’s Citi Field on Oct. 6 on the American leg of their upcoming world tour, according to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Conventionally known as uncharted territory when it comes to K-pop, India’s interest in the music genre is said to be growing and local newspapers and magazines have been churning out features on Korean pop music in light of the Korean Wave that is headed that way. The Economic Times, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Long-running boy band Shinhwa will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut with the release of a new album and concert performances this year, their management agency said Wednesday. The sextet debuted in 1998 as one of the first boy bands formed by SM Entertainment and emerged as one [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) -- K-pop star Psy beat Seoul’s sweltering heat wave Friday night with his signature summer concert, “Swag Show,” while soaking tens of thousands of spectators in cold water. “The weather is too nice,” Psy screamed out as he appeared onstage for the first leg of his three-day Seoul show at [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — KCON, the annual global festival of the Korean Wave, or the global popularity of Korean pop culture, will expand into Thailand this year to tap into the broader Southeast Asian region with 650 million people, the festival’s organizer said Thursday. The KCON 2018 Thailand will open Sept. 29 for [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop superstars BTS’ upcoming album, “Love Yourself: Answer,” claimed the No. 1 spot in the CD category of the biggest American online retailer Amazon.com in the first day of preorders, its management agency said Thursday. Preorders for the new BTS album, set for release on Aug. 24, began Wednesday, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — With K-pop music breaking global music records, the number of international students who arrived in South Korea last year to study Korean also reached an all-time high. And for the first time, the number of language students surpassed those who were in the nation to earn an academic degree. [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Top-rung K-pop girl band TWICE’s new song, “Dance the Night Away,” took local music charts by storm Tuesday in less than a day after its release. The main song of the nine-track album “Summer Nights” dropped at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, landing atop the music charts at seven major [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Wooyoung of boy band 2PM enlisted in the Army for his mandatory military service Monday, his management agency said. The 29-year-old singer entered a boot camp in Yanggu, Gangwon Province, at 2 p.m. for five weeks of basic training before starting his military service as an active soldier. In [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The K-pop boy band BTS will hold a photo and video exhibition in Seoul marking the fifth anniversary of its debut, its agency Big Hit Entertainment said Monday. BTS will showcase photos showing them working on albums, photos taken by the seven members themselves and video clips featuring various [...]