SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Veteran K-pop girl group T-ara might be banned from using its name as the group’s former management agency sought the exclusive right to use the name Monday. MBK Entertainment applied for the trademark rights to the name “T-ara” with the Korean Intellectual Property Office on Dec. 28, according to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop group BTS has been on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for five consecutive weeks with “Mic Drop,” breaking its own record as the longest-charting K-pop group on the U.S. music publication’s main singles chart. “Mic Drop,” featuring hip-hop artist Desiigner and remixed by Steve Aoki, has come in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Solji of K-pop group EXID will undergo surgery for exophthalmos, her agency said Thursday. “Solji will undergo exophthalmos surgery next Monday. Her thyroid hormone level has returned to normal but she has shown symptoms of bulging eyes,” Banana Culture Entertainment said. The timing of her comeback will be decided [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Boy band BIGBANG’s Taeyang and his actress fiancee Min Hyo-rin will tie the knot in a church on Feb. 3, the singer’s agency said Thursday. YG Entertainment said the couple will have a wedding party at Paradise City hotel in Incheon after a private ceremony at the church they [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop girl band MAMAMOO will release its first new single in six months next week, its agency said Friday. RBW said the song, titled “Paint Me,” is about their wish to “paint” the new year together with fans. The agency unveiled a teaser image on its social media accounts. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group missA has disbanded, their agency said Wednesday, the latest in a series of recent band breakups in the industry. JYP Entertainment announced that the four-member girl group have decided to call it quits after seven years in the business. Debuting in July 2010 with “Bad Girl Good [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Girl group TWICE will put out a new Japanese-language single album titled “Candy Pop” on Feb. 7, its agency said Friday. It will be the group’s first album of 2018, JYP Entertainment said. TWICE debuted in Japan on June 28 with the compilation album “#TWICE.” It was certified “platinum” [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Boy band INFINITE will release its third full-length album next month, the group’s management agency said Friday. “Top Seed,” due Jan. 8, will be its first full-length album since it was reorganized into a six-member group following the departure of member Hoya, Woolim Entertainment said. Debuting in 2010 as [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The death of K-pop superstar Jonghyun from SHINee has sparked a debate over deep-rooted problems facing the K-pop industry. In a suicide letter released by his best friend Nine9 from rock band Dear Cloud, Jonghyun said he was ‘broken from inside’ and that ‘depression slowly began eating away at me [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — RM, leader and rapper of the K-pop group BTS, has collaborated with the American pop punk band Fall Out Boy for a remix of the latter’s song “Champion.” “SURPRISE! New RM Champion remix out everywhere Friday at midnight,” Fall Out Boy wrote on its Twitter account on Thursday (local [...]