SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The “Descendants of the Sun” star Song Joong-ki has been chosen as the top television actor of the year in an annual poll released Thursday. Gallup Korea canvassed 1,700 people aged 13 or over across the country from Nov. 8 to 28 and Song took the top spot, gaining [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group EXO will release its seasonal winter album “Universe” next week, its agency said Thursday. “Universe” will be released Dec. 21 in digital and physical formats, and will feature seven songs, including the lead rock ballad track “Universe,” according to S.M. Entertainment. The group has put out [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Girl group BLACKPINK’s music video for “As If It’s Your Last” was the most popular K-pop video on YouTube in 2017, according to the U.S. online streaming giant Wednesday. YouTube announced that the BLACKPINK video, published on June 22, topped its list of most-viewed K-pop videos in 2017. The music video has racked up more than 198 million views. BTS took the second, third and fifth spots, with “DNA,” “Not Today” [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Actor Park Bo-gum was named the winner of the achievement award for promoting South Korea abroad during this year’s tourism awards ceremony, the organizers said Tuesday. The 24-year-old actor was announced this year’s winner of the prize at the 2017 Korea Tourism Awards co-hosted by the Ministry of Culture, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group BTS has made the list of the top 10 musicians in the United States for 2017, according to American music publication Billboard. BTS ranked No. 10 on Billboard’s Top Artists year-end chart this year, as seen on the company’s website Monday (local time). Ed Sheeran and Bruno [...]
CHUNCHEON, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Actor and singer Jang Keun-suk has been chosen as an honorary ambassador for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics. Jang will represent the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, as well as tourism in Gangwon Province, after receiving a plaque in celebration of his appointment at an event held [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop sensation BTS unveiled a new song meant to promote Seoul overseas on Wednesday, drawing huge Internet traffic that caused the temporary outage of its host Web site. The song titled “With Seoul” was uploaded for free download at noon on the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s tourism promotion site, www.visitseoul.net. The site crashed within minutes of release and remained inaccessible for hours, according to officials. The boy group has been [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Singer-songwriter Zion.T said Monday he was honored by industry veteran Lee Moon-sae signing off on a duet with him, praising him as a pioneer who defined the sentiment of modern Korean pop music. “He’s a senior artist that I dearly love and admire, so I dared myself to ask him. I told him I heard hallucinations of his voice [...]
(image: Mnet) SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Girl group TWICE has won the Song of the Year Award at the Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) for the second-consecutive year with “Signal,” according to the music television network Thursday. The nine-member act was announced as the winner of the highly coveted award Wednesday at Yokohama [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Kora Bizwire) – K-pop star Taeyeon has caused a multi-vehicle traffic accident in Seoul, according to police and her agency Wednesday. The singer of the idol group Girls’ Generation rear-ended a taxi while driving her Mercedes in southern Seoul around 8 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Gangnam Police Station. The taxi crashed into an Audi that was infront from the impact. Two passengers in the taxi and the driver [...]