SEJONG, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The opening ceremony of South Korea’s biggest shopping festival, “Korea Sale Festa,” will be held in Seoul next month, along with various concerts and exhibitions to draw more visitors and shoppers from overseas, the trade ministry said Wednesday. The event will take place on Yeongdong Daero (Boulevard) in southern [...]
TAEBAEK, South Korea, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Taebaek city has seen a dramatic increase in tourists since the official opening of a filming site of “Descendants of the Sun,” city officials said Monday. Tourists have visited the remote city in Gangwon Province to check out the filming site of KBS 2TV’s sensationally popular series [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Outbound shipments of food, beauty, fashion and personal care products soared in the first half of the year on the back of the growing popularity of the Korean wave, or hallyu, industry data showed on Monday. According to the data compiled by the Korea International Trade Association (KITA), exports [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – An online pop-up store featuring leading South Korean fashion brands has been opened on the largest online fashion-focused portal in Southeast Asia to help Korean design houses enter the Southeast Asian market, industry officials said Friday. The “Premium Korean Fashion” pop-up shop was launched in Singapore the previous day [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean zombie flick “Train to Busan” became the 11st most-viewed film in South Korea, drawing more than 11 million in attendance, data showed Thursday. The movie directed by Yeon Sang-ho has garnered 11,007,065 viewers until Wednesday, the 29th day of its run, according to the computerized box-office figures from [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean hit television show “Reply 1988″ drew 200 million views in the month since its China launch in June, government data showed Thursday. The latest version of the drama-comedy “Reply” series on cable network tvN has raked in a total of 235 million views from June 20 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s two hottest idols, Zico and Seolhyun, confirmed to be an item, their management agencies said Wednesday. According to Seven Seasons and FNC Entertainment, the management agencies for Zico of boy band Block B and Seolhyun from girl group AOA, respectively, the two idols “became attached to and relied [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – “It took me 14 hours to get to L.A.,” said 17-year-old Conny, who flew all the way from her home in Argentina for the annual K-pop convention KCON that took place in Los Angeles last weekend. The popularity of Korean culture has grown considerably in South America over the past [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Globally followed South Korean actor Lee Min-ho and his actress girlfriend Suzy denied breakup rumors, their agencies said on Monday. After Lee’s agency MYM Entertainment and Suzy’s JYP Entertainment directly asked the star couple, both agencies told Yonhap that the breakup rumor is groundless. The separation rumor ignited after [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean pop singers Psy and Rain, as well as the boy band WINNER were honored during a Chinese music awards ceremony, their management companies said Friday. Psy and Rain received the “Tencent Video Best Concert” and “Best Overseas Artist” awards, respectively, during the MTV Asia Music Gala 2016 [...]