SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Two South Korean rappers have been indicted on charges of smoking marijuana, prosecutors said Wednesday. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said rapper Iron, 24, is suspected of smoking the banned substance three times between December 2014 and March last year. Rapper Kidoh, 24, is also suspected of smoking [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Girls’ Generation will release a new song dedicated to its fans to celebrate its ninth anniversary, the idol group’s agency said on Tuesday. The eight-member K-pop act will roll out “That Summer” on Aug. 5 at 12 a.m. through digital music streaming channel Station, operated by the band’s agency [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – “Train to Busan,” one of the nation’s most attention-getting films this summer, has set a new one-day attendance record of all movies ever screened in the country, data showed Sunday. The apocalyptic zombie thriller drew an audience of 1,280,944 on Saturday alone, according to the computerized box-office figures from [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — From instant noodles to bread and beef broth soup, Korean food is gaining interest overseas from consumers outside of the usual group of Korean residents and a handful of Korea followers, a leading trade body said Monday. South Korea’s instant noodles, ramyeon, ranks second after Taiwan in the Chinese [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean film “The Tunnel” will get a screening at a non-competition section of this year’s Locarno International Film Festival, according to the festival’s official website on Thursday. The survival-drama movie, starring actors Ha Jung-woo and Oh Dal-su and actress Bae Doona, will be screened outdoors in the [...]
TAEBAEK, South Korea, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Descendants of the Sun, featuring actor Song Joong-ki and actress Song Hye-kyo, was by far the biggest K-drama hit in 2016. The series, which aired from February 24 to April 22 in Korea, recorded an average audience share of 30.09 percent, and has been exported to 32 [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese members of South Korean girl groups protested on social media platforms against the international court’s South China Sea ruling. Victoria, a K-pop girl group f(x) member of S.M. Entertainment, posted a map that includes the South China Sea in Chinese territory on her Instagram and Weibo accounts Tuesday. [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Police on Monday said they concluded Park Yoo-chun, the scandal-ridden member of K-pop boy band JYJ, is clear of sexual assault allegations, saying it is hard to acknowledge that there was coercion involved. The 30-year-old actor-singer has been mired in a scandal as four different women, all working at local [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean boy band BigBang was included on the Forbes’ list of the world’s 100 highest paid celebrities for this year. The U.S. economic magazine unveiled this in its article titled “Bigbang Theory: How K-pop’s Top Act Earned $44 Million In A Year” on Wednesday (on local time). It reported [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Liquor companies, barred from public spaces and airtime, are resorting to top celebrities for maximized advertisement effect, according to industry officials Tuesday. The government has been tightening regulations on liquor ads, revising the law on national health improvement. Recent changes include barring liquor ads on TV from 7 a.m. [...]