SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Fans are wondering how Park Soo-Jin and Bae Yong-Joon could have announced their engagement after only three months of dating, and how they could have kept their upcoming nuptials a secret. KeyEast published a notice about their engagement on its web site on May 14, without any prior mention [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Bae Yong-Joon, the first big Korean wave star, will marry Park Soo-Jin, an actress who started her career as a singer in girl group Sugar in 2002. Park started acting after moving to the Sidus HQ agency in 2006, following Hwang Jung-Eum’s departure from Sugar in 2004. The [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean actor Bae Yong-joon, the star of the hugely popular TV drama “Winter Sonata,” will marry Park Joo-jin, a singer-turned-actress, later this year, their management agency said Thursday. “The two had known each other before and began a serious relationship in February,” Keyeast said in a release posted [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A forthcoming South Korean TV soap starring heartthrob Kim Soo-hyun will go into service on the Chinese portal website Sohu.com later this week, according to sources familiar with the show Monday. “As Sohu.com, the operator of the popular Chinese Internet portal, took part in the project as an investor, it has [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy group BigBang’s two new singles hit the top two spots of Billboard’s World Digital Songs’ chart, which was updated Thursday. “Loser” and “Bae Bae,” both from the group’s new single album “M,” ranked No. 1 and No. 2 on the list less than a week after [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean girl group Kara‘s new Japanese album ranked first on the Oricon daily singles chart Tuesday, the day of its release, according to the group’s agency. “Summergic,” the 12th Japanese-language single album by Kara, topped the chart, selling over 28,000 copies that day, the DSP Media said Wednesday in [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The popularity of Korean pop culture abroad helped increase production of the country’s cosmetics, gaming, tourism and beverages industries by billions of won in 2014, data showed Sunday. The growing popularity of hallyu, or the Korean wave, the name for Asianwide popularity of Korean pop culture, has been making inroads [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A K-pop festival hosted by South Korea’s leading content and media company CJ E&M will expand to the east coast of the U.S. from the west coast this summer, the company said Tuesday. KCON launched in 2012 and has quickly developed to be North America’s largest annual Korean cultural festival that [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Yuri, a member of K-pop group Girls’ Generation, has admitted she is in a relationship with baseball player Oh Seung-hwan, the group’s management agency said Monday. “Having met through acquaintances at the end of last year, the two are now getting to know with each other with good feelings,” [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Gary from Korean hip-hop duo Leessang has been selected as a commercial model for Chinese portal site QQ.com. The “Running Man” star became the first Korean brand spokesperson for QQ. According to Leessang Company, Gary, who enjoys popularity in Greater China thanks to the SBS entertainment program Running Man, was [...]