SEOUL, Dec 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Jessica, a former member of Korean girl group Girls’ Generation and creative director of fashion brand Blanc & Eclare, will launch the limited edition of a scarf collection under her name ahead of the end-of-the-year holiday season. The collection is available in select stores from December 3. The scarves, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – YG Entertainment, one of Korea’s top three talent agencies, signed an agreement with Tencent, China’s leading IT firm, to jointly produce and expand the distribution of K-wave content in China. On December 2, the two companies sealed the MOU for their strategic partnership in Hong Kong. According to the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean management agency KeyEast and Pandakorea.com, which sells Korean products to foreigners, have joined hand in hand to expand their business in the Chinese market. The star agency for many Korean actors and actresses including Kim Su-hyun, Bae Yong-jun and Han Ye-seul decided to invest 3.3 billion won, equivalent to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean singer Ailee and American R&B singer Eric Benet will keep in tune with each other this winter. The duo is getting ready to heat up Seoul with their harmonious singing at a collaboration concert called “Winter Concert” to be held at SK Olympic Handball Stadium in Songpa, Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean actor Lee Min-ho successfully wrapped up the Chinese leg of his “Reboot Lee Min-ho (RE:MINHO)” global tour on November 22 at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, joined by around 10,000 fans. The Shanghai concert was his sixth global tour, and the last one held in China. Lee plans to keep [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The SBS drama “Pinocchio” received a green light for overseas distribution by selling its distribution rights to China for a record amount. A spokesperson announced on November 24 that the drama sold its distribution rights to China’s largest video portal site, Youku Tudou, for US$280,000 per episode. SEE ALSO: [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Jong-kook, Korea’s singer and TV personality, was ranked No. 2 among most searched keywords on China’s Baidu search engine. Normally, the ranking was filled with idol star names from China and Korea, with no 30-something celebrities like him ever on the list. Kim gained fame after his appearance on [...]
SEOUL, Nov.20 (Korea Bizwire) – Ha Ji-won, Korea’s actress, appeared in a charity event held by Operation Smile, an international medical assistance organization specializing in cleft lip and palate repair surgeries, in Vietnam to celebrate its presence in the Southeast Asian country for 25 years. In a press conference and opening gala show held at Lotte Hanoi [...]
“This song has nothing to do with fanning hostility against Japan and instead was intended to promote reconciliation and overcoming of differences. I hope my gesture could show to everybody that this song praying for peaceful unification was produced for good ends and ultimately it may be used to improve the relationship between the two [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – K-wave star Lee Min-ho will receive the Prime Minister’s Award in recognition of his contribution of promoting Korean culture throughout Asia in the 2014 Korea Pop and Art Culture Award Ceremony. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced on November 11 the list of the award winners who [...]