SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – YG Entertainment, one of Korea’s top three talent agencies, is expanding its business portfolio into cosmetics just after a month of its launch of a fashion brand. On October 22, YG Entertainment opened its flagship store of cosmetics brand “Moonshot” in Samcheong-dong in northern Seoul, which is famous for numerous [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – “SMTown Live World Tour IV,” an ongoing 2014 worldwide concert tour by SM Town, ended successfully in Shanghai following Seoul and Tokyo. Over 30,000 fans flocked to Shanghai Indoor Stadium to watch “SMTown Live World Tour in Shanghai” at 5 p.m. on October 18, SM Entertainment reported. At the [...]
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SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean television dramas have widely been beloved across Asian countries from China to Japan to the Philippines to Indonesia for the past few years with a series from “Autumn in My Heart” in 2000 to the most recent “My Love from the Star.” Now dramas from South Korea dubbed [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul Lantern Festival that has drawn a record number of visitors — about 2.5 million spectators every year since the year 2009, has established itself as one of Seoul’s major festivities. The Seoul Metropolitan Government intends to promote the lantern festival as a special culture and tour occasion in November [...]
“As is applicable to other entertainment programs, it will be better, to my understanding, if we drop the program when the audience most loves it. I don’t want to direct the final episode when there is nothing but indifference or finger pointing left.” “Although it was low in viewer ratings at the beginning, we have managed this program [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Following a scandal surrounding G-Dragon who was caught dating with a Japanese model that brought down the share price of YG Entertainment, this time it was SM Entertainment’s turn to suffer a setback owing to a legal dispute with its star singer Lu Han. On October 10, SM Entertainment stock [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Hangul, the Korean alphabet featuring 24 consonant and vowel letters, has been disseminated to foreign countries, driven by its rising international awareness, and its greater incorporation into various fields including art and fashion, increasingly proving its cultural excellence both at home and abroad. The nation’s banking industry also began to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A fan club of a member of popular K-pop group EXO prepared a special birthday present for the idol star. To commemorate the birthday of EXO’s Chinese member Lay which fell on October 7, the members of Lay’s fan club “Must Plan” made 110 corn socks dolls by themselves and [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — It is reported that Jessica, a member of Girls’ Generation, has been forced out. Jessica posted a message in both English as well as Korean on her Sina Weibo on September 30, saying, “I was excited about our upcoming fan events only to shockingly be informed by my company [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27(Korea Bizwire) – Ailee dubbed as a Korean “Beyonce” came back with her third mini album and its title track “Don’t Touch Me” swept the No. 1 title in nine major music streaming sites in Korea including Melon, Genie, Mnet.com, Soribada and Bugs. Before releasing the title track, Ailee received media attention with 10-kg [...]