SEOUL, Sep. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Seungri, a member of Korean popular boy group Big Bang, had a car accident around 3:30 a.m. on Friday in Korea. He was on his way back home after a launching party for Nonagon, a fashion collaboration brand made by YG Entertainment and Cheil Industries. It was reported that Seungri [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – T-ara released its new music video of the title track Sugar Free on its official Facebook and YouTube on September 10. The group shows club girl styles in the video. The girls’ first foray into the world of big room, a kind of electronic dance music genre which [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Learning Korean craze expands across America. According to the Korean Education Center (KEC) in New York, which opened the Korean Language Institutes during the weekend across America starting September 6, a rising number of U.S. citizens have enrolled in the weekend classes to learn more about Korea. The weekend [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A government official flying over from Singapore won the top prize on ‘Quiz on Korea,’ a quiz show in which foreigners around the world compete against one another about facts or knowledge relating to Korea. Cohosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), the [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean boy band N-Sonic wowed K-pop fans in India. N-Sonic is the first ever K-pop band to visit India, where the globally popular K-pop or K-wave does not have a great hold over, compared with other markets. On last August 30, N-Sonic performed at “K-POP Festival 2014 India” in [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – In an episode of popular make-over show “Let Me In” on a cable TV channel, a new Thai beauty has been born resembling the young Hwang Shin-hye, the show’s hostess. The program selects a woman or man with physical issues and offers them plastic surgery at no cost. The [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The fan club members of Yuna Kim, Korea’s figure skating diva, who called themselves “sungnyangi” (meaning “wolves”) have donated consistently for the past six years. In commemoration of Kim’s 25th birthday on September 5, they made a donation again of 11 million won to the Babo Nanum Foundation (meaning [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean film “Tazza 2: Hands of God” is planned to meet moviegoers in six countries including the United States, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Vietnam. Lotte Entertainment announced on September 4 that its latest film would be released in overseas markets starting from Los Angeles on September 19. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – A fan club for a member of K-pop boy group Beast will donate a well in Cambodia to celebrate his birthday. Dear JS, a fan café for Jang Hyun-seung comprised of his fans in their 30s, decided to dig a well in Cambodia on the occasion of his 26th birthday on [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Ladies’ Code, a Korean K-pop girl group, was involved in a fatal car accident in the morning of September 3. EunB, 21, one of the five members, was killed. Other members, Rise and SoJung, suffered severe injuries, while the other members, Asheley and Zuny sustained minor injuries. It is [...]