SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — In celebration of the return of the South Korean girl group BLACKPINK, landmarks in major cities around the globe, including Seoul, Tokyo and New York have turned pink, its management agency said. YG Entertainment said Sunday that it hosted the Light Up The Pink event that has lit up [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Cultural Center Indonesia on Friday hosted an event where participants paraded the streets wearing hanbok, the traditional Korean attire, in Jakarta. The participants strolled around major areas in Jakarta wearing hanbok, promoting the garment’s beauty and its symbolism of Korean culture to Indonesians. The center called for [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK has won in two categories at the MTV Video Music Awards, one of the biggest U.S. pop music awards, becoming the first K-pop girl group to accomplish the feat. The South Korean group lifted the trophies for Best Metaverse Performance and Best K-pop during this year’s event held [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The city government of Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city, is busy establishing transportation, safety and quarantine measures for an unprecedentedly large audience at the BTS concert there in October, officials said Monday. K-pop superstars BTS recently announced a massive live concert in Busan, 450 km southeast of Seoul, on [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s “Pink Venom” passed 200 million views on YouTube on Saturday, its management agency said. The video for its latest single released Aug. 19 hit the milestone at 2:11 a.m., according to YG Entertainment. It achieved the feat in the second shortest [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop stars are making inroads in Latin America. Boy band T1419 released a new song in Spanish titled “When the Sun Goes Down” last month, starting its offensive in the Latin American market. Girl group Momoland, from the same agency as T1419, joined hands with well-known singer-songwriter Natti Natasha [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Popular K-pop girl group TWICE will return Friday with its 11th EP, “Between 1&2,” the group’s management agency said. The album consists of seven tracks connected under the theme of the bond between ONCE, the group’s global fandom, and TWICE as the title “Between 1&2″ implies, according to JYP [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for BTS’ 2021 megahit single “Butter” has surpassed 800 million YouTube views, becoming the eighth video from the K-pop group to hit the milestone. The video passed the 800 million threshold at about 4 p.m. Thursday, about 15 months after it was uploaded online on May [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Girl group BLACKPINK’s upcoming second full-length album “Born Pink” has sold over 2 million copies in preorders, its agency said Thursday. “This is a record for K-pop female acts of all time,” YG Entertainment said. “We can expect the album to break 3 million with about three weeks left [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — India opened up its second Korean language master’s program with the Korean wave sweeping the globe. Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi recently held a faculty meeting to introduce the master’s program in the Korean language. The university has selected 25 new students for the Korean language master’s [...]