SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group ITZY will debut in the Japanese market next month with a new album, according to its agency JYP Entertainment on Monday. The agency announced the group will release a Japanese-language compilation album titled “IT’z ITZY” on Dec. 22, including its hit numbers, such as “Dalla Dalla,” [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s “Boombaya” has surpassed 1.3 billion YouTube views. The video, released in August 2016, hit the milestone at 9:34 a.m. Monday, 146 days after passing the 1.2 billion mark, according to the group’s management agency, YG Entertainment. “Even though four years have [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Big-name K-pop companies saw their revenues from overseas rise sharply in the first half of the year, financial data showed Monday, as the number and influence of overseas-based fans grew to a point where they can determine the rankings of local music charts. According to data available on the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean actor Lee Byung-hun has won a U.S. entertainment award for Asian and Asian American contributions to film and television, the event organizer said Friday (Korean time). Lee was included in the list of recipients of the U.S.–Asia Entertainment Summit and Game Changer Awards, along with Bela Bajaria, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superband BTS has been nominated for three categories in this year’s American Music Awards, including for the top Artist of The Year prize for the first time. In the 2021 AMA nomination list released Thursday (U.S. time), BTS was recognized in the Artist of The Year, Favorite Duo [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A two-day Korean culture festival will bring together K-pop acts like NCT Dream and aespa next month to provide comfort to people around the world who are exhausted from COVID-19, the culture ministry said Wednesday. “The K-Culture Festival – 2021 World K-pop Concert” will take place at the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizswire) — K-pop supergroup BTS delivered a message of hope to its global fans Sunday during an online concert livestreamed from an empty stadium in Seoul to prevent the spread of COVID-19. “BTS Permission To Dance On Stage” was the group’s first global online concert in about a year since the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — After making an impressive debut on Billboard’s main albums chart with its previous album, K-pop boyband Seventeen now has a bigger ambition for its new songs: the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200. The 13-member group on Friday dropped the seven-track album, “Attacca,” fronted by main track “Rock [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superband BTS will hold an online concert, “BTS Permission To Dance On Stage,” this weekend, featuring fresh up-to-date viewing technologies, its management agency said Friday. The seven-piece act’s performance on a scale equivalent to an offline concert will be livestreamed from a local stadium Sunday, according to Big [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Three South Korean TV series, including “Squid Game,” have made it on the top 10 popularity list on Netflix, continuing the recent global popularity of Korean content on the global media streaming platform. According to data by streaming analytics firm FlixPatrol on Monday (U.S. time), the survival drama “Squid [...]