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Seoul City’s Promotional Video Featuring BTS Tops 100 mln Views

Seoul City’s Promotional Video Featuring BTS Tops 100 mln Views

SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A promotional video of K-pop superstars BTS introducing the South Korean capital topped 100 million views in the first 10 days of its release, the Seoul city government said Thursday. The video, which launched Sept. 11 on the city’s tourism platform and social media channels, had racked up 104,893,115 views [...]

Let’s Live On: BTS Urges the World’s Youth to Persevere in Pressing Times of COVID-19

Let’s Live On: BTS Urges the World’s Youth to Persevere in Pressing Times of COVID-19

SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super group BTS on Wednesday presented a special message at the 75th United Nations General Assembly, urging the world’s youth to remember and seek out their dreams despite the challenges that they may face from the COVID-19 pandemic. “Now more than ever, we must remember who we are [...]

Boy Band Monsta X to Promote Korea Cultural Heritage via YouTube

Boy Band Monsta X to Promote Korea Cultural Heritage via YouTube

SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop band Monsta X will star in an online video series aimed at promoting treasured Korean cultural heritage overseas, according to cultural heritage authorities Wednesday. The YouTube series, titled “Korean Heritage Travelog,” will premiere next Tuesday and will feature the six-member K-pop group alongside Seo Kyoung-duk, a liberal arts [...]

K-pop Buzz on Twitter Grows Substantially Despite COVID-19

K-pop Buzz on Twitter Grows Substantially Despite COVID-19

SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite COVID-19 having bogged down the global entertainment industry at large, the conversation and buzz surrounding K-pop on the social media platform Twitter has increased substantially in volume in the past year, according to data from the company Tuesday. The number of K-pop-related tweets from July 2019 to June [...]

Catching Fire: How BTS Finally Vaulted into U.S. Radio Airwaves with ‘Dynamite’

Catching Fire: How BTS Finally Vaulted into U.S. Radio Airwaves with ‘Dynamite’

SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super group BTS is no stranger when it comes to smashing album sales and breaking music streaming records. But against its colossal brand recognition, the one nagging caveat for BTS especially in the West had been its lack of ample presence on radio airwaves — a key index [...]