SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Girl group Red Velvet’s latest “repackage album,” “The ReVe Festival: Finale,” has topped the iTunes album charts in 42 countries, its agency said Tuesday. The third of the five-member band’s “The ReVe Festival” trilogy, the 16-track album was released on Monday (Korean time) and includes four new songs — [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Turkey is the country that sees the most Korean broadcasting content among broadcasting hub countries with the potential to spread the Korean Wave. The Korea Communications Commission surveyed 2,355 local viewers in five countries, including the U.S., India, Canada, Turkey and Hungary, regarding Korean broadcasting content viewing experiences, viewing [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS created an economic effect worth 1 trillion won (US$860.7 million) with its latest three concerts in Seoul, an academic report showed Monday. The septet finished off its latest world tour, “Love Yourself: Speak Yourself,” with the final leg in Seoul where three evening concerts at [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Mino, a member of roaring boy band WINNER, officially debuted as a painter this week, the latest in a growing number of TV celebrities expanding their talent into the fine arts. An art exhibition including paintings by Mino, whose legal name is Song Min-ho began its run on Tuesday [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean cable channel Mnet said Wednesday that it will launch no new K-pop audition shows in the future amid a widening police probe into a vote-rigging scandal involving its popular competition series “Produce X101.” “We will refrain from producing audition programs,” Kang Ji-hoon from Mnet said in a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS will ring in the new year performing at the United States’ most-watched New Year’s Eve concert, the special program’s organizer has said. “Making 2020 right by ringing in the new year with BTS! Join us live from Times Square on New Year’s Eve,” the organizer [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Consuming Korean traditional cuisine, known as “hansik,” on a daily basis is effective for weight loss and lowering cholesterol levels, a study showed Wednesday. In an experiment conducted on participants who were strictly provided either hansik or western dishes, the average cholesterol levels of participants given hansik decreased 9.5 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The sensational global ascent of K-pop band BTS has brought to the fore the emergence of a new breed of globally connected, dedicated fans as represented by ARMY, the group’s fandom. Powered by the connectivity of the internet and social network services, ARMY engages in organized transnational operations to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A BTS pop-up store will be reaching the ARMY (BTS fans) in Mexico next week. Big Hit Entertainment, the agency managing global K-pop sensation BTS, announced that House of BTS in Mexico City will open at Plaza Carso, a shopping mall in Mexico City, from December 13 until January [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The management agency of girl band TWICE has warned of legal action against aggressive fans after a band member was injured by crowd of fans. “Today, there was an accident involving our artist, who fell over and got injured due to disorderly and excessive photo taking (by fans) at [...]