SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The culture ministry, and an affiliated government agency, said Friday they have unveiled a fashion collaboration between Korean designer brands and popular girl group Red Velvet at a showroom in New York City. “The Selects X Red Velvet,” unveiled on Feb. 21 (U.S. time), is the first collaboration from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Twitter Inc. said Friday that 5.3 billion tweets were created last year globally about K-pop. “Twitter continues to show that it’s the best place to find out what’s happening with K-pop and to talk about it with K-pop fans around the world,” the U.S. microblogging website said. Some of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SM Entertainment, a leading South Korean talent agency and music label, signed an agreement with a media branch of Indonesia’s CT Corp on Thursday to make inroads into the Southeast Asian country, the local firm said. Under the heads of agreement signed in Jakarta with Trans Media, the two [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS will carry out another concert tour of major cities in the United States, Europe and Japan starting in May, the band’s management agency announced Wednesday. The “Love Yourself: Speak Yourself” tour, which came after BTS’ successful, wider world tour last year, will bring the septet [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl band Red Velvet wrapped up its tour of five American cities and will set out on a tour of Canadian cities, the band’s management agency said Tuesday. The five-piece girl group’s latest United States tour started in Los Angeles in the first week of February. The band [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS drew some 380,000 spectators on the Japanese leg of the world concert tour “Love Yourself,” which hit four major Japanese cities, the band’s management agency said Monday. BTS wrapped up the “Love Yourself ~Japan Edition~” with the final stop at Fukuoka’s Yahuoku! Dome held from Feb. 16-17, according [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Sensational K-pop girl band BLACKPINK has debuted on U.S. television, performing live on CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the band’s management agency said Tuesday. The four-piece girl band staged live their latest, wildly successful song, “Ddu-Du Ddu-Du” on the late night CBS show on Monday (U.S. time) [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — ITZY, a new girl group managed by JYP Entertainment, officially debuted on Tuesday with an aim to replicate the wild success of groups that came before it, such as Wonder Girls and TWICE, both from the same K-pop label. The five-member teenage group unveiled their debut digital single, “IT’z [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The K-pop boy band sensation BTS called their debut on the Grammy stage on Monday a moment when their dreams came true, voicing their hope to return to the prominent music award ceremony in the future. “Growing up in South Korea, we always dreamed about standing on the Grammy [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A wave of new K-pop boy bands is poised to hit the music scene this year after the sensational success of K-pop boy band BTS proved the high potential of the market for boy groups, according to music labels on Sunday. BTS stormed into global consciousness with their two [...]