PYONGYANG/SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean musicians will hold their second and last performance in Pyongyang on Tuesday, this time jointly with North Korean artists, amid thawing tension on the Korean Peninsula. The 160-member troupe will start the two-hour-long concert titled “Spring Comes” at 3:30 p.m. (South Korean time), about an hour earlier [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The video for GOT7′s has surpassed 200 million views on YouTube Tuesday, the band’s management agency said. The title track off GOT7′s third EP, released in 2015, passed the threshold at about 1 p.m., JYP Entertainment said. GOT7 now have two music videos that have garnered more than 100 million views – the other being “If You Do.” [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The spouse of actress Choi Ji-woo is a IT company worker in his 30s, entertainment industry sources said Tuesday. Fans remained curious about the groom after the 43-year-old star had a surprise wedding at an undisclosed place Thursday. Little is known about the groom except that “he is a [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it clinched a contract with South Korea’s popular K-pop band BTS to promote its smartphones in the global market. Under the agreement, BTS will promote LG Electronics’ smartphones, including a new flagship model expected to be unveiled in June, through advertisements and various other [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Actor Park Bo-gum held a fan meet-and-greet event in Seoul over the weekend, his agency said Monday. Blossom Entertainment said the meeting was held in Grand Peace Palace at Kyung Hee University in Seoul over two days and was attended by 8,000 fans. During the event, he shared his daily life through video clips, had a Q&A session and took to the [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Joy, a member of K-pop act Red Velvet, will not perform at upcoming concerts in Pyongyang featuring South Korean artists due to scheduling conflicts with her TV show, the singer’s agency said Friday. “Due to Joy’s filming of the MBC TV drama ‘The Great Seducer,’ four members — Wendy, [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop group BTS and rising classical pianist Cho Seong-jin have been named among Asia’s 30 most influential people under the age of 30 in entertainment and sports this year. BTS and Cho were included in Forbes’ “30 Under 30 Asia” list in the entertainment and sports category, which was [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop girl group BLACKPINK will hold its first Japanese tour in July, its agency said Tuesday. The three-city concert series, “BLACKPINK Arena Tour 2018,” will kick off at Osaka-jo Hall in Osaka on July 24, according to YG Entertainment. The quartet will later head to Fukuoka and Chiba. The tour will be comprised of six shows in total. BLACKPINK landed one of the most successful debuts in the K-pop scene in 2016, storming multiple [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The official music video for “Boy in Luv” from BTS exceeded 200 million views on YouTube on Tuesday, becoming the eighth video by the K-pop sensation to pass the threshold, the group’s agency said. The video of the title track off BTS’ second EP “Skool Luv Affair” topped 200 [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Yonhap) — Red Velvet will sing two of its latest hits, “Red Flavor” and “Bad Boy,” during two rare performances by a South Korean troupe in Pyongyang next week, sources well informed of the shows said Monday. They said the girl group submitted a list of five or more songs to a [...]