SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop girl band MAMAMOO will release its first new single in six months next week, its agency said Friday. RBW said the song, titled “Paint Me,” is about their wish to “paint” the new year together with fans. The agency unveiled a teaser image on its social media accounts. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group missA has disbanded, their agency said Wednesday, the latest in a series of recent band breakups in the industry. JYP Entertainment announced that the four-member girl group have decided to call it quits after seven years in the business. Debuting in July 2010 with “Bad Girl Good [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Girl group TWICE will put out a new Japanese-language single album titled “Candy Pop” on Feb. 7, its agency said Friday. It will be the group’s first album of 2018, JYP Entertainment said. TWICE debuted in Japan on June 28 with the compilation album “#TWICE.” It was certified “platinum” [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Boy band INFINITE will release its third full-length album next month, the group’s management agency said Friday. “Top Seed,” due Jan. 8, will be its first full-length album since it was reorganized into a six-member group following the departure of member Hoya, Woolim Entertainment said. Debuting in 2010 as [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The death of K-pop superstar Jonghyun from SHINee has sparked a debate over deep-rooted problems facing the K-pop industry. In a suicide letter released by his best friend Nine9 from rock band Dear Cloud, Jonghyun said he was ‘broken from inside’ and that ‘depression slowly began eating away at me [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — RM, leader and rapper of the K-pop group BTS, has collaborated with the American pop punk band Fall Out Boy for a remix of the latter’s song “Champion.” “SURPRISE! New RM Champion remix out everywhere Friday at midnight,” Fall Out Boy wrote on its Twitter account on Thursday (local [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The “Descendants of the Sun” star Song Joong-ki has been chosen as the top television actor of the year in an annual poll released Thursday. Gallup Korea canvassed 1,700 people aged 13 or over across the country from Nov. 8 to 28 and Song took the top spot, gaining [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group EXO will release its seasonal winter album “Universe” next week, its agency said Thursday. “Universe” will be released Dec. 21 in digital and physical formats, and will feature seven songs, including the lead rock ballad track “Universe,” according to S.M. Entertainment. The group has put out [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Girl group BLACKPINK’s music video for “As If It’s Your Last” was the most popular K-pop video on YouTube in 2017, according to the U.S. online streaming giant Wednesday. YouTube announced that the BLACKPINK video, published on June 22, topped its list of most-viewed K-pop videos in 2017. The music video has racked up more than 198 million views. BTS took the second, third and fifth spots, with “DNA,” “Not Today” [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Actor Park Bo-gum was named the winner of the achievement award for promoting South Korea abroad during this year’s tourism awards ceremony, the organizers said Tuesday. The 24-year-old actor was announced this year’s winner of the prize at the 2017 Korea Tourism Awards co-hosted by the Ministry of Culture, [...]