SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Rose, a member of the K-pop group BLACKPINK, picked up two trophies, including Song of the Year, at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday (U.S. time). She won the honor for “APT.,” her collaboration single with global pop icon Bruno Mars, and accepted Best Group on behalf [...]
JEJU, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A Netflix animated feature has unexpectedly cast a centuries-old Korean craft into the global limelight. In K-Pop Demon Hunters, the boy band “Saja Boys,” rivals of the girl group protagonists, don traditional hats known as gat — and audiences worldwide have taken notice. One character’s performance, twirling a gat’s [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — “My Universe,” a collaboration single between boy group BTS and global pop icon Coldplay, has surpassed 1.5 billion streams on Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming platform, BTS’ agency said Tuesday. It became the second BTS’ group song with more than 1.5 billion streams following “Dynamite.” The two bands [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A drunken brawl in a neon-lit karaoke bar, a bottle of soju in hand, unfolds to the sound of ABBA’s “Dancing Queen.” It may look like a scene from a Korean drama, but it is in fact from Butterfly, a new American series that wears its Korean influences proudly. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Boy group Stray Kids has achieved double-million-seller status with its fourth full-length album, “Karma,” on the day of release, the group’s agency said Monday. JYP Entertainment said the album logged more than 2 million sales on Friday, immediately topping Hanteo’s weekly physical album chart and Circle Chart’s weekly retail [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and its luxury brand Genesis said Monday they have been named leading carmakers in terms of technology experience by U.S. market research firm J.D. Power. Hyundai ranked first for the sixth consecutive year among mass-market brands in the 2025 U.S. Tech Experience Index (TXI) study, scoring [...]
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Fresh off its record-breaking streaming success, Netflix’s animated film “K-Pop Demon Hunters” is storming into theaters — and drawing sold-out crowds. The Hollywood Reporter said Wednesday that a limited theatrical “sing-along” event, scheduled for August 23–24 across the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.K., has [...]
CHANGWON, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — At Hyundai Rotem’s test track in the southern city of Changwon last week, two K2 Black Panther tanks roared to life, spinning on the spot like soldiers in drill formation before surging down a straightaway at speeds of up to 70 kilometers per hour on paved roads. The demonstration came [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The runaway success of KPop Demon Hunters, a U.S. animated film released on Netflix in June, is driving a sharp rise in global curiosity about South Korea, with ripple effects expected across food, cosmetics and tourism. Google search data show that worldwide queries for “Korea” reached their highest level [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae Myung has met with a group of creatives behind the smash-hit Netflix animated film “KPop Demon Hunters” and pledged to cultivate South Korea’s cultural sector into one of the country’s core industries. Appearing on Arirang TV’s prerecorded program “K-Pop: The Next Chapter” aired Wednesday, Lee sat [...]