SEOUL, June 3 (Yonhap) – South Korean DJ Soda released her debut EP under a contract with Warner Music Korea, the music recording company said Friday. Dubbed “Closer,” her EP was released on music streaming services on Thursday at midnight. The four-song album consists of the lead song “Kung Fu Dab,” “Interstellar Love,” “Ball Bullet” [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Fans of Song Joong-ki, one of Korea’s top actors, went ballistic when Hite Jinro – a major Korean distiller – held a charity golf event in which a billboard of the actor’s real-life image was installed in the middle of the fairway. Hite Jinro held a fundraiser golf competition [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul is hosting a K-pop dance festival this week amid the rising popularity of Korean pop culture worldwide, the metropolitan city government said Thursday. The five-day 2016 K-pop Cover Dance Festival, which kicked off Wednesday, has gathered some 13 teams from nine countries who made it to the semi-finals [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The popular K-pop boy group EXO will release its third studio album next month, the group’s agency said Tuesday. It will be the first album by the act in six months since “Sing For You,” a winter-seasonal special album came out in December. S.M. Entertainment said the album will drop [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A workshop to transfer South Korea’s fashion know-how to Indonesia will be held in the Southeast Asian nation this week, one of the event’s co-organizers said Monday. The Seoul-based ASEAN-Korea Center said it will co-host the event with Indonesia’s trade ministry. The ASEAN-Korea Center was launched by South Korea [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean music company YG Entertainment on Friday said it has attracted 100 billion won (US$85 million) in investment from the Chinese online giant Tencent and mobile ticketing service, Beijing Weiying Technology Co. YG said its CEO Yang Min-suk will sign an investment deal with Suman Wang, who is in [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Descendants of the Sun’ is a hit Korean military television series starring Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo. The series, which aired from February 24 to April 22 in Korea, was a huge success with an average audience share of 30.09 percent. The popularity of the series has increased public [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – S.M. Entertainment, the country’s largest talent agency, and a private institute will found an alternative international school for teenagers dreaming of becoming K-pop stars, the companies said Friday. S.M. signed a memorandum of understanding with Haneul Education Co. to open what is tentatively called the “K-pop international school” in [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The art director for the South Korean movie “The Handmaiden” has won an independent award at the 69th Cannes Film Festival, a film distributor here said Tuesday. Ryu Seong-hie, the art director for the thriller, captured the Vulcan Award of the Technical Artist, CJ Entertainment said. Ryu is the [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Ten South Korean designers will open a pop-up store at a renowned concept store in Paris next month, a local design foundation said Tuesday. The Seoul Design Foundation said the store, named “Seoul’s 10Soul,” will open at L’eclaireur in Paris on June 22 and run for three weeks. The [...]