SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — With four episodes left before the end of the hottest TV drama “The Producers” starring Kim Soo-hyun, the local TV industry’s attention is on how much the series will earn. The 12-episode KBS drama about television producers who make KBS TV’s popular reality shows and their stars has drawn [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Who is the hottest South Korean pop star on Instagram, an online mobile photo-sharing and video-sharing service? The answer is popular idol group EXO‘s Chanyeol, according to data released by Instagram Thursday. The data showed that Chanyeol received 97 million replies and “likes” during a year from May 25, last [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — ABC News has zoomed in on contributing factors to K-pop’s success and shed light on a major South Korean entertainment agency’s system for training wannabe idol stars. “The young ones with talent and potential are chosen by big entertainment agencies like S.M. Entertainment known for its intense training program [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Jeollabuk-do Provincial Government is set to develop a sound industry cluster where sound production, speech recognition and musicology research can have a solid ground. As the Korean music industry imports virtually all of its sound producing techniques and related software, even though K-Pop is growing popular worldwide, the provincial [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – At the start of “King of Mask Singer,” a variety show by MBC, a famous comedian said, “’King of Mask Singer’ will bring about a revolution for Sunday entertainment programs.” His prediction seemed somewhat exaggerated, but it wasn’t a bad guess. “King of Mask Singer” is a Korean singing [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean cosmetic products are expanding their presence in China on the back of the Korean Wave and competitive beauty products, becoming the second most sold in Asia’s second-ranked but fast-growing beauty market, data showed Monday. Out of $686.2 million worth of cosmetics China imported in the January-March period, [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Fans are wondering how Park Soo-Jin and Bae Yong-Joon could have announced their engagement after only three months of dating, and how they could have kept their upcoming nuptials a secret. KeyEast published a notice about their engagement on its web site on May 14, without any prior mention [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Bae Yong-Joon, the first big Korean wave star, will marry Park Soo-Jin, an actress who started her career as a singer in girl group Sugar in 2002. Park started acting after moving to the Sidus HQ agency in 2006, following Hwang Jung-Eum’s departure from Sugar in 2004. The [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean actor Bae Yong-joon, the star of the hugely popular TV drama “Winter Sonata,” will marry Park Joo-jin, a singer-turned-actress, later this year, their management agency said Thursday. “The two had known each other before and began a serious relationship in February,” Keyeast said in a release posted [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A forthcoming South Korean TV soap starring heartthrob Kim Soo-hyun will go into service on the Chinese portal website Sohu.com later this week, according to sources familiar with the show Monday. “As Sohu.com, the operator of the popular Chinese Internet portal, took part in the project as an investor, it has [...]