SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy group BigBang’s two new singles hit the top two spots of Billboard’s World Digital Songs’ chart, which was updated Thursday. “Loser” and “Bae Bae,” both from the group’s new single album “M,” ranked No. 1 and No. 2 on the list less than a week after [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean girl group Kara‘s new Japanese album ranked first on the Oricon daily singles chart Tuesday, the day of its release, according to the group’s agency. “Summergic,” the 12th Japanese-language single album by Kara, topped the chart, selling over 28,000 copies that day, the DSP Media said Wednesday in [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The popularity of Korean pop culture abroad helped increase production of the country’s cosmetics, gaming, tourism and beverages industries by billions of won in 2014, data showed Sunday. The growing popularity of hallyu, or the Korean wave, the name for Asianwide popularity of Korean pop culture, has been making inroads [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A K-pop festival hosted by South Korea’s leading content and media company CJ E&M will expand to the east coast of the U.S. from the west coast this summer, the company said Tuesday. KCON launched in 2012 and has quickly developed to be North America’s largest annual Korean cultural festival that [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Yuri, a member of K-pop group Girls’ Generation, has admitted she is in a relationship with baseball player Oh Seung-hwan, the group’s management agency said Monday. “Having met through acquaintances at the end of last year, the two are now getting to know with each other with good feelings,” [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Gary from Korean hip-hop duo Leessang has been selected as a commercial model for Chinese portal site QQ.com. The “Running Man” star became the first Korean brand spokesperson for QQ. According to Leessang Company, Gary, who enjoys popularity in Greater China thanks to the SBS entertainment program Running Man, was [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Riding Hallyu, or the Korean Wave, cosmetics products have developed into strong moneymaking export items as they set records for exports and trade surplus last month. According to the Korea Customs Service, the value of cosmetics exports in March was US$277.5 million, the largest amount since the office began [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean actress Jun Ji-hyun is on the cover of the forthcoming issue of Elle magazine to be published in six Asian countries, the fashion magazine’s Korean office said Wednesday. Elle Korea released the cover photos of the 34-year-old actress, which will become available in the April issue of the magazine’s [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — CL, a member of popular South Korean girl group 2NE1, ranked No. 2 on TIME magazine‘s online voting for its 100 most influential people of 2015 list, according to the magazine’s website Tuesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin ”edged out rapper-singer CL to claim the number one spot with 6.95 percent [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean girl group KARA will release their first album in nine months in May, the group’s agency said Tuesday. The group will release their seventh EP, the latest album by the group since August when their sixth EP “Mama Mia” hit the market, DSP Media said. The title of [...]