SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Wave is set to make a splash in the inland areas of China. Omgworld, a Korean retail business consulting company, plans to advance into Hohhot, the capital city of China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, by distributing K-wave related products jointly with a local Chinese department store. Omgworld announced [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Internet-based cable service Olleh TV has announced the best-ten dramas and reality shows for the past one year in celebration of the one-year anniversary of the launch of the unlimited over-the-air channel program package. The top drama for the past one year from July 2013 to June 2014 was Empress Ki. The [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — “1theK” (pronounced as “wonder kay”), the YouTube K-pop channel, said on July 8 that it broke the 1-billion viewer number and unveiled a video “Thank You for 1 Billion Views” celebrating the milestone. 1theK aims to create a wider fan base for K-pop songs and other entertainment contents among global audiences. [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop girl group f(x) has made much anticipated return to the audience with their third full-length album, Red Light, which will be unveiled on July 7th. The teaser for Red Light, which has garnered more than 2 million hits in 22 hours of its showing on the Youtube site, features [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – A new girl group armed with Korean traditional music is gaining people’s attention as the next leader to boost the Korean Wave. The girl group, Sorea Band, which performed as a special guest at a K-wave conference on July 1 jointly held by KBS and the Korean Society for Journalism [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – AOA, a seven member K-pop girl group, released its new song and music video “Short Hair” on June 19. The members transformed themselves as cheerleaders and showed their cute and sexy appearance. Especially in the music video, they showed of three kinds of dances called “some dances.” Those are [...]
![[Feature] Jun Ji-hyun and Kim Soo-hyun under Hot Water for Their Commercial Contract](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Jun-Ji-hyun-and-Kim-Soo-hyun-from-My-love-from-the-star-800x510.jpg "[Feature] Jun Ji-hyun and Kim Soo-hyun under Hot Water for Their Commercial Contract")
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Jun Ji-hyun (Jianna Jun) and Kim Soo-hyun, South Korean Hallyu superstars and most sought-after celebrities nowadays, have been in serious trouble for their recently sealed contract with a Chinese company. The famous duo from “My Love from the Star” signed an ad contract with a Chinese mineral water maker Hengda [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop singer IU successfully finished her first live concert at a small theater since her debut. From May 22, her live concert themed “Just one step, just that much more” ended with the June 1 finale performance. In the video, we can appreciate her clear voice and beautiful live accompaniment [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – “Technique alone doesn’t make a good singer. You can be a good singer no matter how old you are and where you have come from, nor how experienced you are.” Koreans were recently amused with a mysterious ‘grandpa’ who came out of nowhere and made a touching singing performance on [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – By attracting more than 40 million viewers on YouTube as of June 12, Psy’s music video for his new song “Hangover” seems on pace to hit another “home run” following “Gangnam Style.” In the music video, Psy and rapper Snoop Dogg comically describes Korean culture of drinking and it [...]