SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BTS’ live concert movie will be available on big screens globally in February, film distributor CJ CGV said Tuesday. “BTS: Yet To Come in Cinemas” captures the best moments from the band’s free concert titled “Yet to Come” held in the southern port city of Busan on [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy group NCT Dream’s special winter EP, “Candy,” has surpassed 2 million copies in preorders, the group’s agency, SM Entertainment, said Monday. A subunit of the K-pop supergroup NCT released the six-track EP digitally Friday and will release it physically later Monday. It marks NCT Dream’s first [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope of K-pop sensation BTS will perform on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” an annual New Year’s Eve special show by ABC TV, its entertainment agency Big Hit Music said Friday. He will sing three songs, his solo “= (Equal Sign)” (2022), “Chicken Noodle Soup” (2019) and a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Chan-wook’s romance thriller “Decision to Leave” has been nominated for best foreign film for this year’s Critics Choice Awards. According to the nominations announced by the Critics Choice Association on Wednesday (U.S. time), the Korean film starring Park Hae-il and Tang Wei was listed in the best foreign [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Suga of K-pop sensation BTS will carry out his military service as a social service agent, military and music industry sources said Tuesday. They said the 29-year-old rapper was assigned to be a social service agent instead of an active-duty soldier. But details, including when his enlistment will be, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Local cable channel JTBC’s corporate drama “Reborn Rich” has broken past the 20 percent mark to achieve the highest viewership ratings this year with its intriguing revenge plot by a man who is reincarnated into a rich family and achieves success with his future insight. The drama starring top [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — RM, leader of the K-pop supergroup BTS, has made it onto U.S. Billboard’s two main charts for his first solo album, “Indigo.” The album, released Dec. 2, debuted at No. 15 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for this week, while its lead track “Wild Flower” began at No. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean film “Decision to Leave” has been nominated as the best non-English language film at the 80th Golden Globe Awards slated for January. According to the nominations announced by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association on Monday (U.S. time), Park Chan-wook’s romantic thriller was named in the category, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Jin, the first member of the K-pop group BTS to serve in the military, has released a photo of himself with a military haircut ahead of his enlistment. Jin took to Weverse, an online community platform for K-pop fans, on Sunday night to post the photo with a caption, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group Loona will drop a new album next month for the first time as an 11-member group following the expulsion of Chuu, its agency said Monday. The album set to hit music services on Jan. 3 will mark the first release from the group since “Flip That” [...]