BUSAN, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The city government of Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city, is busy establishing transportation, safety and quarantine measures for an unprecedentedly large audience at the BTS concert there in October, officials said Monday. K-pop superstars BTS recently announced a massive live concert in Busan, 450 km southeast of Seoul, on [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s “Pink Venom” passed 200 million views on YouTube on Saturday, its management agency said. The video for its latest single released Aug. 19 hit the milestone at 2:11 a.m., according to YG Entertainment. It achieved the feat in the second shortest [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop stars are making inroads in Latin America. Boy band T1419 released a new song in Spanish titled “When the Sun Goes Down” last month, starting its offensive in the Latin American market. Girl group Momoland, from the same agency as T1419, joined hands with well-known singer-songwriter Natti Natasha [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Popular K-pop girl group TWICE will return Friday with its 11th EP, “Between 1&2,” the group’s management agency said. The album consists of seven tracks connected under the theme of the bond between ONCE, the group’s global fandom, and TWICE as the title “Between 1&2″ implies, according to JYP [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for BTS’ 2021 megahit single “Butter” has surpassed 800 million YouTube views, becoming the eighth video from the K-pop group to hit the milestone. The video passed the 800 million threshold at about 4 p.m. Thursday, about 15 months after it was uploaded online on May [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Girl group BLACKPINK’s upcoming second full-length album “Born Pink” has sold over 2 million copies in preorders, its agency said Thursday. “This is a record for K-pop female acts of all time,” YG Entertainment said. “We can expect the album to break 3 million with about three weeks left [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — India opened up its second Korean language master’s program with the Korean wave sweeping the globe. Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi recently held a faculty meeting to introduce the master’s program in the Korean language. The university has selected 25 new students for the Korean language master’s [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstars BTS will hold a massive live concert in Busan on Oct. 15 to support the southern port city’s bid to host the World Expo in 2030, the group said Wednesday. The septet said on K-pop fan community platform Weverse that the one-day concert titled “BTS <Yet to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — “Snowdrop,” a romance drama TV series starring Jung Hae-in and Jisoo of BLACKPINK, has been the most talked about K-drama in the world across the social media platform Twitter so far in 2022, the company said Wednesday. According to Twitter, “Snowdrop,” which aired on JTBC from December of last [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The hit legal drama “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” has topped Netflix’s latest weekly viewership chart of non-English TV shows for the fourth consecutive week even after it finished airing in South Korea, the global video streaming service said Wednesday. The TV sensation, which aired every Wednesday and Thursday on the [...]