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 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Ive, one of the hottest rookie girl groups, droped its third single “After Like” Monday, drawing attention to whether the new track will be the group’s third straight hit. According to Starship Entertainment, the group’s agency, the single is composed of two songs — the title track and “My [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s 2017 hit song “As If It’s Your Last” has surpassed 1.2 billion views on YouTube. YG Entertainment said Monday the video passed the threshold at about 7 p.m. the previous day, five years and a month after it was uploaded on [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroups BTS and BLACKPINK have been nominated for group of the year in the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, the U.S. music channel has announced. The two K-pop bands will compete for Best Group Of The Year with City Girls, Foo Fighters, Imagine Dragons, Maneskin, Red Hot Chili [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s new single “Pink Venom” debuted atop iTunes charts in 69 countries around the world, the group’s agency said Saturday. YG Entertainment said the song, released the previous day, ranked No. 1 on iTunes Top Songs charts in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Oceania [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK, the top girl group in the world, is back Friday with “Pink Venom,” the first release from its upcoming second full-length album, after an almost two-year hiatus. During an online press conference held a few hours before the song’s release at 1 p.m., BLACKPINK said the song portrayed [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean legal drama “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” has topped Netflix’s latest weekly viewership chart of non-English TV shows for the third consecutive week, the global video streaming service said Wednesday. The TV series, which has aired every Wednesday and Thursday on the cable channel ENA since June 29, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK will perform at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards in the United States, according to the group’s agency Tuesday. YG Entertainment said the quartet is preparing a special performance at the annual event slated for Aug. 28 (local time) in the U.S. BLACKPINK will be [...]