SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — “Girls,” the second EP from aespa, has broken the record for the biggest first week sales by a K-pop girl group in history, its agency said Thursday. The album set the record by selling more than 1.42 million copies in the first week of its release last Friday, SM [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean drama “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” has topped Netflix’s latest weekly viewership chart of non-English TV shows, the global video streaming service said Wednesday. The TV series, which has aired every Wednesday and Thursday on the cable channel ENA from June 29, marked 23.9 million hours of viewing [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The survival drama “Squid Game” earned 14 nominations including best drama series at this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards, becoming the first South Korean TV show to compete at America’s biggest honor for the broadcasting industry. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on Tuesday (U.S. time) unveiled the final [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Even 17 years after their debut, members of K-pop group Super Junior remained jolly and talkative, with their humorous remarks constantly drawing much laughter from the emcee, during an online press event in Seoul to promote a new album. “SM has a long history and has managed many artists, [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix will release four new Korean original variety shows in the second half as part of its strategy to strengthen its unscripted content lineup and diversify its local portfolio, a company official said Tuesday. “Many people have asked me whether Netflix has original Korean variety shows,” Netflix’s content manager [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — All members of TWICE have renewed their contracts with JYP Entertainment, breaking the so-called “seven-year curse,” a crisis experienced by many K-pop idol groups around the seventh year of their debut. “We renewed contracts with all members ahead of the expiration of TWICE’s contracts this autumn,” the agency said [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope, the first BTS member to launch a solo venture, entered the U.S. Billboard’s main singles chart with “More,” the chart has said. The song debuted at No. 82 on the Hot 100 chart for this week, Billboard said on social media on Monday (U.S. time). It came out [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Rising K-pop boy group Enhypen said Friday it will hold the first world tour since its debut, starting in September. The “Enhypen World Tour ‘Manifesto’” will kick off in Seoul from Sept. 17-18 and involve 12 more concerts in six major U.S. cities and three Japanese cities until November, [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Popular South Korean web-based comics are set to be adapted into animated series in partnership with Japanese productions amid rising global demand for Korean digital content. According to Kakao Entertainment, a subsidiary of Korean internet and entertainment giant Kakao, earlier this week, an animation adaptation of the action fantasy [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — “Jack in the Box,” the upcoming first solo album by BTS’ J-Hope, will contain a total of 10 tracks, the group’s agency Big Hit Music said Friday. According to the list unveiled by the agency, the album will have “Intro,” “More,” “Pandora’s Box,” “Stop,” “=,” “Music Box: Reflection,” “What [...]