SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for “Solo,” an individual single from Jennie, a member of popular girl group BLACKPINK, has topped 800 million views on YouTube, a first for any female K-pop solo artist. The video hit the milestone Thursday at 3:24 a.m., three years and four months after it was [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean legal drama “Juvenile Justice” topped Netflix’s weekly viewership chart of non-English TV shows for the second consecutive week, the global video streaming service said Wednesday. The 10-part Korean-language series marked 25.9 million hours of viewing for the week of March 7-13 to lead Netflix’s official top [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup BTS will take the stage for the annual Grammy Awards for the third consecutive year, organizers have said. The South Korean group was among the artists announced by the U.S. Recording Academy on Tuesday (U.S. time) to perform during the 64th awards ceremony on April 3. Other [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — New girl group Ive will release its second single album “Love Dive” on April 5, the group’s agency Starship Entertainment said Tuesday. The K-pop agency posted a teaser image about the upcoming record on social media. It will mark the first release from the six-piece group since its debut [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — JYP Entertainment, the K-pop label behind TWICE and Stray Kids, said Tuesday it has established a U.S. branch to expand its reach to the North American market. “We have set up JYP USA to secure a foothold in the North American market, where the K-pop base continues to expand, [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group (G)I-dle returned to the music scene as a five-piece group Monday after a nearly one-year hiatus and the departure of a member over a bullying scandal. The band dropped its first full-length album “I Never Die,” composed of nine tracks, at 6 p.m. “I was looking [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Suho, the leader and a lead vocalist of K-pop juggernaut EXO, will drop his first individual EP in more than two years early next month, his agency said Monday. “Grey Suit,” Suho’s second individual EP, will come out on April 4, SM Entertainment said, adding the album will have [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Fashion Week, set to kick off this week, will be introduced on the global streaming platform YouTube’s official fashion and beauty vertical for the first time as a fashion week event in Asia, the city government said Monday. The SFW, organized by the Seoul city government, is South [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Three members of K-pop girl group Red Velvet — Irene, Joy and Yeri — have tested positive for COVID-19, leading to the cancellation of all two concerts scheduled for the weekend, the group’s agency said Monday. The members recently tested positive through self-test kits and then underwent polymerase chain [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean sensation “Squid Game” has won best non-English language TV series and best actor at this year’s Critics Choice Awards. At the ceremony held by the Critics Choice Association in Los Angeles on Sunday (U.S. time), “Squid Game” was named Best Foreign Language Series and its lead [...]