SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The K-pop album market has been experiencing an unprecedented boom but the sales of digital music have been sluggish amid the coronavirus pandemic. According to the year-end data released by Korea’s album sales tracker Gaon Chart on Wednesday, the nation’s top 400 albums sold 57 million copies in and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s global phenomenon “Squid Game” has earned four nominations, including the top prize of best ensemble, from the U.S. Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards. SAG on Wednesday (U.S. time) unveiled its final list of nominations for its 28th edition of the awards ceremony slated for Feb. 27. “Squid [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Only less than two weeks have passed since the start of the New Year, but the K-pop scene is already busy with news of rookie girl groups getting global attention or preparing for their official debuts. One of the hottest is Ive, the Starship Entertainment-managed group that made its [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean movie and a TV series have been officially released in Chinese theaters and via a local streaming platform for the first time in about six years, raising cautious hopes that the yearslong cultural freeze between the neighboring countries is thawing. The comedy film “Oh! My Gran” [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Enhypen returned with a repackage album Monday after spending a successful year as a rookie group with less than two years since its debut. Released in October last year as the first part of the group’s new “Dimension” album series, the group’s first full album, “Dimension: Dilemma,” has since [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — O Yeong-su has won best TV supporting actor at this year’s Golden Globe Awards for his role in “Squid Game,” becoming the first South Korean actor ever to secure an acting trophy at the American awards show. In the winners list of the annual awards event thrown by the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS has grabbed the honor of having the most sold digital song of the year in the United States for the second time. “Butter” was the most sold digital song of the year in the country with 1.89 million downloads sold, according to an annual year-end report [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS sold more than 1 million copies of its latest Japanese compilation album, data showed Thursday, becoming the first South Korean pop singers to achieve the feat since 2005. According to the data from Japanese music market tracker Oricon, the album titled “BTS, The Best” added 3,000 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean sci-fi horror “The Silent Sea” was the most-viewed non-English TV show over a recent one-week period among those on Netflix, the global video streaming service said Wednesday. The drama topped Netflix’s official weekly chart for non-English TV programs with 47.8 million hours of viewing for the week [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – V, a member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, is about to make it onto the Billboard main singles chart for this week with his individual single “Christmas Tree.” The song will debut at No. 79 on the Hot 100 for this week, Billboard said on its Twitter on Tuesday [...]