SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup BTS will be unable to attend the 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMAs) scheduled for next week as the members have to go through COVID-19 isolation upon arrival from the United States due to tightened quarantine rules. The government decided to place all overseas arrivals under a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Kai, a member of popular K-pop boy group EXO, said Tuesday he wanted to show his new side “as sweet as a peach” in his new release as an individual artist. “If I had a weighty image as an EXO member and individual artist, I wanted to show a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean outbreak hit “Squid Game” won the best long-form TV series title at the Gotham Awards, becoming the country’s first winner at the U.S. awards ceremony for lower-budget indie movies and TV series. At the awards ceremony held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The government opened a metaverse-based online exhibition hall Tuesday to help overseas “hallyu” fans learn more about South Korea and its culture amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. “Korea World” will offer various articles and videos about Korean culture created by foreigners interested in the culture from around the world, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A slew of South Korean hit TV series, like the romantic comedy “Crash Landing On You,” will be remade in the United States amid the expanding worldwide reception for Korean-made content led by the sensation “Squid Game.” The 2019 smash hit rom-com, starring Hyun Bin and Son Ye-jin, will [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BTS has expressed confidence it can win a Grammy award sometime in the future, citing an old saying, “Little strokes fell great oaks,” despite disappointment of falling short of winning a nomination for the top four Grammys last week. “I grew up watching the Grammy Awards since [...]
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BTS held its first in-person concert in two years in Los Angeles on Saturday, drawing about 50,000 American fans. Saturday’s concert at SoFi Stadium in the U.S. city marked the septet’s first non-virtual concert since 2019, when the group performed in Seoul. Tens of thousands of fans [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Director Yeon Sang-ho of the supernatural horror series “Hellbound” said he was stunned to learn that the film debuted at No. 1 on the most-watched TV program list shortly after its global release on Netflix earlier this month. Yeon, who had directed the hit zombie thriller “Train to Busan” [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for the K-pop supergroup BTS’ 2019 hit “Boy With Luv” surpassed 1.4 billion YouTube views for the first time among videos from the group Wednesday. “Boy With Luv,” the main track of the septet’s sixth EP “Map of the Soul: Persona,” hit the milestone at around [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean fantasy horror “Hellbound” was the most-viewed TV show over a recent one-week period among those on Netflix, the global video streaming service said Wednesday. “Hellbound” topped Netflix’s official weekly chart for non-English TV programs with 43.5 million hours of viewing for the week from Nov. 15-21, outnumbering [...]