SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop girl group aespa unveiled its first EP “Savage” Tuesday, expressing hope to move on to a higher level with the album directed by Lee Soo-man, the chief producer and founder of major K-pop agency SM Entertainment. “We’re so thrilled and nervous to release our first physical album,” the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group ITZY landed at 11th on the U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart, its highest chart position ever, with “Crazy In Love,” Billboard said. The group’s first studio album, released on Sept. 24, ranked 11th on the Billboard 200 for this week, Billboard said on its Twitter account [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup BTS made another No. 1 debut on Billboard’s main singles chart with a collaboration single with British rock band Coldplay, Billboard said. “Coldplay and BTS rocket onto the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart at No. 1 with their collaborative new single ‘My Universe’,” Billboard said on its [...]
PARIS, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A pop-up store for Netflix’s original Korean series “Squid Game” opened up in France over the weekend, attracting fans in Europe. The pop-up store, set up at a cafe in Paris’ 2nd arrondissement, ran from Saturday to Sunday and allowed visitors to take photos with the staff dressed up [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — “My Universe,” the collaboration single by K-pop sensation BTS and British rock band Coldplay, has debuted at No. 3 on the British Official Singles Chart Top 100, on par with two previous highest rankings for the South Korean group. The song, which was released Sept. 24, placed third on [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The success of Netflix’s original Korean series “Squid Game” is placing local streaming platforms on alert. While the thriller’s global popularity is a welcomed feat, it contrasts with South Korean production companies depending increasingly on global streaming platforms, driving South Korean platforms away from the competition. Netflix, initially praised [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group TWICE released its first English single Friday, its agency said, signaling a full-scale inroad into the North American music market. The band’s first English single “The Feels” was dropped at 1 p.m. (midnight EST), according to JYP Entertainment. The nine-member group, which has a strong [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean TV series “Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha” is gaining popularity on global online streaming platform Netflix, adding to a recent bullish run worldwide of Korea-made content led by the survival drama “Squid Game.” The romantic comedy, aired on local cable channel tvN and simultaneously available for international streaming on Netflix, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean supergroup BTS and British rock band Coldplay dropped the official music video for “My Universe” on Thursday, six days after the collaboration single’s release. The premiere on Coldplay’s YouTube channel was watched by more than 950,000 people as an adjacent live chat was flooded with messages and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — “Squid Game,” Netflix’s new Korean survival drama, may become the global streaming entertainment giant’s most successful original content ever, its chief has said. “Squid Game will definitely be our biggest non-English language show in the world, for sure,” Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix, said Monday (U.S. time) during Code [...]