SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has racked up four nominations for the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards, one of the American music industry’s awards shows, and boy group BTS has landed two. According to the full list of nominees for this year’s event announced on the homepage of the annual music [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK will headline the Coachella music festival, a major U.S. music and art festival scheduled for April, its organizer said. In an official announcement released Tuesday (U.S. time), Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival unveiled its star-studded lineup for the annual event to be held at [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group on Tuesday denied a rumor that G-Dragon of K-pop band BIGBANG was romantically involved with the granddaughter of the group’s chairperson. Speculation surrounding G-Dragon, whose real name is Kwon Ji-yong, and the granddaughter of Chairperson Lee Myung-hee first emerged after a Chinese entertainment [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Tomorrow X Together sold more than 1.56 million copies of its upcoming EP in preorders, the band’s agency said Tuesday, with the album expected to become another hit from the band. “The Name Chapter: temptation,” the band’s fifth EP, set to come out Jan. 27 at [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup BTS’ eldest member Jin, who is serving in the military, surprised his fans Monday by dropping a special message filmed before his enlistment. “I turned on the video camera because I wanted to leave a message for you,” he said in the video uploaded on the band’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The latest release from South Korean boy group Ateez has debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 main albums chart. Billboard said Sunday (U.S. time) in a preview of its music charts for this week that the K-pop group had charted for the second time in the top [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Rookie girl group NewJeans has clinched a second straight success in album sales with its first single “OMG,” following its debut EP “New Jeans” last year. “OMG” has sold 701,241 copies in the first week of its release, the group’s agency ADOR said Monday, citing data from Hanteo Chart, [...]
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s chief executive has said macroeconomic challenges will persist throughout this year, amid sluggish demand, rising materials and logistics costs. “Samsung was dealt a heavy blow with deteriorating external factors, like weaker demand and rising costs,” Han Jong-hee, vice chair and co-CEO at Samsung, said at a [...]
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s chief executive officer has said the company was still pursuing a merger deal, even though its efforts have hit a snag. The tech company’s deal-making activities were only “delayed due to various external factors,” Han Jong-hee, vice chair and co-CEO at Samsung, said at a press [...]
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc.’s chief executive has said the company’s focus on the electric vehicle (EV) parts business for the past decade has started to bear fruit. “Our EV business has made a turnaround 10 years after we entered the market,” CEO Cho Joo-wan said during a press briefing [...]