SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The suspended chairman of the ruling People Power Party (PPP), Lee Jun-seok, again cried foul Saturday over a party leadership switch, which he claims is aimed at removing him from his position. The PPP’s move to switch to an emergency leadership system is “unfair” and “nonsense,” Lee told reporters [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong was given a presidential pardon on Friday, in a move widely expected to help him consolidate his leadership and speed up business decision-making in the country’s biggest conglomerate. The decision comes as the tech giant has been faced with intensifying global competition from [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk-yeol granted his first special pardons to Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin and 1,691 others on the occasion of next week’s Liberation Day anniversary, the government said Friday. The government announced the pardons to be effective from Liberation Day on Monday. Former President [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superband BTS will begin a relay photo album project with the youngest member Jungkook next month, the group’s agency said Friday. Earlier in the day, Jungkook unveiled a surprise teaser image titled, “Me, Myself, and Jungkook” for the upcoming “Photo Folio” project, on social media. In the blurry [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The K-pop industry is bracing for a heated chart competition as some of the top girl groups are ready to throw their hats in the ring with new albums this month. Girls’ Generation, the longest-running K-pop girl group, was the first to enter the ring. The octet made a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The choreography video for “How You Like That,” a 2020 hit single by K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, has surpassed 1.2 billion views on YouTube. The group’s agency YG Entertainment said Friday the video hit the milestone earlier in the day, becoming the quartet’s fourth video with more than 1.2 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Rookie girl group aespa’s latest EP “Girls” sold more than 1.64 million copies last month, setting a record as the most-sold album by any K-pop girl group, the band’s agency said Thursday. Released on July 8, “Girls” topped the monthly album sales chart of South Korea’s benchmark Circle Chart [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK will release its second studio album titled “Born Pink” on Sept. 16, the band’s management agency said Wednesday. YG Entertainment teased the album by posting a promotional poster on its official blog. The poster shows a logo for the upcoming project, an artwork featuring fangs [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK will unveil “Pink Venom,” a track from its upcoming second studio album, on Aug. 19, its agency said Monday. The song and its music video will hit various music streaming services and YouTube at 1 p.m. on Aug. 19, YG Entertainment said. “The combination of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Ateez debuted at third on the U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart with “The World Ep. 1: Movement.” Billboard said Sunday (U.S. time) in a preview of this week’s charts that Ateez notched its first top 10 on the Billboard 200 as its latest EP arrived at [...]