SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK, a top K-pop girl group, will make a long-awaited comeback in August, its management agency said Wednesday. “BLACKPINK is now at the final stage of recording its new album. They will embark on the filming of a music video within this month and release new songs in August,” [...]
HELSINKI, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — June Huh, a Korean American mathematician and professor at Princeton University, has been named a recipient of this year’s Fields Medal, a prestigious international prize awarded to mathematicians under 40 for achievements in the field of mathematics. The 39-year-old professor, who also serves as a distinguished professor of mathematics [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean football icon Son Heung-min has disclosed facing racism as a teenager in Germany, an experience that made the national team’s upset victory over Germany at the 2018 FIFA World Cup that much sweeter for the star. Son made the revelation during a meet-and-greet session with fans in [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Tottenham Hotspur star Son Heung-min, who has been residing in South Korea since late May, has begun training for the upcoming season. Online communities have posted photos of the captain of South Korea’s national football team jogging along the bike path in the Han River Park despite the scorching [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — As elated as he was to win the Premier League Golden Boot this past season, Tottenham Hotspur’s Son Heung-min says sharing the joy with his supportive teammates made the experience even more special. In a corporate event held in Seoul on Monday, the South Korean superstar shared some of [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group TWICE’s Nayeon ranked seventh on the Billboard’s main albums chart with her solo debut EP, “Im Nayeon,” the U.S. chart operator has said in an article. She became the Billboard 200′s highest-charting K-pop solo artist by earning 57,000 equivalent album units in the United States in [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK’s megahit single “Ddu-du Ddu-du” has set a YouTube record for most views for a video by a K-pop group, the quartet’s agency said Sunday. YG Entertainment said the music video surpassed 1.9 billion views just past 4 a.m. Sunday. The clip was first released on July 15, 2018. [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope, a rapper and dancer of K-pop supergroup BTS, topped the iTunes music charts in 84 countries with his first official solo single “More” on Saturday. Released on Friday, J-Hope’s new EP ranked No. 1 on iTunes Top Songs charts in the United States, Canada, Spain, France and other [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean girl group aespa will attend the U.N. High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development next week, its agency said Friday. The band will attend the opening session of the forum, to be held at the U.N. headquarters in New York at 9 a.m. on Tuesday (U.S. time), SM [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope, a rapper and dancer of K-pop supergroup BTS, released his highly anticipated first official solo single “More” on Friday. The song came out in a digital format through the Weverse Album app at 1 p.m., to be the first formal solo track from the band. It followed the [...]