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 [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Pianist Lim Yunchan said Thursday nothing has changed since his recent win in a prestigious international piano competition in the United States and he will practice more to improve his skills. “Nothing has changed,” Lim said during a press conference at his school in southern Seoul to mark his [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Japan’s Oricon on Thursday named South Korean girl group ITZY the top-selling rookie of the first half of the year based on sales in the country, the band’s agency said. Oricon announced the K-pop quintet as the best-selling rookie artist in the market for the Dec. 17-June 20 period, JYP Entertainment [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group aespa will headline this year’s “Good Morning America” Summer Concert Series, an annual summer concert hosted by the famous U.S. morning talk show, the group’s agency said Tuesday. Aespa will perform its hit songs “Next Level” and “Savage,” as well as its first English single, [...]