SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — India opened up its second Korean language master’s program with the Korean wave sweeping the globe. Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi recently held a faculty meeting to introduce the master’s program in the Korean language. The university has selected 25 new students for the Korean language master’s [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstars BTS will hold a massive live concert in Busan on Oct. 15 to support the southern port city’s bid to host the World Expo in 2030, the group said Wednesday. The septet said on K-pop fan community platform Weverse that the one-day concert titled “BTS <Yet to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — “Snowdrop,” a romance drama TV series starring Jung Hae-in and Jisoo of BLACKPINK, has been the most talked about K-drama in the world across the social media platform Twitter so far in 2022, the company said Wednesday. According to Twitter, “Snowdrop,” which aired on JTBC from December of last [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The hit legal drama “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” has topped Netflix’s latest weekly viewership chart of non-English TV shows for the fourth consecutive week even after it finished airing in South Korea, the global video streaming service said Wednesday. The TV sensation, which aired every Wednesday and Thursday on the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — New technology will allow people to simply tap a button on their phones to report an assault or other crimes. The National Police Agency said Monday it is currently planning a “knock knock campaign,” in which people facing emergency situations can easily contact the police. The new system will [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Ive, one of the hottest rookie girl groups, droped its third single “After Like” Monday, drawing attention to whether the new track will be the group’s third straight hit. According to Starship Entertainment, the group’s agency, the single is composed of two songs — the title track and “My [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s 2017 hit song “As If It’s Your Last” has surpassed 1.2 billion views on YouTube. YG Entertainment said Monday the video passed the threshold at about 7 p.m. the previous day, five years and a month after it was uploaded on [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Rallies around the home of former President Moon Jae-in will be banned starting Monday as the Presidential Security Service expanded the guard zone for the former president amid persistent noisy and menacing protests. The decision to ban rallies within 300 meters from Moon’s home in Yangsan, about 310 kilometers [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroups BTS and BLACKPINK have been nominated for group of the year in the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, the U.S. music channel has announced. The two K-pop bands will compete for Best Group Of The Year with City Girls, Foo Fighters, Imagine Dragons, Maneskin, Red Hot Chili [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s new single “Pink Venom” debuted atop iTunes charts in 69 countries around the world, the group’s agency said Saturday. YG Entertainment said the song, released the previous day, ranked No. 1 on iTunes Top Songs charts in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Oceania [...]