SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL), South Korea’s state-owned railway operator, said Tuesday it will begin offering jobs to homeless people living near subway stations in Seoul, Busan, and eight other locations. KORAIL, in collaboration with local governments and support centers for the homeless, will provide jobs to 100 homeless individuals [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The dance performance video for “How You Like That,” a 2020 hit single by K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, has surpassed 1.4 billion views on YouTube, its entertainment agency said Wednesday. The choreography video hit the milestone Tuesday, even surpassing 1.2 million views by the song’s official music video on [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean rapper Psy said Tuesday he is proud of turning his drenched concert series into not a one-time show but “culture” among concertgoers in the summertime and is excited to dazzle his fans once again this summer. Psy, who rose to international stardom with his viral hit song [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group aespa has set a new record by selling about 1.37 million copies of its third EP, “My World,” on the first day of its release, the group’s agency said Tuesday. SM Entertainment cited data from Hanteo Chart, a leading local tracker of albums sales. “My World” [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — NewJeans has broken a Guinness World Record as a K-pop act by securing 1 billion streams the fastest with its songs on Spotify, the group’s agency said Tuesday. The quartet hit the milestone Monday, only 219 days after it made its debut in July 2022, ADOR said, quoting data [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Seventeen has ranked No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with its 10th EP, “FML,” its highest ranking ever on the chart. Billboard said Monday (U.S. time) in a preview of this week’s chart that the South Korean album came after U.S. country singer Morgan [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group aespa has expanded its fictional universe from the cyberpunk metaverse to the “real world” for the band’s third EP “My World.” The group — consisting of Ningning, Winter, Giselle and Karina — dropped the album marking the band’s first release in 10 months at 6 p.m. [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Fifty Fifty has made it into the top 10 of the British Official Singles Chart for the first time as a K-pop girl group with its new viral hit song “Cupid.” According to the latest chart released Friday (British time), “Cupid” rose nine places from last week to rank [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — An unprecedentedly uphill competition to rise to the top of domestic music charts is expected to take place this month with the return of big girl groups, such as Le Sserafim, aespa and (G)I-dle, with new albums. The first of the three groups to step into the ring is [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group EXO’s Kai will enlist in the military next week to fulfill his mandatory military service, his agency said Thursday. The 29-year-old will begin with a five-week basic training program at an Army boot camp from next Thursday, SM Entertainment said on its K-pop fan community platform, [...]