SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Le Sserafim has set a new record for the highest first-day sales by a K-pop girl group with its first full-length album, “Unforgiven,” according to sources in the music industry Wednesday. The sources said, citing figures from Hanteo Chart, a leading local tracker of album sales, “Unforgiven” sold over [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) —Korean Air has unveiled a special Boeing 777-300ER aircraft wrapped with photos of the members of BLACKPINK, a popular K-pop girl group, in honor of the Busan World Expo bid. The plane will promote the Expo by flying around the world, starting with a flight from Incheon to Paris. The [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — “Hype Boy,” a hit song from rookie girl group NewJeans, has become the group’s third song to garner 300 million streams on Spotify, the group’s agency said Wednesday. The song had recorded 300,100,390 streams on the world’s largest music streaming platform as of Monday, after its release on Aug. [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group BTOB is back with a spring breeze that makes people’s heart flutter and mellow love songs Tuesday. The sextet dropped “Wind and Wish,” its 12th EP and first release since March last year when it rolled out its third full-length album “Be Together.” The band wishes [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Suga, a member of K-pop giant BTS, has arrived at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 main albums chart with his first full-length solo album, “D-Day.” He tied with his bandmate Jimin, who hit the same position with “Face” last month, as the highest-charting K-pop soloist. Billboard said Monday [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group Le Sserafim returned to the music scene on Monday with “Unforgiven,” its first full-length album since debuting about a year ago. “We’re pleased and think it is meaningful that we came back with a studio album on the eve of the first anniversary of our debut,” [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — “FML,” boy group Seventeen’s 10th EP, has set a new record for first-week sales by a K-pop album, as it sold 4.55 million copies in the debut week, according to the band’s agency Monday. Pledis Entertainment said “FML” sold about 4,550,214 copies in the first seven days after its [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — In a display of community engagement, the Seoul Autonomous Police Committee held the highly anticipated “2023 Seoul Dog Patrol Team Launching Ceremony” on Sunday. With an impressive 700 teams in attendance, this innovative program combines the daily walks of dogs with crime prevention activities to spot and report crimes [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) —The use of the virtual world known as the metaverse has been proposed as a potential tool to alleviate the psychological strain on students subjected to school violence during police investigations, according to a recent publication titled “Police Investigation of School Violence Victims Using Metaverse,” featured in the journal Police [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung will hold a lunch meeting with young applicants in a project modeled after “Warren Buffett lunch” to connect better with younger generations, a South Korean business lobby said Sunday. The Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) planned the “God-saeng One meal” project as [...]