SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Moonbin, a member of K-pop boy group Astro, has died in an apparent suicide, police said Thursday. He was 25. According to the police, Moonbin was found dead at his home in southern Seoul by his manager at around 8:10 p.m. Wednesday night. The manager had reportedly visited his [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop rookie Fifty Fifty’s first single “Cupid” stayed in the Billboard Hot 100 for the fourth consecutive week. According to the major U.S. music chart released Tuesday (U.S. time), Fifty Fifty’s “Cupid” rose to No. 60 this week, up from No. 85 a week ago. The quartet debuted on [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix’s political drama series “Queenmaker” ranked No. 1 on the streamer’s weekly viewership chart for non-English TV shows released Wednesday. Premiered on April 14, the new Korean-language series was the most-watched non-English TV show on Netflix’s top 10 list for the week of April 10-16 with 15.87 million viewing [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) – J-Hope of the K-pop supergroup BTS began military service Tuesday to become the second member of the group to do so. The 29-year-old entered an Army boot camp in Wonju, 87 kilometers southeast of Seoul, to begin five weeks’ basic training. In South Korea, all able-bodied men are required [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has set a Guinness world record for the most-viewed music channel on YouTube, the group’s agency said Tuesday. The band’s official YouTube channel surpassed 30 billion views Monday last week, outstripping the channel of Justin Bieber, YG Entertainment said. It took BLACKPINK’s channel about six [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group aespa will roll out its third EP, “My World,” on May 8, its management agency said Tuesday. The quartet’s last release was in July, when its second EP “Girls” came out. The upcoming EP will have six tracks and tell a story based on the band’s [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A new K-pop unit composed of three members of the K-pop supergroup NCT made a debut with its first EP on Monday, the group’s agency said. NCT Dojaejung, which consists of Doyoung, Jaehyun and Jungwoo, dropped the EP “Perfume,” SM Entertainment said. They first performed as a unit during [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean food industry is following the eco-friendly trend by introducing a variety of products made from recycled food byproducts. CJ Cheiljedang Corp. has introduced a snack made with cracked rice and pureed soybean. Since its release in April last year, it was only available at pop-up stores [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The latest album from Ive, one of the hottest K-pop girl groups, became a million seller in the first week of its release, the band’s agency said Monday. “I’ve Ive,” the sextet’s first full-length album released last Monday sold 1,102,107 copies in the first week, surpassing the 1 million [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group BLACKPINK has heated up the stage of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, North America’s largest music festival, as the first K-pop act to headline it. Appearing as the final performer at the event held in Indio, California, on Saturday (U.S. time), the quartet [...]