SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix revenge thriller series “The Glory” Part 2 landed at No. 2 on a global popularity chart for TV shows available on the streaming giant, just three days after its release, data showed. The highly anticipated second part debuted at No. 3 on streaming analytics website FlixPatrol’s global chart [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of art exhibitions designed to cater to visually impaired individuals are incorporating scents within their galleries. An exhibition by American artist Donna Huanca at Space K Seoul set up incense designed by the artist herself on Thursday. The incense combines Palo Santo, a tree native to [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK was inscribed on the Guinness World Records as the most-streamed girl group on Spotify in the world, the group’s agency said Saturday. The band’s songs had garnered 8.88 billion streams as of March 3, breaking the previous record of 8.4 billion streams set by the [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar J-Hope’s new digital single “on the street” has entered the British Official Singles chart. According to the chart updated Friday (British time), the song debuted at No. 37 on the Official Singles Chart Top 100, a notch down from Sza’s “Snooze.” The BTS dancer-rapper dropped the song [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup BTS has won four trophies at the 37th Japan Golden Disc Awards, BigHit Music, the group’s agency, said Friday. The septet clinched Best Asian Artist presented by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for the fifth year in a row. It also grabbed Song of the Year [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop rookie NewJeans’ songs have exceeded more than 1 billion combined streams on Spotify, its management agency said Thursday. The girl group recorded 107,788,873 streams on the global music streaming service as of Tuesday with six songs that it has released since its debut in August, ADOR said. According [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group TWICE has broken its own album preorder records with upcoming EP “Ready to Be,” the group’s management agency said Wednesday. “Ready to Be,” the band’s 12th EP set to drop Friday, surpassed 1.7 million copies in preorders as of Tuesday, heralding another million seller from the [...]
DAEGU, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Daegu Metropolitan Police Agency said Tuesday it will install new traffic lights that are designed to support vulnerable groups and prevent jaywalking by showing the remaining time in a red light’s cycle. This new traffic lights add to the system that displays the remaining time for the green [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s No. 1 wireless carrier, said Tuesday it will jointly develop and commercialize a self-driving patrol robot in collaboration with its cybersecurity service subsidiary SK shieldus Co. and a robot technology company Neubility by the end of this year. The self-driving robot will patrol a [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — “Promise,” the first song written by Jimin of K-pop superband BTS, topped iTunes charts in 51 regions around the world Tuesday, weeks ahead of the release of his first solo album, the band’s agency said. “Promise” was No. 1 on the iTunes Top Songs charts of Sweden, Norway, Greece, [...]