SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Daesung of K-pop boy group BIGBANG recently terminated his contract with YG Entertainment, the agency said Tuesday, with G-Dragon expected to be the band’s only member to remain with the company. “We’re discussing signing a contract with G-Dragon as a soloist, while Daesung is seeking a new start after [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – “Indigo,” the first solo album of BTS leader RM, has surged to No. 3 on Billboard’s main albums chart this week, making him the highest-charted K-pop soloist. Billboard said in an article on the preview of this week’s charts Monday (U.S. time) that RM became the first BTS member [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The central administrative city of Sejong will launch a pilot program in January in which households can drop waste medicines into mailboxes and postal workers will safely bring them to incineration sites, officials said Monday. To launch the waste medicine collection service, the city government signed a memorandum of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the city-run operator of the subway system in Seoul, said Monday it has introduced Safe Roads to guide passengers to elevators inside subway stations. Seoul Metro joined hands with the Ministry of Interior and Safety and the Korea Elevator Safety Agency to lay out Safe Roads in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Taeyang of boy group BIGBANG has signed a management contract with The Black Label headed by K-pop producer Teddy, his former agency said Monday. “BIGBANG’s Taeyang came to work as an artist of The Black Label affiliated with YG Entertainment,” YG said in a press release. Founded by Teddy, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band NCT 127 will release “Ay-Yo,” a repackaging of its fourth full-length album, next month, the group’s management agency said Monday. The album will come out Jan. 30 and has 15 tracks, including three new songs, SM Entertainment said. The band’s latest album, “2 Baddies,” was released [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean actor Song Joong-ki has been in a romantic relationship with a woman, his entertainment agency said Monday, following a newspaper report that he’s been dating a British woman. “Song is dating a woman who he has good feelings toward,” High Zium Studio said in a statement Monday, [...]
GIMHAE, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A Christmas tree made of books greeted visitors at Jangyu Library in the southeastern city of Gimhae, South Gyeongsang Province on Friday. Library staff stacked up discarded books to create a Christmas tree. Around 10,000 of the 188,000 books owned by the library were to be scrapped this year. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Energy Co., South Korea’s leading oil refinery and gas station operator, is teaming up with internet portal giant Naver Corp. to convert gas stations into urban logistics bases armed with state-of-the-art technology. The two companies recently signed a business agreement to promote cooperation in developing and establishing logistics [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy group Stray Kids will put out their first Japanese-language studio album on Feb. 22 to take a step further into the market, the band’s agency said Friday. JYP Entertainment made the announcement in a press release while also unveiling a teaser video of the upcoming album [...]