SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — RM, leader of the global K-pop sensation BTS, said Friday his solo debut album “Indigo” is just like himself and will be another starting point of his nine-year musical career. The rapper became the third BTS member to make an official debut as a solo artist by dropping the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Wednesday it will introduce a new safety management solution in which smartphones are used to remotely monitor the risk factors of manhole accidents. The solution is a combination of TANGO, SK Telecom’s artificial intelligence (AI)-based system; cybersecurity service provider SK [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup BTS has won six trophies at the 2022 MAMA Awards, including MAMA Platinum, the “top of the top” honors created this year for the K-pop industry’s biggest annual year-end music awards. MAMA Platinum is presented to artists who have won in all four main categories for a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ Cheiljedang Corp., an unit of South Korean food and entertainment giant CJ Group, said Tuesday that the official cheering sticks for the 2022 MAMA Awards, the K-pop industry’s biggest annual year-end music awards that open in Japan on Tuesday, were made from its Hetbahn cooked rice product containers. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — KARA, a K-pop girl group that was hugely popular in South Korea and Japan, will be back Tuesday with its first release in 7 1/2 years, the band’s agency said. The special album, “Move Again,” will hit music services at 6 p.m., RBW said. It marks KARA’s first whole-group [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Suga of K-pop supergroup BTS will host an online talk show set to launch next week, the band’s management agency said Tuesday. The rapper also teased the show, “Suchwita,” on the group’s official YouTube channel, Bangtan TV, the previous day. The video showed him talk over a cup of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Girl group Red Velvet, which has topped music charts at home and abroad in March with a song that sampled Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Air on the G String From Suite No. 3,” will drop another song that sampled a famous classical music piece Monday. “Birthday,” the title track of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean actress Son Ye-jin has given birth to a son, her management agency said Monday, eight months after marrying actor Hyun Bin. Son delivered the baby Sunday and both of them are in good health, MSteam Entertainment said. The celebrity couple, both aged 40, tied the knot in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group ITZY said Friday it has given a new spin to its consistent message on an independent and carefree life in its upcoming EP, “Cheshire.” “We worked hard on this album in the middle of a world tour,” member Chaeryeong said during a press event to promote [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Rising rookie girl group Le Sserafim will make a debut in Japan with its first Japanese-language single, “Fearless,” on Jan. 25, the band’s agency said Friday. The single will contain three tracks — Japanese versions of “Fearless,” its hit debut song released in May, and “Blue Flame” and a [...]