SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Red Velvet’s Seulgi said Tuesday she feels the time is right for her to make a debut as a soloist after seven years with one of the biggest K-pop girl groups. Seulgi debuted as a member of the five-piece group in 2014 along with Irene, Wendy, Joy and Yeri, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Military comedy “6/45″ became the most-viewed Korean film of all time in Vietnam in just 10 days of its release, the movie’s Korean distributor said Tuesday. Since its release on Sept. 23, “6/46″ topped the Vietnamese box office in the first week and had attracted 1.32 million of movie [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Fashion products made by a South Korean upcycling brand made appearances at a joint fashion show hosted by Tranoi, the official trade fair of Paris Fashion Week, at the Brongniart Palace in Paris last Saturday. ul:kin introduced a bag made with safety nets and other construction materials used in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Model houses using metaverse technology are emerging as a new trend in the South Korean construction industry, as part of efforts to reduce the cost needed to build and operate real model houses as well as to reach a wider customer base without physical limits. Lotte Engineering & Construction Co., [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — “Squid Game” star Jung Ho-yeon has been chosen as one of the 100 rising leaders from across industries and around the world by U.S. magazine Time for this year. Jung was named in the phenoms category of the 2022 Time 100 Next list released Wednesday (U.S. time), which also [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Music producer and rapper Zico has dominated local music charts with his new single, ending seemingly never-ending chart domination by the hottest girl groups, such as Ive, BLACKPINK and NewJeans, in recent months. “New Thing (Feat. Homies)” has retained the No. 1 spot on the daily chart of the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Jimin of K-pop supergroup BTS will release a book of photography next month, his management agency said Wednesday. “ID: Chaos” will be published Oct. 13 as part of the group’s “Special 8 Photo-Folio” project launched early this month to show off their individual characters and new sides. He will [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix’s Korean-language crime thriller “Narco-Saints” has placed second on the streamer’s latest weekly viewership chart for non-English TV shows. The six-part series, released on Sept. 9, marked 27.4 million hours of viewing for the week of Sept. 19-25 to finish No. 2 on the official top 10 list for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group Mamamoo will return as a full group with its 12th EP titled “MIC On” next month, its management agency said Tuesday. The new EP will hit various music services at 6 p.m. on Oct. 11, RBW Entertainment said. It will be the first release from the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop boy group EXO’s Xiumin said Monday he is very much eager to resume group activities, as he was to drop his first album as a solo artist 10 years after his debut as an EXO member. EXO was one of the most popular boy groups back in the [...]