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SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Home appliance and furniture makers are transitioning their focus to offline stores after enjoying an unexpected surge in sales over the past two years during the pandemic era, introducing new marketing strategies that focus on “experiential stores.” The country’s top massage chair maker Bodyfriend began to place artworks in [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy group Stray Kids will roll out a new album in Japan next month, the group’s agency said Monday. JYP Entertainment said on social media that the band’s second Japanese EP “Circus” will hit music stores on June 22. The octet’s last Japanese EP was “All In” [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy group BTS has won three prizes at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs), one of the three biggest pop music honors in the United States, Billboard said. The septet won top duo or group, top song sales artist and top selling song (for its 2021 smash [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Lotte Group decided Friday to buy U.S. drug firm Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS)’s pharmaceutical factory in Syracuse, New York, for $160 million. Lotte’s board of directors approved the deal, which also includes BMS’s contract manufacturing agreements to produce medicine worth $220 million over the next three years. [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of music concert tickets have been rising rapidly in the wake of the lifting of almost all COVID-19 restrictions. According to Interpark, a local online reservation service, ticket sales of concerts planned for the second quarter of this year jumped 267 percent from a year ago. The upward [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — At this year’s Cannes Film Festival set to kick off next week, two Korean films — “Decision to Leave” by renowned director Park Chan-wook and “Broker” by award-winning Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda — will compete for the top honor of Palme d’Or. It is the first time in five [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean market for shampoo that helps to conceal gray hair is expanding. LG Household & Health Care Ltd., a household goods and cosmetics maker, said Thursday it had released a shampoo and treatment that covers gray hair just by washing normally. The company developed the products based [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Household & Health Care (H&H) Ltd., a major South Korean producer of cosmetic and health care products, said Friday it has opened a new research and development (R&D) center in Hokkaido, Japan, focusing on microbiome beauty products. LG H&H said Hokkaido provides the optimal environment for conducting research [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Park In-soo, who is better known by his stage name “Kill,” has already established himself as a star B-boy in the breaking community with his exceptional power moves, but these days, he feels more people are recognizing him. “I can feel that people are paying more attention to breaking [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group aespa has been chosen as one of the Next Generation Leaders by the U.S. news magazine TIME. Since 2014, the magazine has annually announced the list featuring trendsetters and trailblazers who are guiding the way to a brighter future. “aespa is an experiment, but it [...]