SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The video featuring K-pop sensations BTS performing “Permission to Dance,” one of their hit singles, at the United Nations headquarters has exceeded 12 million views on YouTube, becoming the most viewed clip on the U.N. channel. The video that was uploaded at the U.N.’s official YouTube channel Monday has [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) will return almost to normal after a pandemic-disrupted year, holding an offline opening ceremony with spectators and on-site events with some big-name filmmakers from home and abroad, organizers said Wednesday. The biggest film festival in Asia will be held from Oct. 6-15 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — If art is a form of expression, then the paintings of Park Seo-bo, known as the father of Korean contemporary art, may not be art at all. The octogenarian opened a new solo exhibition titled “PARK SEO-BO” at Seoul’s Kukje Gallery on Wednesday, featuring 16 of his “dansaekhwa,” the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop fans launched a campaign to help protect a beach in eastern Korea that has become popular after the global superstars BTS shot their photos for the “Butter” album. Korea Beyond Coal, a civic group dedicated to fighting against climate change, said they started the “Save Butter Beach Campaign,” [...]
GONGJU, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Gongju National Museum on Tuesday opened the first-ever exhibition of all 5,232 artifacts that were excavated 50 years ago from the tomb of King Muryeong, who ruled the Baekje Kingdom in the sixth century. The exhibition, which marks the 50th anniversary of the tomb’s discovery, offers a rare opportunity [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Rev. Cho Yong-gi, the founder of Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, died Tuesday. He was 85. The pastor emeritus of the world’s largest congregation passed away at 7:13 a.m. at a Seoul hospital. He had been under medical treatment suffering a cerebral hemorrhage since last year. In 1936 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean film distributor has canceled its plan to release a Chinese movie depicting the 1950-53 Korean War from the perspectives of the country amid backlash from war veterans and political conservatives. The Korea Media Rating Board said the company, Wisdom Film, withdrew its application for an age [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Lee Jung-min, a 29-year old office worker in Seoul, recently saw the new Netflix military series “D.P.,” already having been a big fan of its original web comic, “D.P.: Dog Days.” He couldn’t stop watching the six-episode series about soldiers in the D.P. unit, standing for deserter pursuit, whose [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Han Kang, the celebrated author of “The Vegetarian” and winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, is out with her first full-length novel in five years and has two words to describe it: “utmost love.” In an online press conference on Tuesday, Han said the book “I Do [...]
BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Chinese social media platform Weibo has banned 21 fan club accounts of South Korean celebrities, including one for the chart-topping K-pop sensation BTS, as Beijing attempts to tighten its grip on entertainment and culture industries. Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, has imposed 30-day suspensions on 21 accounts belonging [...]