SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Once a cornerstone of youth culture in South Korea, PC cafés—known locally as “PC bangs”—are vanishing at an accelerating rate. According to the National Tax Service’s statistical portal, the number of PC cafés nationwide stood at 7,280 as of October 2024, a sharp 7.6% drop from the 7,858 recorded a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — KCON, an annual overseas K-pop concert series from entertainment giant CJ ENM, will return to Japan and the United States this year. This year’s KCON, a festival of Korean music and culture, will kick off in Japan’s Chiba prefecture from May 9 to 11 and continue in Los Angeles [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean digital comics, known as webtoons, are breaking new ground across international borders and media formats, with recent adaptations announced for both Hollywood and Japanese stage productions. Webtoon Entertainment, the parent company of Naver Webtoon, announced on January 22 that its horror series “Stagtown” is being developed into a feature film [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Health and medical advertisers dominated South Korean television advertising last year, according to a comprehensive industry report released January 22 by data platform company IGAWorks. The report shows that health and medical sector advertisements accounted for 24% of total TV advertising impressions in 2024, reaching 136 billion views. This placed [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK’s Rose has maintained her position in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 this week with “APT.,” her collaborative single with U.S. pop star Bruno Mars. According to the chart released Tuesday (U.S. time), the song holds steady at No. 5 for the third consecutive week. Released [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Jennie, a member of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, will release her first full-length album as a solo artist, her agency said Wednesday. The album, titled “Ruby,” is set to be released on March 7, according to OA Entertainment. “Ruby” will feature 15 songs spanning a variety of genres, including [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Award-winning director Park Chan-wook has recently completed filming his latest movie, “No Other Choice,” distributor CJ ENM said Tuesday. The film began filming last August and is aimed for release later this year. “I started writing the script for this movie almost 17 years ago. I feel deeply emotional [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Golfzon County has emerged as the largest corporate owner of golf courses in South Korea, according to a report released on January 20 by the YouTube channel Leisure White Paper TV, operated by the Korea Leisure Industry Research Institute. The company owns 15 golf courses and manages an additional [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Hanwha Eagles announced Monday their brand new stadium will be called “Daejeon Hanwha Life Ballpark.” The venue will replace Hanwha Life Eagles Park in Daejeon, some 140 kilometers south of Seoul. The previous park had been the oldest stadium in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), having been built [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Director Bong Joon-ho, known for his Oscar-winning film “Parasite,” described his Hollywood debut, “Mickey 17,” as a new type of sci-fi film that “feels deeply human” during a press conference in Seoul on Monday. The film, based on American writer Edward Ashton’s novel “Mickey7,” tells the story of a cloned [...]