SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Global K-pop stars NewJeans will perform during the halftime of a preseason football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Bayern Munich in Seoul next month, the match organizer said Thursday. Coupang Play, the South Korean streaming platform, announced the five-piece girl group as the halftime performer for the second match [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Jimin, a member of K-pop superstar BTS, will give his first performance of “Who,” the main track from his second solo album, on a popular U.S. TV show next week, the group’s agency said Thursday. Jimin will appear on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in a prerecorded [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean football league on Thursday announced changes to its coaching staff for an upcoming exhibition match against Tottenham Hotspur. The Korea Professional Football League (K League) said Park Tae-ha, head coach of Pohang Steelers in the top-flight K League 1, will be in charge of Team K [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — With two reigning world champions leading the way, the South Korean judo team for the Paris Olympics traveled to the French capital Thursday. South Korea was shut out of gold medals in judo at each of the past two Summer Olympics, but coaches and athletes this year believe the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s MAMA Awards, the K-pop industry’s biggest annual year-end music awards, will be held in the United States and Japan, organizers said Thursday. The awards ceremony will take place at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre on Nov. 21 (U.S. time) and at the Kyocera Dome Osaka on Nov. 22 [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – In a bustling airport lounge, a masked celebrity enters, flanked by bodyguards. Suddenly, one guard turns and shines a bright flashlight at nearby passengers, ostensibly to prevent them from taking photos. This scene, captured on video and widely shared online, has ignited a fierce debate in South Korea about the [...]
WASHINGTON, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The world’s first baseball team of young North Korean defectors will arrive in the United States this week, a non-profit organization said Tuesday, in a program that would enable them to experience first-hand the land of freedom and opportunities. “The Challengers” will visit New York and Washington between Thursday [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Before the start of the 2024 South Korean baseball season, Kiwoom Heroes infielder Song Sung-mun reflected on the first nine years of his career and didn’t like where he was standing. At 27, he fell on the older side of the ledger on the youthful Kiwoom Heroes, but it [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Set against the vibrant backdrop of South Korea, “Pilot” is a pleasant but uninspired comedy that fails to deliver the side-splitting laughs it seems to promise. A remake of the Swedish film “Cockpit,” the Korean flick follows the career crash-landing of Han Jung-woo (played by Cho Jung-seok), a star [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK), South Korea’s premier professional esports league, is broadening its reach by boosting fan engagement in Vietnam, where viewership has recently surged. According to the LCK secretariat on July 16, the Vietnamese broadcast of the 2024 LCK Spring Finals in April reached a peak [...]