SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Rose, a member of the K-pop group BLACKPINK, picked up two trophies, including Song of the Year, at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday (U.S. time). She won the honor for “APT.,” her collaboration single with global pop icon Bruno Mars, and accepted Best Group on behalf [...]
JEJU, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A Netflix animated feature has unexpectedly cast a centuries-old Korean craft into the global limelight. In K-Pop Demon Hunters, the boy band “Saja Boys,” rivals of the girl group protagonists, don traditional hats known as gat — and audiences worldwide have taken notice. One character’s performance, twirling a gat’s [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The interim head coach for the national short track speed skating team was forced to leave the Olympic training venue Friday, some two weeks after his much-criticized hiring. The Korea Skating Union (KSU) said it informed the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) that Kim Sun-tae had left the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league broke its single-season attendance record Friday, with more than three weeks still left on the campaign. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced the total attendance for the season reached 10,901,173 after three games played Friday drew 52,119 fans. The previous record of 10,887,705 was [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A statue in Sejong that was dismantled more than a decade ago after residents complained it resembled the Grim Reaper may be resurrected, thanks in part to the global success of Netflix’s animated film “K-Pop Demon Hunters.” The Government Complex Management Office confirmed Wednesday that officials are reviewing whether to reinstall [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Players set to participate in Asian club football tournaments starting this month said Thursday they will try to make South Korea and the domestic league proud. Ulsan HD FC, Gangwon FC and FC Seoul of the K League 1 will play in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean media scholars has called for the abandonment of the medical classification of gaming disorder, arguing that framing play as a disease reflects a long history of cultural repression cloaked in health concerns. In a report commissioned by the Korea Creative Content Agency and the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Chan-wook’s black comedy “No Other Choice” has been selected by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) as the country’s official submission for next year’s Academy Awards. KOFIC’s selection committee cited the film’s “cinematic completeness, relevant themes surrounding job termination, exceptional ensemble performances and positive evaluations from North American distributors” [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Hanwha Eagles ace Cody Ponce set a new single-season strikeout record in South Korean baseball Wednesday, further burnishing his MVP case in his first year here. Ponce notched his 226th strikeout of the season during a game against the NC Dinos at Daejeon Hanwha Life Ballpark in Daejeon, 140 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — “My Universe,” a collaboration single between boy group BTS and global pop icon Coldplay, has surpassed 1.5 billion streams on Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming platform, BTS’ agency said Tuesday. It became the second BTS’ group song with more than 1.5 billion streams following “Dynamite.” The two bands [...]