SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Jimin’s solo track “Who” has set a new record as the longest-running K-pop song on the Billboard Hot 100, surpassing “Dynamite” by his own group BTS. According to the latest chart released Tuesday (U.S. time), “Who” jumped 12 spots to reach No. 29, marking its 33rd consecutive week on [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league announced Wednesday it set a new attendance record in the preseason this month, the latest sign of the sport’s massive popularity. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) said the 42 preseason games, played from March 8 to Tuesday, drew 321,763 fans, for a record 7,661 [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will try to inch closer to a spot in the 2026 FIFA World Cup this week without their best defender. South Korea will face Oman at 8 p.m. Thursday at Goyang Stadium in Goyang, some 20 kilometers northwest of Seoul, in the third round of the Asian [...]
JEONGSEON, South Korea, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Kangwon Land’s Mind Fulfillment Center (KLACC: KangwonLand Attentive Mind Care Center) has become the first operator in South Korea’s gambling industry to publish research on the effectiveness of its gambling addiction treatment program in a peer-reviewed academic journal. According to Kangwon Land, findings from its intensive meditation [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — MBC said Monday it will edit out actor Kim Soo-hyun’s scenes from its variety show “Good Day” as much as possible amid an ongoing controversy over his underage dating allegations. The “Queen of Tears” star has been under intense scrutiny since March 10, when a YouTube channel first raised [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Yasiel Puig, former National League All-Star back for a second tour of duty with the Kiwoom Heroes in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), has not played for a week in the ongoing preseason due to some muscle spasms. With the regular season just five days, though, the Heroes’ manager, [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Jennie of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK landed at No. 7 on the U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart with her first full-length solo album, “Ruby.” Billboard revealed the news in a chart preview released Sunday (U.S. time), introducing Jennie as the band’s third member to enter the top 10 of [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope of K-pop superband BTS will release a new digital single titled “Mona Lisa” this week, his agency said Monday. “Mona Lisa” will be available on music services at 1 p.m. Friday, according to BigHit Music. It introduced “Mona Lisa” as a hip-hop R&B song that expresses a tribute [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — FC Seoul defender Kim Ju-sung was picked Monday to replace injured Bayern Munich center back Kim Min-jae for South Korea’s two upcoming FIFA World Cup qualifying matches. The Korea Football Association (KFA) made the announcement two days after cutting Kim Min-jae from the 28-man squad due to left Achilles [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Throughout his professional career that has spanned over a decade, Jake Cave has played for coaches who had once been great players. Now in his first season with the Doosan Bears in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), the American outfielder will be playing for a manager who still owns the Korean [...]