SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — “Hitman 2,” starring Kwon Sang-woo, claimed the top spot at the box office during the six-day Lunar New Year holiday. According to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), the action-comedy topped the holiday box office by selling 1.268 million tickets from Saturday to Thursday, bringing its cumulative total to 1.51 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The highly anticipated third season of Netflix’s global hit series “Squid Game” has officially been given a release date. The streaming giant announced Thursday (U.S. time) that the series will return for its third and final season on June 27, just six months after the release of Season 2. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Tottenham Hotspur’s South Korean teenager Yang Min-hyeok has been loaned to a second-division club without playing a match for the Premier League side. Queens Park Rangers (QPR) announced Wednesday (Britain local time) that they acquired the 18-year-old winger on a loan deal for the rest of the 2024-2025 campaign. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group aespa has kicked off its North American and European tour with its first concert in the United States, the group’s agency said Thursday. The quartet began “SYNK: Parallel Line” at accesso ShoWare Center in Seattle on Tuesday (local time), with tickets selling out, according to SM [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — In times of hardship, the adage holds true: laughter offers solace. As economic uncertainty persists in 2025, audiences are increasingly drawn to lighthearted content that provides an escape from the pressures of daily life. Reflecting this trend, the entertainment industry is delivering a surge of comedy-infused productions, blending humor with [...]
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 [...]