SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Jennie of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has revealed plans to release a solo, “life-reflecting” album next year. According to her agency, OA Entertainment, she shared the announcement in a “Happy Holidays” video posted on the company’s website the previous day. “I now have satisfactory results from 11 months of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The highly anticipated second season of Netflix’s Korean original series “Squid Game” premieres Thursday, continuing the gripping narrative that captivated audiences worldwide. The new chapter follows protagonist Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), who abandons his plans to leave for the United States after winning the lethal competition. Instead, he returns to [...]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. magazine TIME has selected “Lovely Runner” as this year’s best South Korean drama, its website showed Tuesday. The magazine carried an article on this year’s 10 best K-dramas with the fantasy romance drama topping the list, as it noted K-dramas have broken into the American mainstream — a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Jaemin, a member of popular boy group NCT, has donated 100 million won (US$68,998) to UNICEF’s program for supporting children around the world, UNICEF Korea said Tuesday. The donation was made in the name of the K-pop group’s fandom, NCTzen Dream, it added. The funds were raised through the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean historical drama “Harbin” has garnered over 550,000 advance ticket reservations, signaling strong potential for box-office success. Approximately 554,000 tickets have been booked for the film as of 8:50 a.m. Tuesday, the release day, accounting for 56.2 percent of all advance ticket sales for movies currently showing in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Song Min-ho of K-pop group WINNER has been discharged from the military, industry sources said Tuesday, amid allegations that he did not fulfill his duties properly. The sources said Song completed his mandatory service as a social service agent at a facility in Seoul’s Mapo district the previous day. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The nine-time South Korean football champions Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors announced Tuesday former Premier League tactician Gus Poyet will be their new head coach. Poyet, the 57-year-old from Uruguay, most recently coached the Greece men’s national team from 2022 to 2024. He was also interviewed for the South Korean men’s national [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Stray Kids has claimed its sixth No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart with its new album, “Hop.” The album debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart for this week with 187,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States, Billboard said in a chart [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Suwon FC head coach Kim Eun-jung has decided to stay put with the K League 1 club, his agency announced Monday, following weeks of rumors that the two sides would go separate ways. DJ Management said Kim will stay at the helm of Suwon FC “after long discussions with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Director Kwak Kyung-taek’s latest film, “Firefighters,” remained the top choice at the local box office. According to the Korean Film Council’s computerized box-office tally Monday, the disaster film topped the weekend box office for the second consecutive week, attracting an audience of 510,000 from Friday to Sunday. The movie, [...]