SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Cortis, the new boy group from BigHit Music behind BTS and Tomorrow X Together (TXT), debuted Monday with a digital single and expressed hopes of establishing a unique identity in the K-pop scene. It marks the agency’s first new boy group in six years, following TXT’s debut in 2019. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – V of South Korean boy band BTS will throw out the first pitch at the Los Angeles Dodgers’ home game next Monday, the Major League Baseball team and his agency announced. “ARMY, you ready? V will be at Dodger Stadium on Aug. 25 to throw out the ceremonial first [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean singer Insooni has been selected as the 2025 Woman of Influence Award honoree for her humanitarian activities supporting young people of mixed race and multicultural backgrounds, Pearl S. Buck International said Friday. The 68-year-old has become the first Korean to receive the honor from the U.S.-based nongovernmental organization [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading game studios lavished record pay packages on star developers in the first half of 2025, with several earning more than their own chief executives and even controlling shareholders. According to semiannual filings released August 14, Krafton’s PUBG: Battlegrounds executive producer Jang Tae-seok topped the list, taking [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Jung-hoo of the San Francisco Giants maintained his hold on second place on the major league triples leaderboard. The South Korean player recorded his 10th triple of the season in a 1-11 loss to the San Diego Padres at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday (local [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix has emerged as the most satisfying streaming service for South Korean consumers, with content diversity ranking as the top factor influencing platform choice, according to a government survey released August 14. The Korea Consumer Agency polled 1,500 users — 300 each from Netflix, Disney+, Wavve, Coupang Play and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Hanwha Eagles broke their own South Korean baseball league record with their 48th sellout of the season Wednesday. The Eagles hosted the Lotte Giants before a capacity crowd of 17,000 at Daejeon Hanwha Life Ballpark in Daejeon, 140 kilometers south of Seoul. In 2024, the Eagles had established [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Police said Tuesday they have launched an investigation into K-pop star G-Dragon and Yang Hyun-suk, the founder and chief producer of major agency YG Entertainment, over alleged violation of copyright law. Seoul’s Mapo Police Station began the probe after receiving a complaint in November from a composer who claimed [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — With each passing outing in one tough situation after another, NC Dinos reliever Chun Sa-min is learning more and more about himself. In his fifth Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season at age 26, the 194-centimeter right-hander is finally realizing the value of trusting his pitches. And his superb outing [...]
YEONGDONG, South Korea, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — An expo dedicated to “gugak,” Korean traditional music, is set to open next month, spotlighting the roots of Korean music that have paved the way for the global phenomenon of K-pop. The 2025 Yeongdong World Traditional Music & Arts Expo, the first of its kind, is scheduled [...]