SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Director Bong Joon-ho and the cast of “Parasite” are entering the final stretch in the heated race for the upcoming Oscars. The genre-bending family satire was nominated in six categories — best picture, best director, best screenplay, best editing, best production design and best international feature film — for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super band BTS will dazzle the world music scene with a series of high-profile performances in the United Sates next week ahead of its official release of a new album. American broadcaster iHeartRadio recently announced an upcoming live show featuring the septet, heralding the band’s full-swing return to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl band IZ*ONE will return to the music scene next month, resuming its high-profile music career that was put on hold amid a vote-rigging scandal involving the band’s native audition show last year. “Mnet and the management agencies of IZ*ONE members decided to resume their activities in respect [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The K-pop scene has a new — or some may say old — shining star. Yang Joon-il, a 50-year-old singer who was considered an outcast in the early ’90s, has enthralled fans in a dramatic comeback that took nearly three decades to happen. The fairy tale story all began [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the smartly organized, decadelong K-pop marketing formula, boy band BTS has unexceptionally heralded its new album releases with advance teaser videos and music samples during its past seven-year career. But instead of getting advance SNS hints and teasers about the band’s newest song, fans of BTS were completely [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Some angry fans are stepping up their demand that boy band EXO’s vocalist Chen leave the team after the member made a surprise announcement last week that he will get married. The 28-year-old singer, whose legal name is Kim Jong-dae, announced last week that he will soon get married [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ ENM, the operator of K-pop-oriented cable channel Mnet, said Monday it will launch a 25.3 billion-won (US$21.8 million) investment fund dedicated to the K-pop industry. The establishment of the fund, KC Vivace Investment Association, is in line with the entertainment giant’s pledge three weeks earlier to set up [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS’ global contemporary art initiative, “CONNECT, BTS,” has landed in Berlin, the second destination following London, the band’s management agency said Sunday. Big Hit said, “Rituals of Care,” an exhibition of performances, kicked off at Martin-Gropius-Bau, a modern art museum in the German capital Wednesday as the second leg [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super band BTS on Friday dropped “Black Swan,” a track from the band’s upcoming “Map of the Soul: 7″ album, scheduled for official release next month. The song hit major South Korean and overseas online music streaming services in the evening ahead of the full release of the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — KCON, an annual overseas K-pop concert series from entertainment giant CJ ENM, will hit four global cities this year including Tokyo and New York, the company said Friday. This year’s KCON, a festival of Korean music and culture, will kick off on April 3 at the Makuhari Messe convention [...]