SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Mnet Asian Music Awards, or MAMA, the biggest annual K-pop awards series held outside of South Korea, is reconsidering Japan and Hong Kong as its destinations for this year’s event, according to the event’s organizer. Having been among the biggest consumers of K-pop outside of Korea, Japan and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — An unprecedentedly large number of high-profile K-pop concerts and album releases are set to hit Japan from August onward as K-pop is enjoying a heyday in the neighboring country, but an accelerating trade row between Korea and Japan is feared to pose uncertainty over their future. Pushing its diplomatic [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korean K-pop sensation BTS is returning to the silver screen with its documentary film “Bring The Soul: The Movie,” people are waiting to see whether the boy band can join other local movies to break the monthslong Disney dominance at the local box office. “Bring The Soul” [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Two top-tier K-pop stars, Jihyo of girl band TWICE and solo artist Kang Daniel, confirmed Monday that they are in a romantic relationship. Early Monday, a news outlet released photos of the two stars on a date near Kang Daniel’s home in Hannam-dong in central Seoul. Within a few [...]
INCHEON, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The municipality of Incheon, west of Seoul, is planning to build a massive tourist complex in a hilly coastal area just west of Incheon International Airport after designating it as a free economic zone, officials said Friday. According to the Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority, the new tourist complex, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Explosive K-pop girl band ITZY dropped Monday its first EP whose title track is a collaboration among multiple high-profile K-pop composers. The record, “IT’z ICY,” is the four-member band’s first EP since its debut in February with two singles, including “Dalla Dalla.” “Dalla Dalla” set a record as a [...]
SEJONG, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — At a trade fair exhibiting Korean goods in Bangkok last month, whenever a customer came to the small booth where he was promoting beauty products, Jake Choi would use his smartphone to show them a video clip as part of his sales pitch. The three-minute video includes a scene [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Breaking out of a long legal battle with his former management agency, Kang Daniel, a pivotal member of the now-defunct boy band Wanna One, hit the summer music scene Thursday with his first solo album “Color On Me.” Kang wrote the lyrics for the four out of the total [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS has been nominated for American TV channel MTV’s 2019 Video Music Awards in four award categories, the TV channel’s website showed Wednesday. “Boy With Luv,” BTS’ latest single featuring Halsey, is competing in the best collaboration category for the fan-voted music awards whose final awards [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A family court on Monday approved a divorce settlement for high-profile star couple Song Hye-kyo and Song Joong-ki, allowing them to get legally divorced. The Seoul Family Court held a closed-door hearing over the divorce arrangement for the couple but did not provide details, in accordance of the wishes [...]