SEOUL, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Three BTS songs will hit the playlist of the American space agency’s next journey to the moon as the agency is planning to make another lunar landing by 2024, the agency’s SNS feeds have shown. In a Twitter feed Tuesday, the Johnson Space Center of the National Aeronautics and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The government said Wednesday it will establish 13 new state-run King Sejong Institutes in 11 countries for foreigners wanting to learn the Korean language and culture. With the additions, the number of King Sejong Institutes, a public institution run by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to promote [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super stars BTS kicked off the group’s annual online fan festival to celebrate the 6th anniversary of the septet’s debut. A collection of photos, dubbed “Family Portrait,” was released through BTS’ social media accounts on Monday to mark the start of “2019 BTS FESTA.” The boy band hosts [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Super Junior will return as a nine-piece group with its ninth EP in the second half of this year, the band’s agency said Monday. Nine of its 11 members — Leeteuk, Heechul, Yesung, Shindong, Siwon, Eunhyuk, Donghae, Ryeowook and Kyuhyun — will participate in the album’s production, according to [...]
LONDON, Jun. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A wave of 60,000 spectators turned London’s landmark Wembley Stadium into a sea of ecstasy as K-pop band BTS took the biggest British concert stage with its signature hip hop number “Dionysus” late Saturday. It was a landmark moment of BTS’ high-flying world music career, debuting the band at [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Jin, a member of global stars BTS, joined the UNICEF Korea’s club of top donators, having contributed to the United Nations organization since last year, its Korea office said Friday. Jin’s financial donation to the Korean office of the United Nations Children’s Fund has surpassed 100 million won (US$84,000) [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — D.O., a member of the popular boy band EXO, will join the military in July, putting his flourishing entertainment career on hold, his management agency said Thursday. The 26-year-old, whose real name is Do Kyung-soo, will enlist in the Army on July 1 to fulfill his mandatory military service, [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Three rising K-pop stars and their agencies have recently gotten into trouble following revelations that the stars bullied classmates in their school years. They are Yoo Young-hyun, member of the popular indie band Jannabi, singer Hyolyn from the now-disbanded girl group Sistar and Yoon Seo-bin, once the front-runner of [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop star Psy will return to the forefront of the K-pop scene with a new album in early July, his management agency P Nation said Tuesday. “Psy will return with his ninth full-length album in early July … and premiere (the album) in the 2019 Swag Show,” the agency [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The K-Drama at LA Screening 2019 was held in West Hollywood on Wednesday (local time). The event was hosted by the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) for the promotion of K-dramas in the American market, where “Sky Castle” and 10 other popular Korean dramas have been screened. Staff from [...]