SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean artists under the SM Entertainment label held a huge joint concert in Paris, France in 2011. Although the concert was a watershed moment for K-pop music in general, signaling for the first time the rise of K-pop in Europe, French critics were less than impressed. An excerpt from [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Fans of K-pop are fuming over allegations that producers of idol singing groups in China and Japan are copying the concepts of K-pop bands. LDH, the management company of famed Japanese dance group Exile recently revealed plans to launch the boy group Ballistik Boyz. Composed of Hidaka Ryuta, Gano [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop sensation BTS’ music video for “DNA” exceeded 400 million views on YouTube on Saturday, marking the first time that a South Korean music group has set such a record. The video for the lead song on the group’s mini album “LOVE YOURSELF: Her” surpassed the milestone on the [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Major K-pop label JYP Entertainment has teamed up with the biggest Chinese music-streaming company to launch a band of six Chinese boys in their early teens, the Korean company said Monday.The group Boy Story will debut in China in September through the joint project between JYP’s Chinese branch and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl band TWICE will embark on a two-month arena tour in Japan starting in September, its agency said Monday. According to JYP Entertainment, the nine-member act will play in Chiba on Sept. 29 and 30, Aichi on Oct. 2 and 3, Kobe on Oct. 12-14 and Tokyo on [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Girl group BLACKPINK will return with its first EP album, “Square Up,” on June 15, the group’s management agency said. Following its first two singles, “Square One” and “Square Two,” the forthcoming release is the third in the group’s “Square” series. “BLACKPINK has so far presented only singles. The [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — At a press conference last December, Bang Si-hyuk, CEO of Big Hit Entertainment, the company that manages the K-pop boy band sensation BTS, said that he hoped the group would serve “as a model [for other K-pop groups] and not just end as a mere happening.” Bang’s statement reflected [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop darling BTS has added to K-pop history with its latest song “Fake Love,” ranked 10th on Billboard’s highly competitive Hot 100 chart. The result, released Tuesday (U.S. time), came one day after the song’s parent album “Love Yourself: Tear” reached the first spot of Billboard’s top 200 albums [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — When the members of K-pop boyband BTS were asked why they make music in an interview last January, they wanted to bring up the topic of self-love and happiness. BTS, which stands for “bangtan” boys, (bangtan in Korean means bullet-proof) earned their first number one album on the Billboard [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean TV channels will participate in China’s biggest broadcasting content fair for the first time in two years in the latest sign that China is loosening its restriction on Korean cultural products, industry sources said Monday. China banned Korean dramas, films, packaged tours and K-pop starting in 2016 in [...]