SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group BTS has made the list of the top 10 musicians in the United States for 2017, according to American music publication Billboard. BTS ranked No. 10 on Billboard’s Top Artists year-end chart this year, as seen on the company’s website Monday (local time). Ed Sheeran and Bruno [...]
CHUNCHEON, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Actor and singer Jang Keun-suk has been chosen as an honorary ambassador for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics. Jang will represent the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, as well as tourism in Gangwon Province, after receiving a plaque in celebration of his appointment at an event held [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop sensation BTS unveiled a new song meant to promote Seoul overseas on Wednesday, drawing huge Internet traffic that caused the temporary outage of its host Web site. The song titled “With Seoul” was uploaded for free download at noon on the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s tourism promotion site, www.visitseoul.net. The site crashed within minutes of release and remained inaccessible for hours, according to officials. The boy group has been [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Singer-songwriter Zion.T said Monday he was honored by industry veteran Lee Moon-sae signing off on a duet with him, praising him as a pioneer who defined the sentiment of modern Korean pop music. “He’s a senior artist that I dearly love and admire, so I dared myself to ask him. I told him I heard hallucinations of his voice [...]
(image: Mnet) SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Girl group TWICE has won the Song of the Year Award at the Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) for the second-consecutive year with “Signal,” according to the music television network Thursday. The nine-member act was announced as the winner of the highly coveted award Wednesday at Yokohama [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Kora Bizwire) – K-pop star Taeyeon has caused a multi-vehicle traffic accident in Seoul, according to police and her agency Wednesday. The singer of the idol group Girls’ Generation rear-ended a taxi while driving her Mercedes in southern Seoul around 8 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Gangnam Police Station. The taxi crashed into an Audi that was infront from the impact. Two passengers in the taxi and the driver [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Postage stamps designed after K-pop artist Kim Jae-joong from JYJ will be released in February in Japan. According to C-JeS Entertainment, preorders for ‘REBOOT’, a set of postage stamps consisting of Jae-joong’s pictures, began on Monday and instantly topped HMV’s sales chart. It’s the second time Jae-joong’s postage stamps have [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop band BTS appeared on American daytime talk program “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and thanked its U.S. fans for their warm support despite language and cultural barriers. The pre-taped broadcast was aired Monday afternoon (local time) and featured the group’s first TV performance of “Mic Drop,” which was released [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Soyou, former member of the disbanded K-pop group Sistar, will release her first solo album next month, according to her agency Monday. Soyou, whose real name is Kang Ji-hyun, will put out “Re:Born” on Dec. 13, Starship Entertainment said. The record will be “Part. 1,” or the first installment, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video of Psy’s “Gangnam Style” registered more than 3 billion views on YouTube at 8 a.m. Sunday, continuing to smash the video-sharing site’s records, according to his agency YG Entertainment. The electro-dance song, released in July 2012, and the signature horse-riding dance made the quirky rapper and [...]