SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Actor Lee Min-ho will start working at the Gangnam Ward Office in southern Seoul next month as a substitute for his mandatory military service, his management agency said Wednesday. “Lee will start working there May 12 and will go through a four-week military training on dates set by the [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The “Whistle” music video by BLACKPINK, one of K-pop’s biggest breakout stars from last year, surpassed 100 million views on YouTube on Saturday, the group’s agency said. The video hit 100,143,704 views as of 7 p.m., eight months after it was uploaded on the global video sharing service last [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The global popularity of hallyu (the Korean Wave) content is gradually waning. Based on an online survey of 7,200 consumers from 15 countries in six continents (from October to December 2016), Monday’s report by the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange showed that only 31 percent of the respondents had [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The final round of an Italian K-pop competition was held at an exhibition center in Rome on Saturday. As part of Romics, one of the country’s biggest comic fairs, fourteen group and individual talents who passed the preliminary rounds showed off their moves for the final time to K-pop [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ E&M, South Korea’s leading entertainment and media content company, said Monday it will open new channels exclusively for airing “hallyu” content in Malaysia, Vietnam and Hong Kong. The company said it will launch a Korean movie channel “tvN Movies” in Malaysia and “TV Blue,” a channel for providing [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean actor Lee Min-ho is the main presenter for MBC’s upcoming three-part documentary on the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) – the 4-kilometer wide, 250-kilometer long no man’s land that divides the Korean Peninsula in two. Dubbed DMZ, The Wild, the production of the series took roughly two years. The 30-year-old [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group Girl’s Day, in celebration of its eighth year, came out with its fifth EP album on Monday, promising to remain together for the time being. “We renewed our contracts with about a year left for each of us. We had a lot of internal discussion,” [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Sexism is rife in Korean TV dramas, a recent report of gender equality in the media from the Korean Institute for Gender Equality Promotion and Education (KIGEPE) has found. The KIGEPE’s monitoring of gender equality in the media revealed six out of ten female characters in Korean drama series tend [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean boy band BTS, also known as Bangtan Boys, has wrapped up the South American leg of its world tour with success, selling more than 40,000 tickets in the region, according to its agency Tuesday. According to Big Hit Entertainment, which represents BTS, the team performed in front [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Solji, a member of K-pop girl group EXID, announced this week that she would not be participating in the band’s upcoming album, as she is still struggling to recover from the hyperthyroidism she was diagnosed with last December. Although her hormone levels have returned to normal, she is still receiving [...]