SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean film “The Tunnel” will get a screening at a non-competition section of this year’s Locarno International Film Festival, according to the festival’s official website on Thursday. The survival-drama movie, starring actors Ha Jung-woo and Oh Dal-su and actress Bae Doona, will be screened outdoors in the [...]
TAEBAEK, South Korea, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Descendants of the Sun, featuring actor Song Joong-ki and actress Song Hye-kyo, was by far the biggest K-drama hit in 2016. The series, which aired from February 24 to April 22 in Korea, recorded an average audience share of 30.09 percent, and has been exported to 32 [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese members of South Korean girl groups protested on social media platforms against the international court’s South China Sea ruling. Victoria, a K-pop girl group f(x) member of S.M. Entertainment, posted a map that includes the South China Sea in Chinese territory on her Instagram and Weibo accounts Tuesday. [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Police on Monday said they concluded Park Yoo-chun, the scandal-ridden member of K-pop boy band JYJ, is clear of sexual assault allegations, saying it is hard to acknowledge that there was coercion involved. The 30-year-old actor-singer has been mired in a scandal as four different women, all working at local [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean boy band BigBang was included on the Forbes’ list of the world’s 100 highest paid celebrities for this year. The U.S. economic magazine unveiled this in its article titled “Bigbang Theory: How K-pop’s Top Act Earned $44 Million In A Year” on Wednesday (on local time). It reported [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Liquor companies, barred from public spaces and airtime, are resorting to top celebrities for maximized advertisement effect, according to industry officials Tuesday. The government has been tightening regulations on liquor ads, revising the law on national health improvement. Recent changes include barring liquor ads on TV from 7 a.m. [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Thursday, June 30, was a shameful day for the Korean music industry. Park Yoo-chun, a K-pop singer from the group JYJ who’s under high media attention for a sexual assault scandal, and Lee Juno, a 90s pop star from Seo Taiji and Boys who was recently accused of sexual molestation, [...]
LOS ANGELES, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) that gives out the Academy Awards has appointed four Koreans who represent the country’s film community, including actor Lee Byung-hun, as its new members, according to its official website on Wednesday. Lee, best known to Western viewers for his [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean boy band BigBang will hold a special concert to celebrate its 10th anniversary in August, the group’s agency said on Wednesday. The five-member hit K-pop group will stage “BigBang10 the Concert – 0.TO.10″ at the Seoul World Cup Stadium on Aug. 20, according to YG Entertainment. The [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean entertainment giant S.M. Entertainment said Tuesday it has launched a fresh legal fight against three Chinese EXO members who left the group and breached their contract. “We recently filed 14 cases with local Chinese courts against Kris, Luhan and Tao for leaving their team without approval and [...]