SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — All members of TWICE have renewed their contracts with JYP Entertainment, breaking the so-called “seven-year curse,” a crisis experienced by many K-pop idol groups around the seventh year of their debut. “We renewed contracts with all members ahead of the expiration of TWICE’s contracts this autumn,” the agency said [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope, the first BTS member to launch a solo venture, entered the U.S. Billboard’s main singles chart with “More,” the chart has said. The song debuted at No. 82 on the Hot 100 chart for this week, Billboard said on social media on Monday (U.S. time). It came out [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Just over 24 hours into their preseason tour to South Korea, Tottenham Hotspur players are putting in the work. Featuring South Korean icon and Premier League Golden Boot winner Son Heung-min, Tottenham will play two exhibition matches here this week: first, against Team K League, made up of stars [...]
YEONGJONG ISLAND, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — June Huh, the Korean American mathematician who won this year’s prestigious Fields Medal, said Friday he is “happy and delighted” to win the award and pledged to play a greater role in advancing the field of mathematics in South Korea. Huh made the remarks upon arrival at Incheon [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Rising K-pop boy group Enhypen said Friday it will hold the first world tour since its debut, starting in September. The “Enhypen World Tour ‘Manifesto’” will kick off in Seoul from Sept. 17-18 and involve 12 more concerts in six major U.S. cities and three Japanese cities until November, [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — “Jack in the Box,” the upcoming first solo album by BTS’ J-Hope, will contain a total of 10 tracks, the group’s agency Big Hit Music said Friday. According to the list unveiled by the agency, the album will have “Intro,” “More,” “Pandora’s Box,” “Stop,” “=,” “Music Box: Reflection,” “What [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup BTS has ranked high on the U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart for the third consecutive week with its anthology album “Proof.” The album came in 13th, down nine notches from the previous week’s fourth, on this week’s Billboard 200 chart, released Wednesday (U.S. time). “Proof” is a [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – June Huh, the Korean American mathematician who won this year’s prestigious Fields Medal, said Wednesday the ability to work together as a team in large projects has become important in the field of modern advanced mathematics, adding that such a process has an “addictive nature that is hard to [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Rising South Korean girl group aespa has called for future generations to pay attention to and take action for the sustainable development goals during a speech in a U.N. forum. The band addressed the 2022 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development held at the U.N. headquarters in New York [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group WINNER has sidestepped setbacks caused by two members’ mandatory military duties with brisk individual activities and is now ready to bring their uplifting vibes back to the music scene. The quartet made a full-group comeback for the first time in more than two years Tuesday with [...]