SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new smartphone app that can check the change in the amount of urine produced by analyzing the sound of urination. A joint research team from the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital and the Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital announced on Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The amount of manure generated by livestock farms every year is estimated at more than 50 million tons, most of which is used as compost, the agriculture ministry said Wednesday. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs conducted a complete enumeration survey on the current state of livestock [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — NewJeans, one of the hottest K-pop girl groups, said Wednesday its secret to success was “honesty” during a press conference in Seoul on Wednesday. When asked what it thinks is behind its success, member Minji said she and her bandmates had not expected the band would receive this much [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group TWICE has stayed in the top 20 on the Billboard 200 main albums chart for the second consecutive week. According to the latest chart update released on Tuesday (U.S. time), the nonet’s 12th EP, “Ready to Be,” ranked 11th, dropping nine notches from its No. [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Jisoo, a member of girl group BLACKPINK, has set a new record for a K-pop female soloist as preorders for her first individual single surpassed 1.24 million copies, the group’s agency said Tuesday. “Me,” the album set to roll out Friday, recorded 510,000 preorders just two days after such [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop rookie Fifty Fifty has debuted on the Billboard’s main singles chart with its first single “Cupid,” becoming the fastest group to enter the chart in K-pop history. Billboard said on social media Monday (U.S. time) that “Cupid” entered the Hot 100 chart at No. 100 this week, just [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — “Attention,” a hit song from rookie girl group NewJeans, has garnered 200 million streams on Spotify, the group’s agency said Tuesday. The song had accumulated 200,562,682 streams on the world’s largest music streaming platform as of Sunday (U.S. time), ADOR said, citing data from the platform. This brought the [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) – “Set Me Free Pt. 2″ by Jimin, a member of the K-pop superband BTS, has entered the U.S. Billboard’s main songs chart for this week. Billboard said Monday (U.S. time) the song arrived at No. 30 on the Hot 100 chart, adding Jimin became the first BTS member to [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A new unit composed of three members of the popular K-pop boy group NCT will make a debut with its first EP next month, the group’s agency said Monday. Dojaejung that consists of Doyoung, Jaehyun and Jungwoo will drop the EP “Perfume” on April 17, SM Entertainment said. They [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Jimin of K-pop superstar BTS dropped his first official album as a solo artist Friday. “Face” consists of six tracks — both Korean and English-language versions of the main single “Like Crazy,” “Face-off,” “Interlude: Dive,” “Alone” and “Set Me Free Pt. 2,” according to the band’s agency, BigHit Music. [...]