SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Representing the old and new idol groups, GOD and EXO play a tug-of-war to rule the K-pop charts. Just after one day when the “new” idol group EXO released the tracks in its second mini album “Overdose” which took the No. 1 place in 10 music streaming sites on [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s most lovable father-daughter duo Choo Sung-hoon and Sarang has appeared on a Nikon camera commercial. Sarang (meaning “Love” in Korean), the 2-year-old daughter of mixed martial artist Choo and famous Japanese fashion model Shiho Yano, has become the nation’s cutest baby among Korean viewers after making an appearance on “The [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A new YouTube commercial featuring Korea’s man of “gangster honor” Kim Bo-sung has logged in more than 600,000 hits within a few days of launch. The comic action star amuses the viewer by crying out “No caffeine, no carbonic acid, no artificial color!” Using his trademark word “euiri” (Korean equivalent [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop group EXO set highest record of preorders with its new mini album “Overdose.” Released on May 7, EXO’s new album secured 658,710 copies of preorders (Korean version 372,160 copies and Chinese version 286,550 copies) and set record in the volume of preorders in mini album history. Upon releasing [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Billboard reviewed favorably the new music video of Akdong Musician “Give Love,” saying “another peppy, breezy track.” On May 5, Billboard introduced Akdong Musician’s third single “Give Love” and its music video. About the music video, Billboard said, “After a somber mini-film for second single ‘Melted,’ Akdong Musician released [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) – “Crush,” the second album of Korea’s quartet girl group 2NE1 ranked 61st on Billboard album chart, the highest ever score in the K-Pop history. 2NE1 also secured 22 percent of popularity rating in the “most popular K-Pop Girl Group” survey conducted by the “Girl Group Week” magazine. Billboard introduced “Come Back [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics has unveiled a new commercial of the Ultra HD TV that depicts the dynamic movement of Koo Ja-Cheol and Son Heung-min, the Bundesliga football players, in a special filming technique that makes the images look like super-high-resolution 3D videos. The commercial video released on YouTube shows vividly the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, May 2, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The mundane-looking fried chicken has transformed into a luxury three-course cuisine of ricotta cheese salad, green fried chicken breast and cheeseballs. It came back with actress Jun Ji-hyun, also known as Gianna Jun, of “My Lover from the Star” fame who starred in a commercial of the newly introduced [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Apink, a lovely six-member girl group, successfully came back with their new mini album “Pink Blossom” in late March and the title track of “Mr. Chu” have swept the local music charts throughout the month of April. “Mr. Chu” is a cute and fun pop dance song that [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 29, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics produced the commercial film for its “Smart Air Conditioner Q9000” with the title of “Yuna Kim’s Let It Go.” In the CF, Yuna Kim dressed in pure-white figure skating apparel plays her beautiful performance on the ice. While she is performing her plays, the chorus [...]