SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group Red Velvet will return next month with its third full-length album, the group’s agency said Wednesday. The album, “What A Chill Kill,” will come out on Nov. 13 and has 10 songs of various genres, SM Entertainment said. The quintet’s last studio album, “Perfect Velvet,” was [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The lead single of BTS vocalist Jungkook’s upcoming first solo album will be “Standing Next to You,” the group’s agency said Monday. The singer also unveiled a list of 11 songs to be on the “Golden” album due out Nov. 3 on social media. Also among the 11 tracks [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope of K-pop juggernaut BTS will release a CD edition of his debut solo album “Jack in the Box” released a year ago, the band’s agency said Monday. BigHit Music said the album’s “HOPE Edition” will be put out on Aug. 18. The edition will have three live tracks [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean piano prodigy Lim Yunchan said Monday he wanted to deliver Beethoven’s utopia through the composer’s No. 5 Piano Concerto “Emperor” on his first live album in collaboration with Gwangju Symphony Orchestra. The 18-year-old took the stage with the local orchestra, conducted by Hong Suk-won, at Tongyeong Concert [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — For award-winning South Korean conductor Chung Myung-whun, playing the piano is a way to express love through an instrument he has cherished since childhood. “One thing that has not changed (over time) is that the piano remains my first love,” the maestro said in a news conference in Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop dynamo BTS is set to drop a new edition of its hit album “BE” next month, the band’s agency said Monday. The new edition, titled the “Essential Edition,” will drop on Feb. 19, according to Big Hit Entertainment. BTS initially released the “Deluxe Version” of “BE” in November. [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Baekhyun, a main vocalist of popular K-pop boy band EXO and SuperM, will return with his second solo EP later this month, his agency said Saturday. The seven-track album, titled “Delight,” will hit the local music scene on May 25, according to SM Entertainment. Released in July last year, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The roaring K-pop boom in South Korea is reviving the fate of perishing CD music and other physical music record formats. Since the early 2000s, compact disc as a music distribution format has been increasingly replaced by other digital storage and distribution formats such as internet streaming. Reversing the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Breaking out of a long legal battle with his former management agency, Kang Daniel, a pivotal member of the now-defunct boy band Wanna One, hit the summer music scene Thursday with his first solo album “Color On Me.” Kang wrote the lyrics for the four out of the total [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Pop diva Lee Hyori has signed with an entertainment agency to prepare for her return to the music scene, an agency official said Thursday. Lee, who debuted as a member of girl group Fin.K.L. in 1998, recently signed an exclusive contract with Kiwi Media Group, headed by renowned composer [...]