SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The popular K-pop group BigBang was named the best world artist at an annual music awards ceremony hosted by an Italian cable TV channel, the group’s management said Monday. The boys won “Best Artist from the World” in the Italian MTV Awards 2016, becoming the only Korean act or [...]
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SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Gangnam Style, Psy’s worldwide sensation powered by an iconic horse dance, set numerous world records. The song’s music video is still the most liked and viewed video on YouTube. But most of all, Gangnam Style was the first K-pop song, ever, to attract global attention. Ironically, however, 38-year-old Psy is [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Yonhap) — Yang Hyun-suk, the chief of YG Entertainment, topped the list of stock-rich celebrities in South Korea as his entertainment agency’s shares rose this year on upbeat business outlook, data showed Tuesday. Yang’s shares in his company listed on the secondary KOSDAQ market were estimated at 201.18 billion won (US$186.12 million) [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy band Big Bang will go on a world concert tour starting in Seoul this month, its management agency said Thursday. The band will put on some 70 concerts in 15 countries around the world, including the Americas, through next year before some 1.4 million fans, YG Entertainment [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Big Bang rapper G-Dragon attended Chanel’s 2015 S/S Haute Couture Collection at the Grand Palais, Paris on January 27. He also attended Chanel’s 2015 S/S Collection last fall, and his presence at these shows has cemented his ‘fashionista’ place in the world. G-Dragon wore a tweed jacket from Chanel’s 2014/2015 Cruise [...]
SEOUL, Dec 25 (Korea Bizwire) – New York Magazine named Korean boy band Big Bang’s Taeyang and G-Dragon as some of the best-dressed street-style stars of 2014, YG entertainment said on December 24. In an article about 45 of the most fashionable street-style stars, Taeyang and G-Dragon ranked 42nd. New York Magazine commented on them [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been years since rumors that G-Dragon, member of K-pop idol group Big Bang, is dating Japanese model-actress Kiko Mizuhara have been around. Now a Korean entertainment news outlet revealed on October 8 they are really in love, which led to a plunge in the share price of YG [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Seungri, a member of Korean popular boy group Big Bang, had a car accident around 3:30 a.m. on Friday in Korea. He was on his way back home after a launching party for Nonagon, a fashion collaboration brand made by YG Entertainment and Cheil Industries. It was reported that Seungri [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea’s big-three talent agencies–SM Entertainment, YG Entertainment, and JYP Entertainment–are competing hard in launching new idol groups. Of these, however, only YG Entertainment has seen its share price soar recently while others are languishing in the market. According to financial investment sources on August 13, the top-three entertainment agencies have debuted [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) —LG Uplus announced on August 10 that it is launching a new TV commercial for its “LTE Live Broadcasting” service, which allows users to broadcast video feeds from the smartphone to their living room in real time for the first time in the world. LTE Live Broadcasting is the world’s first [...]