SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean boy band BigBang was included on the Forbes’ list of the world’s 100 highest paid celebrities for this year. The U.S. economic magazine unveiled this in its article titled “Bigbang Theory: How K-pop’s Top Act Earned $44 Million In A Year” on Wednesday (on local time). It reported [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean boy band BigBang will hold a special concert to celebrate its 10th anniversary in August, the group’s agency said on Wednesday. The five-member hit K-pop group will stage “BigBang10 the Concert – 0.TO.10″ at the Seoul World Cup Stadium on Aug. 20, according to YG Entertainment. The [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Rebellious haute couture maestro Jean Paul Gaultier struck Korean fashion lovers with awe when his variation of women’s hanbok, a traditional Korean outfit, was unveiled in the media event of his latest exhibition here on Friday. The 64-year-old “enfant terrible” considered the upcoming exhibition at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza as a creation [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean boy band BigBang has won four awards at China’s 2016 QQ Music Awards, the group’s management said Thursday. The band received the best music video, most popular foreign group and best-selling foreign digital album awards for “Bang Bang Bang,” with its leader G-Dragon being picked as the male artist [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korean boy band BigBang awed some 13,000 fans in its final Seoul encore concert on Sunday, dropping the curtain on its “MADE” world tour that kicked off a year ago. The five-member K-pop group held three days of concerts over the weekend, drawing about 39,000 fans to the Olympic Gymnastics Arena [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Yonhap) - Hallyu K-pop stars BigBang, IU and ParkJin-young snagged the Netizens’ Choice Awards in the 13th round of the Korean Music Awards, the awarding committee said on Monday. This year’s KMA ceremony, held in Guro Arts Valley, western Seoul, recognized a total of 27 Korean solo and group acts. In the netizens’ re-vote that ran Feb. 15-22, BigBang won the most [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean actor Kim Soo-hyun and boy band BigBang have been name Best Actor and Best Boy Group, respectively, in a recent vote of 40 million hallyu fans around the world, an online news site said Wednesday. U.S.-based site Soompi, which covers the Korean Wave or hallyu, announced the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean boy band BigBang will embark on a tour in China next month after its concerts there drew tens of thousands of people last year, its agency said Friday. Starting with Shanghai from March 11-12, this year’s tour will take them to eight cities, including Shenzen, Zhenzhou, Hefei [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean boy band BigBang has cruised to the top of Japan’s Oricon chart with its new album “MADE SERIES,” its agency said Thursday. The band sold 80,262 copies of the album on Wednesday, the day of its release, and has comfortably sat atop Oricon’s Daily Albums and the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) - Boy bands BigBang and EXO reigned over South Korea’s digital and albums charts in 2015, respectively, while none of their female counterparts made it into the top 10 of either chart, a local music website said Tuesday. BigBang’s “Bang Bang Bang,” “Loser” and “Bae Bae” took the No. 1, 2 [...]