SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy group BTS set yet another milestone in South Korea’s music history Saturday, with its new song “Dynamite” grabbing the No. 3 spot on Britain’s Official Top 100 Singles Chart in the first week of its release. No. 3 on the British music chart marks the highest [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Big Hit Entertainment, the management agency-label of K-pop giant BTS, said Thursday that the plan for an in-person BTS concert announced for fall has come under uncertainty as sporadic cluster infections across the country continue to pile up. In an announcement on Weverse, the company’s mobile fan community-commerce platform, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS is no stranger to breaking records, but this time the K-pop band may be on the verge of making history, as the chance of it becoming the first-ever South Korean music group to conquer the highly coveted Billboard Hot 100 chart appears more and more within range. Upon [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Global K-pop sensation BTS on Monday expressed gratitude toward a fan-led charity project to benefit the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the United States that was organized as a direct response to the hefty donation the band made earlier to the same cause. “We just want the world [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A textbook package for learning Korean language, with officially-licensed contents of K-pop giants BTS, is available for purchase, its publisher said Monday. Big Hit Edu, the education content subsidiary of Big Hit Entertainment, said it has released “Learn! Korean with BTS,” the Korean-language learning product comprised of four textbooks [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The three-letter acronym of global K-pop sensation BTS, which stands for either the Korean expression Bangtan Sonyeondan, meaning Bulletproof Boy Scouts, or Beyond The Scene, may as well stand for Break The Stats, with the band’s new digital single “Dynamite” blowing up international chart and YouTube records. At 1 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Sometimes a small slice of comforting, feel-good entertainment, whether it be music, television or film, can go a long way in dealing with stress and fatigue, especially now more than ever amidst the raging COVID-19 pandemic. And that’s exactly what global K-pop sensation BTS had in mind when preparing [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – J-hope, a member of popular K-pop band BTS, donated 100 million won (US$84,416) for children suffering economic hardship due to the new coronavirus pandemic, a charity group said Tuesday. According to ChildFund Korea, J-hope expressed hope that his donation will be delivered to children in crisis, especially to those [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Big Hit Entertainment, the management agency of K-pop group BTS, announced Tuesday that it has partnered with the Korea Foundation (KF) and the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) in producing a remote Korean-language course featuring the K-pop sensation. Through the partnership, KF will open a BTS-themed remote learning [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Big Hit Entertainment, the label-management agency of K-pop group BTS, said Monday it has launched a new character brand called TinyTAN, inspired by and modeled after the band’s seven members. TinyTAN, consisting of BTS-inspired animated characters, revolves around a fictional universe in which the alter egos of BTS members [...]