SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has unveiled a second teaser for its new mobile devices launch event featuring K-pop group BTS, as the tech titan seeks to boost gadget sales amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The teaser, released Monday, features BTS, online video game Fortnite streamer Myth and American singer Khalid and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Words from the song “Run” by K-pop group BTS have been featured on an iconic signboard in downtown Seoul. The new billboard on the exterior of the Kyobo Building in the Gwanghwamun square, central Seoul, reads, “Run, run, run again. It’s OK if you fall. Run, run, run again. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop giant BTS on Monday announced that its new single album set to drop later this month is titled “Dynamite.” The group announced the name of the upcoming English-language single through a teaser image shared on the group’s social media. The K-pop septet announced last week that the new [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop giant BTS won three nominations for the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards in the United States, according to the American television network Thursday (local time). The South Korean septet’s “ON,” the lead song on the band’s album “Map of the Soul 7,” was nominated in the categories of [...]
CHUNCHEON, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS, worldwide K-pop superstars and creator of ‘hotspots’ where anywhere they go turns into a tourist destination, spent a week in Gangwon Province enjoying the forest at a resort home. The story of BTS’s vacation in Gangwon Province will be made into a reality television series show titled “In [...]
ROME, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A bimonthly magazine dedicated to all things related to K-pop giant BTS has been launched in Italy, in a reflection of the band’s growing popularity, according to the publisher Monday. Italian publishing house Sprea S.p.A launched the magazine, BTS, last month, with the full-color launch edition consisting of some [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop giants BTS plan to release a new English-language single next month, the band’s agency announced Monday. The seven-piece act will drop the yet-unnamed digital single on Aug. 21 on domestic and international streaming services, Big Hit Entertainment, the band’s label-agency, announced on the group’s online fan community BTS [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstars BTS’ latest online concert has set a new Guinness world record for most viewers. “BTS have achieved a new Guinness World Records title for most viewers for a music concert livestream,” the Guinness World Records website said Thursday. “756,000 fans from over 100 countries tuned in to [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop band BTS’ latest album “Map of the Soul: 7″ was the most-sold album in the United States in the first half of 2020, a global music sales measurement company said Friday. Nielsen Music’s U.S. Mid-Year Report for 2020 showed that “Map of the Soul: 7,” BTS’ fourth full-length [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Online preorders for Samsung Electronics Co.’s special edition package of its Galaxy smartphone and earbuds in collaboration with K-pop sensation BTS sold out within an hour in South Korea, the company said Friday. Preorders for the package, comprised of the Galaxy S20 Plus BTS edition and the Galaxy Buds [...]