SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Big Hit Entertainment, the music label of K-pop super band BTS, is scrambling to expand its business portfolio of K-pop artists following a sensationally successful year in 2019. A media report said earlier this week that Big Hit is on its way to acquire and merge with Pledis Entertainment, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop stars BTS on Tuesday launched a series of art exhibitions in collaboration with 22 contemporary artists from around the world ahead of the release of its new album next month. The project called Connect. BTS will show artworks that “resonate with the BTS philosophy” of love, connection and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS on Friday released the first teaser video for its new album slated for Feb. 21. The group uploaded “Interlude: Shadow,” the first trailer of its fourth full-length album “Map of the Soul: 7″ on its YouTube channel at 12 a.m. Friday. In the three-minute video, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super band BTS will drop a new digital single this month ahead of its official release of a new album in February, according to the band’s management agency Thursday. Big Hit Entertainment posted a “comeback map” on the official BTS website early Thursday morning, providing the timeline of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 180,000 fans visited a BTS pop-up store during its 80-day run in Seoul, the management agency of the K-pop boy band said Wednesday. The pop-up store, “House of BTS,” operated from Oct. 18 till Sunday in the bustling commercial and entertainment district of Gangnam in southern Seoul to [...]
NEW YORK/SEOUL, Jan. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BTS were the second South Korean pop artists to perform live in New York City’s Times Square on New Year’s eve, in a spectacle packed with crowds set for a countdown to the new year. The seven-member boy band showed up on the stage in the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Hirari Yamauchi, a 48-year-old Japanese housewife, and her teenage daughter flew to South Korea for a two-day trip this week, solely for a highly anticipated visit to a pop-up store themed around K-pop boy band BTS currently open in Seoul. The mother and daughter discovered BTS a year ago [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS created an economic effect worth 1 trillion won (US$860.7 million) with its latest three concerts in Seoul, an academic report showed Monday. The septet finished off its latest world tour, “Love Yourself: Speak Yourself,” with the final leg in Seoul where three evening concerts at [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS will ring in the new year performing at the United States’ most-watched New Year’s Eve concert, the special program’s organizer has said. “Making 2020 right by ringing in the new year with BTS! Join us live from Times Square on New Year’s Eve,” the organizer [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The sensational global ascent of K-pop band BTS has brought to the fore the emergence of a new breed of globally connected, dedicated fans as represented by ARMY, the group’s fandom. Powered by the connectivity of the internet and social network services, ARMY engages in organized transnational operations to [...]