SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS will host a set of four Japanese fan meetings in the last two months of the year, the band’s Japanese fan site showed Sunday. The upcoming events in Japan are a follow-up to the septet’s recent fan meeting series “BTS 5TH MUSTER [MAGIC SHOP],” held [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Big Hit Entertainment, home to K-pop superstars BTS, has revealed its larger-than-expected revenue for the first half of 2019, proving itself to be a great potential game changer in the industry. The unlisted company said Wednesday it posted a record 200.1 billion won (US$166.5 billion) in sales for the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A new drama series featuring the growth story of global K-pop band BTS is under production to be aired next year, the head of the band’s music label said Wednesday. “With a view to launch it in the second half of 2020, (we) are preparing a drama series based [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Off to its first-ever official break in its sensational seven-year career, K-pop super band BTS is away from the public eye, but the presence of its members’ surprise internet feeds and release of a special photo album continues to make the world music scene abuzz with the beloved band. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — “Bring the Soul: The Movie,” the latest documentary film featuring global band BTS, will be released in a new mobile version this month on an application for BTS fans, the band’s management agency said Friday. The first of the six episodes of the mobile version, “Bring the Soul: Docu-Series,” [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super stars BTS went on a long-term break to recharge themselves following the band’s Billboard-topping back-to-back album releases, its management agency said Monday. “Group BTS will have its first official long-term vacation since its debut,” Bit Hit Entertainment said on the band’s Twitter account and mobile fan application [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — V, a member of the globally celebrated K-pop boy band BTS, released his English solo song “Winter Bear” on Saturday. The new song was put up on BTS’ official social media for free download, along with a music video. V, whose real name is Kim Tae-hyung, composed the song [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korean K-pop sensation BTS is returning to the silver screen with its documentary film “Bring The Soul: The Movie,” people are waiting to see whether the boy band can join other local movies to break the monthslong Disney dominance at the local box office. “Bring The Soul” [...]
SEJONG, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — At a trade fair exhibiting Korean goods in Bangkok last month, whenever a customer came to the small booth where he was promoting beauty products, Jake Choi would use his smartphone to show them a video clip as part of his sales pitch. The three-minute video includes a scene [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS’ fan meetings and concerts in South Korea last month created an economic effect worth nearly 500 billion won (US$424.2 million), an academic report showed Wednesday. According to the report by a research team led by Pyun Ju-hyun, a business professor at Seoul’s Korea University, BTS [...]