SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS has been nominated for American TV channel MTV’s 2019 Video Music Awards in four award categories, the TV channel’s website showed Wednesday. “Boy With Luv,” BTS’ latest single featuring Halsey, is competing in the best collaboration category for the fan-voted music awards whose final awards [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super band BTS will perform solo concert in Saudi Arabia in October, becoming the first non-Saudi Arabian artists to perform at a stadium in the country, its management agency has said. BTS announced the Saudi Arabian leg of their ongoing “Love Yourself: Speak Yourself” world tour on Sunday, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super band BTS’ four concerts in Japan this month drew a total of 210,000 fans, making the Japanese leg of the band’s world tour a solid success despite worsening trade and diplomatic rows between South Korea and Japan. On Saturday and Sunday, the Korean septet rocked Shizuoka’s 50,000-seat [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — As American pop icon Lady Gaga once inspired the U.S. pop scene to follow her example and find copycats, K-pop boy band BTS stands now as a force that changes the contours of the American pop industry, an American columnist specializing in K-pop said Tuesday. “In the grand scheme [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Roaring K-pop boy band BTS launched Monday an official mobile application channel to connect with fans around the world. The septet announced the opening of BTS Weverse, an official fan community based on the application Weverse. Through the channel, BTS will communicate with fans using text messages as well [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A bus stop on a remote east coast beach has been voted the most popular travel destination for K-pop group BTS’ fans planning to visit South Korea, a poll showed Monday. The “Hyangho Beach Bus Stop” in the Jumunjin district of Gangneung, Gangwon Province, ranked first in a popularity [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Boy band BTS’ four rounds of sensational fan meetings and concerts in the band’s home country of South Korea dazzled hundreds of thousands of avid fans over the past two weeks. But the events were shadowed by nagging complaints by ticket holders who were denied entry to the concerts [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Major landmarks in Seoul were illuminated in violet, the signature color of sensational K-pop band BTS, on Saturday as the band held its fan meeting and concerts in the capital in a festive mood. The septet held the Seoul leg of its “5th Muster [Magic Shop]” fan meeting and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Major landmarks in Seoul will be illuminated in violet, the signature color of the sensational K-pop band BTS, over the weekend to celebrate the band’s concerts in its home country. The city will light up two major bridges — Hannam Bridge and Dongho Bridge — that link southern Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — When BTS returned to a hero’s welcome at Incheon International Airport after finishing its monthlong tour of the Americas and Europe, scores of fans and journalists eagerly awaiting their arrival burst out laughing. That’s because three members of the septet — Jin, Suga and J-Hope — appeared wearing flashy [...]