SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — KARA, a K-pop girl group that was hugely popular in South Korea and Japan, will be back Tuesday with its first release in 7 1/2 years, the band’s agency said. The special album, “Move Again,” will hit music services at 6 p.m., RBW said. It marks KARA’s first whole-group [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — KARA, a girl group that was hugely popular in the late 2000s and early 2010s, will be back to the music scene in November with its first album in seven years, its agency said Monday. The band, which debuted in 2007, had been one of the top second-generation K-pop [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group Girls’ Generation will make a comeback in August by dropping a new album to mark the 15th anniversary of its debut, the group’s agency said Tuesday. All eight members of the group will take part in the album that will be the band’s first release in five [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Psy, who rose to global fame through his viral video “Gangnam Style,” made a long-awaited comeback Friday with his ninth full-length album that he said was made “with great care.” “It’s an album I have prepared for a long time, with great care,” the 44-year-old singer-rapper said during a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Boy group BIGBANG will come back to the K-pop scene this spring after four years of hiatus due to the members’ mandatory military duties, the group’s management agency said Monday. “BIGBANG will drop a new song in the coming spring,” YG Entertainment said in a press release. “The group [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop star Park Yoo-chun appears to be preparing to resume his show business career, in defiance of a retirement pledge he made last year amid a drug scandal. In a message on his Instagram account Thursday, the former JYJ member announced a plan to officially open a website for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Popular K-pop band BIGBANG will make a much-awaited comeback to the stage at a U.S. music festival this spring after its members completed their military duties, the group’s agency said Friday. The act was invited to this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, in April, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Following a short-lived music career in the early 1990s, Yang Joon-il disappeared into obscurity, leaving many fans without a clue about the star. A JTBC TV show has recently brought the long-forgotten star back to the public consciousness, summoning his old fans, now in their 40′s, back to the [...]
JAKARTA, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Preparations for K-pop act Super Junior’s comeback are going smoothly, according to its members, with the bulk of the 11-member team having finished their mandatory military duties. “Just until yesterday I practiced our dance choreography with our members. We’re also planning to hold a concert,” Super Junior member Donghae [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Even before the term “K-pop” entered the global pop culture lexicon in the mid 2000s, South Korea did have a big and vibrant pop music scene. During the ’80s and ’90s, Korean pop music — then, and still, commonly referred to as “gayo” at home — was influenced heavily [...]