SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop megastar BTS is set to appear in a year-end concert organized by its agency, Big Hit Entertainment, the agency-label announced Thursday. Big Hit Entertainment, which also runs a namesake label, said the seven-member act will be included in the lineup for the “2021 New Year’s Eve Live presented [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup BTS’ upcoming Seoul concert in October will be held virtually only, according to the band’s management agency Friday, canceling the in-person element that was planned together. The Oct. 10-11 Seoul concert, “BTS Map Of The Soul ON:E,” was announced in August as an in-person show with government-mandated [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Big Hit Entertainment, the management agency-label of K-pop giant BTS, said Thursday that the plan for an in-person BTS concert announced for fall has come under uncertainty as sporadic cluster infections across the country continue to pile up. In an announcement on Weverse, the company’s mobile fan community-commerce platform, [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band Super Junior on Friday indefinitely put off its Japanese concerts after the neighboring country announced a plan to introduce quarantine measures for travelers from South Korea. Tokyo has announced that travelers coming from South Korea and China will be asked to stay at designated facilities for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super band BTS on Friday canceled the inaugural Seoul leg of its new world tour set to kick off in April as its home country is struggling to contain mass outbreaks of the novel coronavirus. The band’s management agency broke the news through its mobile fan platform, Weverse. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Grammy-winning teenage pop star Billie Eilish will have a concert in Seoul in August, marking the first South Korea visit by the chart-topping sensation. According to the announcement on the singer’s official website last week, Eilish’s 2020 world tour, titled “Where Do We Go?” will start March 9 in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — U2’s very first show in South Korea last Sunday left behind numerous memorable moments for everyone. U2 moved the hearts of so many fans throughout the concert that lasted for 2 hours and 20 minutes at Seoul’s Gocheok Sky Dome with a powerful performance and meaningful social commentary. The [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group BLACKPINK successfully held its first Tokyo Dome concert this week, with the attendance reaching about 55,000 fans, its management agency said Thursday. According to YG Entertainment, the concert as part of the BLACKPINK 2019-2020 World Tour in Your Area in Japan took place at Tokyo [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group TWICE will close its almost one-year-long concert journey in Seoul next year, the band’s agency said Monday. The two-day concert, titled “TWICE World Tour 2019 Twicelights,” will be held at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena in southeastern Seoul from March 7, according to JYP Entertainment. That will [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Tears and sweat wrapped up K-pop superband BTS’ year-long world concert tour in the capital of their home country on Tuesday. The famous home ARMY’s fan chant consecutively naming the seven BTS members brought to a close BTS’ “Love Yourself” world tour at the thundering Olympic Stadium in southern [...]