SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — S.M. Entertainment, one of South Korea’s leading talent agencies, said Thursday it has filed a damage suit with a Chinese court against a Chinese member of the popular K-pop boy band EXO for an alleged breach of contract. Luhan, 24, a member of the band consisting of four Chinese [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – EXO was awarded the honor of the Best Global Idol Group at the 14th Annual Huading Awards in China on January 8. EXO-M members Chen and Lay attended the awards show to accept the honor. The Huading Awards are one of the most prestigious music awards in China, and are [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – SM Entertainment has introduced the first 3D hologram video musical in the world. ‘School OZ’ will play at the SM TOWN Coex Artium Building’s SM TOWN theater in Gangnam, Seoul on January 14. The musical will feature floating 3D holographic actors, while 40 meters of screens, 14 projectors and a [...]
SEOUL, Dec 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Jessica, the ex-member of Girls Generation, expressed her desire to succeed in China. On December 23rd, Jessica was spotted at the 2014 SOHU Fashion Awards in China. She was awarded the “Asian Fashion Icon of the Year” award, which ex-EXO member Kris and G-Dragon’s reported girlfriend Kiko Mizuhara also received. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Nongshim’s Shin-Ramyun and the mega-hit drama “My Love from the Star” were among the masterpieces of Korea selected by the Chinese. The Korea Marketing Association (KMA) announced on October 23 that the list of 42 Korean masterpiece products “mostly loved by the Chinese.” KMA conducted an online survey with 10,768 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – “SMTown Live World Tour IV,” an ongoing 2014 worldwide concert tour by SM Town, ended successfully in Shanghai following Seoul and Tokyo. Over 30,000 fans flocked to Shanghai Indoor Stadium to watch “SMTown Live World Tour in Shanghai” at 5 p.m. on October 18, SM Entertainment reported. At the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A fan club of a member of popular K-pop group EXO prepared a special birthday present for the idol star. To commemorate the birthday of EXO’s Chinese member Lay which fell on October 7, the members of Lay’s fan club “Must Plan” made 110 corn socks dolls by themselves and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – EXO, an internationally loved K-pop boy band with a huge fan base all across Asia, will launch its official global fan club, EXO-L, which will be the first fan club to have its own mobile application. EXO’s talent agency, SM Entertainment, announced on August 5, “We are officially launching [...]
![[Feature] Forest Donations: A New Model of Star Supporting by Fans](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/20130417220527_1028119319-1.jpg "[Feature] Forest Donations: A New Model of Star Supporting by Fans")
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been years since the so-called Korean Wave swept the world. These days it is not so hard to find fans in Korea or any place in the world cheer passionately for a Korean idol star. Sometimes the lengths the fans go to in expressing their love for the [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – G-Market, an open Internet shopping site, introduced an event called “Genius Game with GD” to promote its G-Market smartphone app with the leader of boy group Big Bang’s G-Dragon. After hitting xylophone notes several times, G-Dragon asks viewers “What was the last note I hit?” Anyone who knows the [...]