SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A K-pop festival hosted by South Korea’s leading content and media company CJ E&M will expand to the east coast of the U.S. from the west coast this summer, the company said Tuesday. KCON launched in 2012 and has quickly developed to be North America’s largest annual Korean cultural festival that [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Big Bang rapper G-Dragon attended Chanel’s 2015 S/S Haute Couture Collection at the Grand Palais, Paris on January 27. He also attended Chanel’s 2015 S/S Collection last fall, and his presence at these shows has cemented his ‘fashionista’ place in the world. G-Dragon wore a tweed jacket from Chanel’s 2014/2015 Cruise [...]
SEOUL, Dec 25 (Korea Bizwire) – New York Magazine named Korean boy band Big Bang’s Taeyang and G-Dragon as some of the best-dressed street-style stars of 2014, YG entertainment said on December 24. In an article about 45 of the most fashionable street-style stars, Taeyang and G-Dragon ranked 42nd. New York Magazine commented on them [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been years since rumors that G-Dragon, member of K-pop idol group Big Bang, is dating Japanese model-actress Kiko Mizuhara have been around. Now a Korean entertainment news outlet revealed on October 8 they are really in love, which led to a plunge in the share price of YG [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea boasts its best packages delivery service, unmatched by any other nation in the world. Korean consumers can receive goods purchased online within just a day and this speedy delivery system is largerly credited to the committed efforts made by the local delivery worker – estimated at about 45,000-strong manpower in the nation. For the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) —LG Uplus announced on August 10 that it is launching a new TV commercial for its “LTE Live Broadcasting” service, which allows users to broadcast video feeds from the smartphone to their living room in real time for the first time in the world. LTE Live Broadcasting is the world’s first [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 14, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A survey found that nine out of ten foreigner respondents said they wanted to date with Korean men and women. This is a sign that the Korean Wave in K-Pop, TV dramas, and computer games is gaining the hearts and minds of foreign audiences. Korea’s major matchmaking [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Big Bang member Taeyang comes back with a new album after an album by another Big Bang member G-Dragon. On November 9 he released a music video of the title song of the album “Ringa Linga.” As it was the first album by Taeyang after three years of hiatus and [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 16 (Korea Bizwire) — It’s already mid-October and there have been unseasonably cold days. Maybe some single males are feeling colder because of the lack of female companions. But they must be aware that there are some things before trying to meet women. According to iStyle 24 (www.istyle24.com), the Internet fashion shopping [...]
G-DRAGON – 삐딱하게 (CROOKED) M/V Seoul, Korea, Sep 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Lately G-Dragon, the famous Korean rapper, released seven songs originally in Part II of his second official album “Coup d’Etat” on online music sites, including the title song “Crooked.” Only two hours after the publication, the song Crooked was ranked No. 1 in [...]