SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest carmaker, said Wednesday its first dedicated electric light commercial vehicle (eLCV), the PV5 Cargo, has set a Guinness World Records title for driving range. The PV5 Cargo traveled 693.38 kilometers on a single charge while carrying its maximum payload of 665 kilograms, the company [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung SDI Co. said Thursday an electric vehicle (EV) equipped with its batteries has set a world record for the longest distance driven on a single charge. The Lucid Air Grand Touring, an EV produced by U.S. automotive company Lucid Group Inc., traveled 1,205 kilometers from Switzerland to Germany, [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — NewJeans has broken a Guinness World Record as a K-pop act by securing 1 billion streams the fastest with its songs on Spotify, the group’s agency said Tuesday. The quartet hit the milestone Monday, only 219 days after it made its debut in July 2022, ADOR said, quoting data [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has set a Guinness world record for the most-viewed music channel on YouTube, the group’s agency said Tuesday. The band’s official YouTube channel surpassed 30 billion views Monday last week, outstripping the channel of Justin Bieber, YG Entertainment said. It took BLACKPINK’s channel about six [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK was inscribed on the Guinness World Records as the most-streamed girl group on Spotify in the world, the group’s agency said Saturday. The band’s songs had garnered 8.88 billion streams as of March 3, breaking the previous record of 8.4 billion streams set by the [...]