SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government said Monday it will focus on attracting more visitors from Southeast Asia as part of its efforts to diversify its tourist portfolio after it suffered a sharp drop in inbound foreigners in the face of a diplomatic row between Seoul and Beijing. The government will [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation boy band BTS has set a world record for Twitter engagements, its agency Big Hit Entertainment said Wednesday. The group has earned the honor, which is published by Guinness World Records, as the music group with the most Twitter engagements. It achieved an average of 152,112 retweets [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The wedding of the “Song-Song Couple” was an international event, with Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi attending and French luxury brand Dior designing the bride’s wedding gown. Through its official Instagram account, Dior showed behind-the-scenes photos of how the white dress composed of satin silk was put together. After sewing [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of foreigners coming to South Korea on private trips chose their destination after experiencing “hallyu,” which refers to the Korean Wave of popular culture, a local poll showed Thursday. The Korea Tourism Organization polled 3,199 people who visited the country with reservations for flights only or [...]
ISTANBUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop five-man group F.T. Island touched down at Istanbul Atatürk Airport on October 28 and was greeted by hundreds of excited fans calling out members’ names and holding placards, a scene Turkish media reported as causing severe congestion at the airport. The individual members and supporting staff emerged from the [...]
Seoul, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite a commonly spoken refrain that roughly translates to “the most pointless worrying in the world is worrying over celebrities”, a National Tax Service (NTS) document revealing the stark gap in earnings of the top 10 percent of entertainers compared to the rest of the field is challenging the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest filming studio Studio Cube will formally open its doors to the public next week after two years of construction, the culture ministry said Friday. Located in the EXPO Science Park in Daejeon, 164 kilometers south of Seoul, the state-run facility is a two-story building with floor [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — An annual global music fair will kick off next week in Seoul to help promote Korean pop music in overseas markets, organizers said Wednesday. K-pop, as it is known, is already becoming more popular among young people in other Asian countries, as well as in Europe and the Americas, with its influence generating interest in other facets of Korean culture. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s cultural content trade surplus, bolstered by the popularity of “hallyu,” or the Korean wave, has decreased significantly in the first six months of 2017 due to China’s economic sanctions over a missile defense system, government data showed Monday. China, South Korea’s biggest overseas market, has retaliated against [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Infidelity, embezzlement and sibling rivalry are common features of Korean dramas, but all three pale in comparison to the gold standard: mistaken identity. In a society with strong feelings about social status and the socioeconomic conditions of one’s birth, the Cinderella story with a slight twist has proven to [...]