SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Singer and actress Bae Suzy, who debuted in JYP Entertainment’s girl band missA, will terminate her contract with the management agency and is likely to move to another talent agency specializing in acting, according to JYP and other sources on Tuesday. “We announce that Suzy’s exclusive contract with JYP [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — JYP Entertainment, the label of the globally celebrated K-pop girl band TWICE, will team up with Japan’s Sony Music to launch a new girl band composed of Japanese members, the company said Tuesday. “(JYP chief) Park Jin-young will host a press conference for local media outlets at Sony Music’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Jin-young, founder of JYP Entertainment and influential music executive, announced that his company will be hiring new employees via a new television show on Mnet, South Korea’s cable television channel. Mnet aired the first episode of “Super Intern” on Thursday. The program was designed to help young South [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — JYP Entertainment, the South Korean entertainment giant led by music producer Park Jin-young, will be holding auditions on a global scale in the United States and Canada. Park’s company announced yesterday plans to hold “2018 JYP Global Auditions” in four cities in North America. The first audition will be [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Major K-pop label JYP Entertainment has teamed up with the biggest Chinese music-streaming company to launch a band of six Chinese boys in their early teens, the Korean company said Monday.The group Boy Story will debut in China in September through the joint project between JYP’s Chinese branch and [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group TWICE has sold over 2.2 million albums in South Korea since its debut, data showed on Tuesday. The combined number of records sold by the nine-member act stood at 2,222,981 as of Sunday, JYP Entertainment said, citing data from Gaon Chart, South Korea’s main music sales tracker. [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group TWICE plans to release a new Japanese single next month, according to its agency Monday. The group’s third Japanese single, “Wake Me Up,” will be released on May 16 in the neighboring country, JYP Entertainment said. TWICE debuted in Japan in June 2017 with the compilation album [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group GOT7 will embark on a 17-city world tour in May, its management agency said Monday. The seven-piece boy band will launch the world tour, “GOT7 2018 World Tour Eyes On You,” with concerts at Jamsil Gymnasium in Seoul on May 4-6, JYP Entertainment said. The group will [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Bae Suzy, better known by her stage name Suzy, and Lee Min-ho have put an end to their romantic relationship, the actress’ agency confirmed Thursday. JYP Entertainment said the celebrity couple recently split after threeyears of dating. They were confirmed to be an item in March 2015. In September 2015 and August last year, rumors had it that the two parted [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Girl group TWICE’s Japanese single ‘One More Time’, released October 18, has taken the number one spot on Japan’s Oricon Singles Chart with sales of 94,957, over 40,000 more than the runner-up, J-pop boy band Magi!c Prince. TWICE’s single was pre-released on streaming service Line Music on October 13, [...]