SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — KCON, a major annual festival of K-pop and Korean culture, will return to South Korea, Japan and the United States in person this year after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers said Thursday. CJ ENM, a leading entertainment and media company in South Korea, said the [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — New girl group Ive will release its second single album “Love Dive” on April 5, the group’s agency Starship Entertainment said Tuesday. The K-pop agency posted a teaser image about the upcoming record on social media. It will mark the first release from the six-piece group since its debut [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group Oh My Girl will release its first full-length album in three years in late March, the group’s agency said Monday. “Real Love,” the second studio album from the group, will drop at 6 p.m. on March 28, WM Entertainment said. It marks the group’s first full [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The booming K-pop market has led to a significant sales boost of related products. Sales of cheering props, however, have dwindled due to the ongoing pandemic. Ktown4u.com, an online shopping mall that specializes in sales of CDs of K-pop groups and their related goods, reported that sales of drama [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop rookie TREASURE appeared all set Tuesday to charge toward the top of the local music scene with its upcoming album brimming with youthfulness and vigor, just like the title of its lead song, “Jikjin,” which means “going straight forward.” “We’re happy because we have finally come to be [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group Apink on Monday will release a special album celebrating the 10th anniversary since its debut, the group’s management agency said. The album titled “Horn” will be the first release from the six-member group since “Look” in April 2020. The lead single “Dilemma” is a dance number [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop powerhouse JYP Entertainment has expanded its strategic partnership with U.S. Republic Records to launch more of its artists onto the world music scene. Republic Records, one of the biggest American record labels owned by Universal Music Group, on Thursday (U.S. time) announced the expansion of the alliance with [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — As the K-pop market continues to expand, music albums are taking on a greater variety of shapes and sizes. Artists in recent years release an average of two or three types of music albums, along with so-called ‘jewel case’ albums, which are CDs packed into a transparent plastic cases [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Boy group BIGBANG will come back to the K-pop scene this spring after four years of hiatus due to the members’ mandatory military duties, the group’s management agency said Monday. “BIGBANG will drop a new song in the coming spring,” YG Entertainment said in a press release. “The group [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Three members of K-pop boy band iKON have tested positive for the coronavirus, their agency said Sunday. Kim Jin-hwan, Song Yun-heong and Kim Dong-hyuk were confirmed to have been infected with COVID-19 after showing cold symptoms the previous day, according to YG Entertainment. The other three members — Bobby, [...]