SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of prominent K-pop singers will visit London to promote the beauty and value of Korean cultural heritage. On Tuesday, the Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation announced its collaboration with KBS to host the ‘Korea On Stage in London’ performance at Wembley Arena on November 8. This event will mark [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Seventeen will put out its 11th EP, “Seventeenth Heaven,” next month, the group’s agency, Pledis Entertainment, said Wednesday. The group also announced the album will be released on Oct. 23 in a teaser video uploaded on social media. The band’s last release was “FML,” its 10th [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The debut solo album by V, a member of K-pop supergroup BTS, has set the biggest first-week sales record for an album by a K-pop soloist with 2.1 million copies sold, data showed Friday. According to the data from Hanteo Chart, a leading local tracker of physical album sales, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — KCON, the annual overseas K-pop concert series by entertainment giant CJ ENM, attracted 140,000 attendees during its three-day stint in Los Angeles. Held from last Friday to Sunday at the LA Convention Center and Crypto.com Arena, KCON LA 2023 drew a daily crowd of at least 40,000 people, according [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — An online magazine created by Spanish K-pop fans is gaining attention K-Visual was first published in 2021 during the pandemic and is managed by 11 K-pop fans, including editor Julie Ann Alfonso, who has a background in fashion. The magazine’s target audience consists of Spanish locals in their teens [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Billboard, the U.S. music chart operator, has decided to exclude artist webstores from the tabulation of digital single charts, raising doubts about whether this decision is aimed at preventing K-pop singers from reaching the top. Billboard recently announced that it would no longer include D2C (Direct-to-consumer) websites in chart [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Artificial intelligence (AI) models, which utilize machine-learned photos of K-pop girl group members collected illicitly, are being extensively distributed online. CivitAI, a platform for sharing generative AI models, hosts numerous AI datasets derived from learned photos of popular K-pop girl groups such as Le Sserafim. The published files consist [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of K-pop artists are being featured on Hollywood movie soundtracks. “Barbie Dreams,” performed by K-pop rookie sensation Fifty Fifty, can be found on the original soundtrack album for the new fantasy comedy film “Barbie,” scheduled for release on July 19. Jimin, a member of the K-pop [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean seniors over 50 years of age, once considered outcasts in the popular music market, are emerging as significant consumers for K-pop. Subscribers to streaming platforms between the ages of 50 and 59 listened to 1.91 billion minutes of music last year, according to a report by the [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Synth pop has recently undergone a resurgence in the K-pop music scene, capitalizing on the retro wave and the global preference for easily accessible music. Synth pop is a sub-genre of pop music that thrived in the late 1970s and 80s. It features electronic instruments, particularly synthesizers but differs [...]