SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Legendary diva Lee Mi-ja will be awarded the highest national cultural merit for her contribution to the development of Korean pop culture, the government said Friday. Lee was chosen as the recipient of the Geumgwan Order of Cultural Merit, the highest class of South Korean cultural decoration, the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The top 1 percent of South Korean singers in terms of income earned an average of 4.62 billion won (US$3.4 million) per person in 2021, with their aggregate income accounting for nearly 70 percent of that earned by all singers in the country that year, data showed Saturday. A [...]
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 [...]