SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — In collaboration with an affiliate of American entertainment giant Universal Music Group, South Korea’s biggest music label SM Entertainment will unveil a new boy band in October that will bring together highly accomplished artists under its wing. Under the joint project with the U.S.-based Capitol Music Group (CMG), home [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Mnet Asian Music Awards, or MAMA, the biggest annual K-pop awards series held outside of South Korea, is reconsidering Japan and Hong Kong as its destinations for this year’s event, according to the event’s organizer. Having been among the biggest consumers of K-pop outside of Korea, Japan and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — An unprecedentedly large number of high-profile K-pop concerts and album releases are set to hit Japan from August onward as K-pop is enjoying a heyday in the neighboring country, but an accelerating trade row between Korea and Japan is feared to pose uncertainty over their future. Pushing its diplomatic [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Two top-tier K-pop stars, Jihyo of girl band TWICE and solo artist Kang Daniel, confirmed Monday that they are in a romantic relationship. Early Monday, a news outlet released photos of the two stars on a date near Kang Daniel’s home in Hannam-dong in central Seoul. Within a few [...]
INCHEON, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The municipality of Incheon, west of Seoul, is planning to build a massive tourist complex in a hilly coastal area just west of Incheon International Airport after designating it as a free economic zone, officials said Friday. According to the Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority, the new tourist complex, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Explosive K-pop girl band ITZY dropped Monday its first EP whose title track is a collaboration among multiple high-profile K-pop composers. The record, “IT’z ICY,” is the four-member band’s first EP since its debut in February with two singles, including “Dalla Dalla.” “Dalla Dalla” set a record as a [...]
SEJONG, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — At a trade fair exhibiting Korean goods in Bangkok last month, whenever a customer came to the small booth where he was promoting beauty products, Jake Choi would use his smartphone to show them a video clip as part of his sales pitch. The three-minute video includes a scene [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Breaking out of a long legal battle with his former management agency, Kang Daniel, a pivotal member of the now-defunct boy band Wanna One, hit the summer music scene Thursday with his first solo album “Color On Me.” Kang wrote the lyrics for the four out of the total [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Kangin, a scandal-ridden member of long-running K-pop boy band Super Junior, said Thursday he will leave the team, ending his 14-year membership. The 34-year-old, whose real name is Kim Young-woon, broke the news on his Instagram account. “I decided to leave behind the title, Super Junior, with which I [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — São Paulo’s Expo Center Norte hosted the ‘Brasil Hallyu Expo 2019’ on Saturday (local time), offering attendees the chance to experience Hallyu (the Korean wave) and everything it has to offer. The year 2019 marks the third anniversary of the two-day expo, which was first held in 2017 with [...]