SEOUL, Mar. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Choi Seo-hyun, a big fan of BTS, recently bought a card bearing a photo of band member Jungkook via Twitter. The card was from the boy band’s latest album, “Love Yourself: Answer,” which comes with a random photo of one of the seven members. “It’s a probability of one [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Girl group Mamamoo will return to the K-pop scene with a new album next month, its agency said Thursday. The four-member act’s new EP, the title of which has yet to be revealed, is scheduled to be unveiled on March 14. “The upcoming album will be the finale of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Twitter Inc. said Friday that 5.3 billion tweets were created last year globally about K-pop. “Twitter continues to show that it’s the best place to find out what’s happening with K-pop and to talk about it with K-pop fans around the world,” the U.S. microblogging website said. Some of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl band Red Velvet wrapped up its tour of five American cities and will set out on a tour of Canadian cities, the band’s management agency said Tuesday. The five-piece girl group’s latest United States tour started in Los Angeles in the first week of February. The band [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Sensational K-pop girl band BLACKPINK has debuted on U.S. television, performing live on CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the band’s management agency said Tuesday. The four-piece girl band staged live their latest, wildly successful song, “Ddu-Du Ddu-Du” on the late night CBS show on Monday (U.S. time) [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A wave of new K-pop boy bands is poised to hit the music scene this year after the sensational success of K-pop boy band BTS proved the high potential of the market for boy groups, according to music labels on Sunday. BTS stormed into global consciousness with their two [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Bang Si-hyuk, the producer of the K-pop phenomenon BTS, made Billboard’s list of “25 Top Innovators” who are “Music’s New Power Generation,” Billboard said on its website on Friday. “The K-populist: BTS — the seven-man K-pop band that South Korean songwriter-producer-executive Bang assembled in 2010 — catapulted into Western-pop [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A student-run academic course has been launched at the University of California, Berkeley, to explore the phenomenal success of K-pop boy band BTS and its growing global impact, the school’s website showed Thursday. The 2-unit course, “Next Generation Leaders: BTS,” opened as part of the UC Berkeley’s Democratic Education [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop stars including boy band iKon and solo artist Chungha, will perform for a K-pop showcase during the U.S. annual music festival South by Southwest (SXSW), the American event’s website showed Thursday. “(The Korea Creative Content Agency) is back for their 7th annual SXSW Music Festival showcase,” the website [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean entertainment companies are facing a dilemma as China, under the ‘One-China Policy’, has begun to take issue with foreign companies using terminology that seems to uphold Taiwan’s independence. With an increasing number of idols of Taiwanese nationality making a debut in South Korea, many companies are careful [...]