SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — JYP Entertainment, the South Korean entertainment giant led by music producer Park Jin-young, will be holding auditions on a global scale in the United States and Canada. Park’s company announced yesterday plans to hold “2018 JYP Global Auditions” in four cities in North America. The first audition will be [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video of K-pop girl band BLACKPINK’s “DDU-DU DDU-DU” has surpassed the threshold of 300 million YouTube views just two months after its release. The feat was achieved on Thursday, 68 days after the release of the song and its umbrella album, “Square Up,” setting the record the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Conventionally known as uncharted territory when it comes to K-pop, India’s interest in the music genre is said to be growing and local newspapers and magazines have been churning out features on Korean pop music in light of the Korean Wave that is headed that way. The Economic Times, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Long-running boy band g.o.d will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut next year with a series of celebratory projects, including the release of a new album, their management agency said Monday. The quintet debuted in 1999 and became a household name in the K-pop scene in the early [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Jo Kwon, a member of K-pop boy band 2AM, bade farewell to his fans Monday as he joined the armed forces for the nearly two years of mandatory military service. The 29-year-old was to enter a military boot camp in Gangwon Province on Monday to start off the military [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop diva HyunA has confirmed that she has been dating a member of her project group for two years. HyunA and E’Dawn, one of the two male members of the K-pop trio Triple H, first met three years ago, and they became close in 2015 while they collaborated for [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — KCON, the annual global festival of the Korean Wave, or the global popularity of Korean pop culture, will expand into Thailand this year to tap into the broader Southeast Asian region with 650 million people, the festival’s organizer said Thursday. The KCON 2018 Thailand will open Sept. 29 for [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The K-pop boy band BTS will hold a photo and video exhibition in Seoul marking the fifth anniversary of its debut, its agency Big Hit Entertainment said Monday. BTS will showcase photos showing them working on albums, photos taken by the seven members themselves and video clips featuring various [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — G-Dragon, leader of the K-pop boy band BIGBANG, became the subject of a big controversy Monday over using a one-bed room at a local hospital where he has been hospitalized for treating his ankle while in the military. Earlier in the day, an online media company reported that the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Popular online shopping mall 11Street’s platform that allows overseas individuals to make purchases from South Korean vendors revealed that Taiwanese shoppers had topped the list of foreign buyers who purchased K-pop idol-related goods. 11Street revealed today that the largest percentage of its online overseas buyers came from Taiwan, accounting [...]