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 [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean artists under the SM Entertainment label held a huge joint concert in Paris, France in 2011. Although the concert was a watershed moment for K-pop music in general, signaling for the first time the rise of K-pop in Europe, French critics were less than impressed. An excerpt from [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Major K-pop label JYP Entertainment has teamed up with the biggest Chinese music-streaming company to launch a band of six Chinese boys in their early teens, the Korean company said Monday.The group Boy Story will debut in China in September through the joint project between JYP’s Chinese branch and [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — At a press conference last December, Bang Si-hyuk, CEO of Big Hit Entertainment, the company that manages the K-pop boy band sensation BTS, said that he hoped the group would serve “as a model [for other K-pop groups] and not just end as a mere happening.” Bang’s statement reflected [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — When the members of K-pop boyband BTS were asked why they make music in an interview last January, they wanted to bring up the topic of self-love and happiness. BTS, which stands for “bangtan” boys, (bangtan in Korean means bullet-proof) earned their first number one album on the Billboard [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — One of the headliners at the DMZ Peace Train Music Festival to be held next month at the demilitarized zone in Gangwon Province is Thai singer-songwriter Phum Viphurit. Although some may regard this as a bold invite, a growing number of musicians from neighboring Asian countries have been holding [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that the British think South Korea’s tourism industry has great potential. Although awareness of the South Korean nation by the general public in U.K. is low, younger Brits have a favorable image of South Korea thanks to the nation’s high-tech industries and K-pop. This [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Mubeat, a new K-pop video streaming service, has opened its service in Brazil, according to the company Friday. The app developed by Vlending, a joint entertainment venture formed by MBC and SBS Contents Hub, started its service in the South American country this month, the company announced. The service [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS topped Amazon’s album pre-order list, its agency said Thursday. Big Hit Entertainment said “Love Yourself: Tear,” the K-pop sensation’s upcoming full-length album, shot to No. 1 on Amazon’s CDs & Vinyl Best Sellers list in the U.S., a day after the pre-order became available on [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group TWICE has sold over 2.2 million albums in South Korea since its debut, data showed on Tuesday. The combined number of records sold by the nine-member act stood at 2,222,981 as of Sunday, JYP Entertainment said, citing data from Gaon Chart, South Korea’s main music sales tracker. [...]