SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Girl group TWICE will put out a new Japanese-language single album titled “Candy Pop” on Feb. 7, its agency said Friday. It will be the group’s first album of 2018, JYP Entertainment said. TWICE debuted in Japan on June 28 with the compilation album “#TWICE.” It was certified “platinum” [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – It’s not uncommon to see pictures of K-pop idols with written messages occupying advertisement spaces in public places, particularly in South Korean subway stations. As typical messages accompanying the advertisements often include ‘Thank you for having been born,’ or ‘Happy Birthday’ followed by the name of an idol star, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation boy band BTS has set a world record for Twitter engagements, its agency Big Hit Entertainment said Wednesday. The group has earned the honor, which is published by Guinness World Records, as the music group with the most Twitter engagements. It achieved an average of 152,112 retweets [...]
ISTANBUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop five-man group F.T. Island touched down at Istanbul Atatürk Airport on October 28 and was greeted by hundreds of excited fans calling out members’ names and holding placards, a scene Turkish media reported as causing severe congestion at the airport. The individual members and supporting staff emerged from the [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Busan One Asia Festival (BOF) kicked off with a bang yesterday, as K-Pop legends Sechs Kies and up and coming powerhouses GFriend and Black Pink performed during the opening ceremonies held at the Busan Asiad Main Stadium. Lasting until the end of the month, the BOF performances will [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of culture content and leisure service-related goods posted double-digit growth in the first seven months of the year on the back of the popularity of K-pop, government data showed Sunday. According to the data compiled by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, exports of the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Girl group TWICE’s Japanese single ‘One More Time’, released October 18, has taken the number one spot on Japan’s Oricon Singles Chart with sales of 94,957, over 40,000 more than the runner-up, J-pop boy band Magi!c Prince. TWICE’s single was pre-released on streaming service Line Music on October 13, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Singer and actress Im Yoon-ah, better known as Yoona from Girls’ Generation, will replace actress Kim Ha-neul as a co-host of the opening ceremony for this year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), organizers said Tuesday. The BIFF organizers said that Kim recently gave notice that she cannot attend the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Girl group April on Wednesday jumped into the early fall music chart race with its fourth EP album, backed by a pulsating-yet-innocent new dance track titled “Hold My Hand.” “After first listening to the song I thought this is it. I knew that this had to be the lead song,” leader Chaekyung explained to reporters [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — An annual global music fair will kick off next week in Seoul to help promote Korean pop music in overseas markets, organizers said Wednesday. K-pop, as it is known, is already becoming more popular among young people in other Asian countries, as well as in Europe and the Americas, with its influence generating interest in other facets of Korean culture. [...]