SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – BLACKPINK, one of K-pop’s biggest next-generation idol groups, plans to debut in Japan this summer, its agency said Wednesday. YG Entertainment, which represents the four-member team, said the band is scheduled to hold a debut showcase at the Budokan in Tokyo on July 20 and release a Japanese album [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Psy, the 2012 global pop sensation who released “Gangnam Style,” said on Wednesday he is really keyed up hours before the release of his eighth studio album. “Among many things I do on Earth, standing on stage is the most not nervous, but I’m really nervous at this place [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Even before the term “K-pop” entered the global pop culture lexicon in the mid 2000s, South Korea did have a big and vibrant pop music scene. During the ’80s and ’90s, Korean pop music — then, and still, commonly referred to as “gayo” at home — was influenced heavily [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — As much as K-pop is increasingly winning the hearts and minds of fans around the world, the scene also has had its fair share of criticism. One of the biggest gripes with K-pop has been the industry’s machine-like idol production system, which has, more often than not, involved scouting [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Over the past few years, South Korean pop music, or K-pop, as a whole has grown into a legitimate cultural force to be reckoned with. And while the scene has moved and evolved at lightning pace, some also began to look back and wonder: what makes K-pop K-pop? EXP [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — China has been expanding its own entertainment industry while banning imports of South Korean cultural content over a missile row, industry data showed Wednesday. Beijing has imposed economic sanctions on South Korea in recent months as Seoul is pushing ahead with the installment of the U.S. Terminal Altitude Area [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The global popularity of hallyu (the Korean Wave) content is gradually waning. Based on an online survey of 7,200 consumers from 15 countries in six continents (from October to December 2016), Monday’s report by the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange showed that only 31 percent of the respondents had [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The final round of an Italian K-pop competition was held at an exhibition center in Rome on Saturday. As part of Romics, one of the country’s biggest comic fairs, fourteen group and individual talents who passed the preliminary rounds showed off their moves for the final time to K-pop [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ E&M, South Korea’s leading entertainment and media content company, said Monday it will open new channels exclusively for airing “hallyu” content in Malaysia, Vietnam and Hong Kong. The company said it will launch a Korean movie channel “tvN Movies” in Malaysia and “TV Blue,” a channel for providing [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean boy band BTS, also known as Bangtan Boys, has wrapped up the South American leg of its world tour with success, selling more than 40,000 tickets in the region, according to its agency Tuesday. According to Big Hit Entertainment, which represents BTS, the team performed in front [...]