SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – S.M. Entertainment, one of the largest South Korean entertainment companies, plans to build an ‘SM Cultural Complex’ in Changwon, the capital city of South Gyeongsang Province. Ahn Sang-soo, the mayor of Changwon, held a press conference at Changwon City Hall’s Press Center on Tuesday June 21 to announce the development [...]
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SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Gangnam Style, Psy’s worldwide sensation powered by an iconic horse dance, set numerous world records. The song’s music video is still the most liked and viewed video on YouTube. But most of all, Gangnam Style was the first K-pop song, ever, to attract global attention. Ironically, however, 38-year-old Psy is [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – May 10 was the 10-year anniversary of South Korean actor Lee Min-ho’s debut. To mark the occasion, Lee’s fan clubs organized various events all over the world. The fans’ self-made celebration videos were played in public places, ads and posters were hung on subways and buses, and fans uploaded pictures [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Every year, tens of thousands of tourists from home and abroad surge to a spring festival on Jindo Island, off South Korea’s southwestern tip, to witness the natural marvel of parting seawater. The tidal difference causes the seawater to split around this time of year, earning the phenomenon the [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has canceled the licenses of 68 tour operators that lure Chinese travelers with cheap, low-quality packages or hire unqualified guides to improve the tourism industry’s competitiveness, the culture ministry said Monday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has conducted reviews on 170 tour agencies specializing in Chinese [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – American talk show host Conan O’Brien said Sunday he has sung on a new track produced by the prolific South Korean musician Park Jin-young. O’Brien shared a photo of him with Park, Korean-American actor Steven Yeun, the South Korean girl group TWICE and backup dancers on Instagram with the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea has included songs by girl groups in anti-North Korea broadcasts initiated earlier on Friday along the inter-Korean border, sources in the South Korean defense ministry said. The playlist includes Girlfriend’s “Me Gustas Tu,” a dance track, and A-Pink’s “Let Us Just Love,” the theme song for the 2011 [...]
CHANGWON, Oct. 30 (Yonhap) – Dozens of young people from 14 countries will compete in their ability to reproduce or reinvent K-pop acts in later Friday, organizers said. Only 57 out of some 12,000 contestants made it to the K-pop World Festival finals set to start at 7 p.m. at the Changwon Sports Park in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean boy band ‘BTS’ has received a ‘World Wide Act’ award at the 2015 MTV Europe Music Awards. The World Wide Act awards are given to the ‘most noticeable’ artists in different territories around the world. MTV announced that BTS was selected as the most noticeable artist in Korea [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean singer and entertainer PSY and professor Seo Gyeong-duk from Sungshin Women’s University have started to distribute K-Pop brochures at American universities. The brochures, sensibly made out of eco-friendly materials, contain various information about K-Pop – the definition, history, secret to popularity, culture and ‘sing alongs’ (when the audience [...]