SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Seoul will host a music concert next week, staging K-pop stars as well as popular singers from China, Japan and Southeast Asian countries, according to the city government Friday. Popular South Korean boy bands CNBLUE and GOT7 will feature prominently in the One Asia Seoul Mega [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government has announced that they will manage a program where foreign visitors can learn the latest K-pop dances. Participants will tour the SM Town studio in Samseong-dong for 30 minutes, and learn the latest K-pop moves from a professional choreographer for 60 minutes. According to a survey conducted [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will host a Korean music festival in London next month to enhance the global interest in Korean music initially sparked by the popularity of K-pop, the government said Thursday. The second edition of the “K-Music Festival” will be held from Sept. 1-30 in several performance halls in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean singer CL, who is set to make her U.S. debut this fall, has been named one of the top 10 must-know artists by Rolling Stone magazine. The list of “10 New Artists You Must Know” was revealed online Monday, local time, with the 24-year-old sharing space with [...]
“Korean culture has been extremely influential all over the world, gaining fans not just in Europe but also in South America, the Middle East and even parts of Africa. I think its influence will continue to grow.” “While music videos have been vanishing in Europe due to their low return on investment, K-pop has persistently [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver, South Korea’s top Internet portal operator, rolled out a real-time video streaming app on Friday that features behind-the-scenes stories of popular K-pop artists, as it seeks to expand its global presence with the new mobile media platform. Dubbed V, the app is designed to provide footage of top Korean singers [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Many K-pop stars come and go, with only a handful staying on the scene in the long run. Super Junior is among the rare few who debuted a decade ago and still has a large following at home and in other Asian countries. The band released “Devil,” a special album [...]
Seoul, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Billboard is taking notice of song-writer Brave Brothers’ (Kang Dong-chul, 36) entrance into the American market. In an article posted on June 11, titled ‘YG & Krazie Bone Break International Borders With Brave Brothers Produced ‘Cash Money”, Billboard speaks highly of Brave Brothers as ‘one of the best K-pop producers’. They [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Girls’ Generation, one of the top South Korean girl groups, swept various music charts at home and other Asian countries Wednesday after making a long-awaited return to the music scene. The album’s title piece “Party” topped eight Korean music services, including Genie, Melon and Mnet, as of 9 a.m. [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group Sistar ranked No. 1 on major local music charts for the eighth consecutive day Monday with its new single “Shake It.” Released a week ago, “Shake It” has since been on top of the real-time K-pop chart of Melon, an online music service that dominates 60 percent of [...]