SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop group Wonder Girls will make a comeback as a pop band after five years as a dance group with a new album in early August, its management agency said Thursday. “Yeeun will play keyboard, Herim guitar, Yoobin drum and Seonmi base guitar,” JYP Entertainment said. “The members have been practicing for [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – “It is one of my principles to say farewell with a smile. I think I should leave you with smiles to come back again. I already have lots of memories in my life. It (military service) will be another cool memory in my life,” said TVXQ’s U-know Yunho. [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — ABC News has zoomed in on contributing factors to K-pop’s success and shed light on a major South Korean entertainment agency’s system for training wannabe idol stars. “The young ones with talent and potential are chosen by big entertainment agencies like S.M. Entertainment known for its intense training program [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Jeollabuk-do Provincial Government is set to develop a sound industry cluster where sound production, speech recognition and musicology research can have a solid ground. As the Korean music industry imports virtually all of its sound producing techniques and related software, even though K-Pop is growing popular worldwide, the provincial [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A K-pop festival hosted by South Korea’s leading content and media company CJ E&M will expand to the east coast of the U.S. from the west coast this summer, the company said Tuesday. KCON launched in 2012 and has quickly developed to be North America’s largest annual Korean cultural festival that [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Riding Hallyu, or the Korean Wave, cosmetics products have developed into strong moneymaking export items as they set records for exports and trade surplus last month. According to the Korea Customs Service, the value of cosmetics exports in March was US$277.5 million, the largest amount since the office began [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy band EXO ranked 90th on the Billboard 200 albums chart with its latest album, setting a new record as the highest-charting K-pop album by a male act. Released on March 30, EXO’s second full-length album “Exodus” landed at No. 90 on the Billboard 200, selling 6,000 copies in the [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — EXO‘s Chinese member Ray will be fully backed by SM Entertainment for his solo career in China, as the company has established an agency solely dedicated to the artist’s work, according to an announcement on April 8. The agency, named Ray Workshop, will be operated under a contract between [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Four-member K-pop girl Group “miss A” will return with its seventh project album “Colors” on March 30, according to JYP Entertainment. JYP, miss A’s talent agency, released teaser images of the new sexy concept album on its SNS including Facebook and Twitter on March 19. Miss A’s comeback took [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The popular K-pop boy band EXO will release its second full-length album “Exodus” this week, its management said Thursday. The new album, the first by the group since “Overdose” in December, is scheduled to hit the market on Friday, S.M. Entertainment said. Some of the tracks on the new album were unveiled [...]