SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and Korea Creative Content Agency sponsored a K-pop event “Music Matters” in the night of May 23 held at Clarke Quay, Singapore, in which more than 2,000 visitors and 500 music industry people from across the world gathered. The “K-pop Night out [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyosung of K-pop girl group Secret is going solo with her new single album “Top Secret” which was released on May 12. Especially, the music video of the album’s title track “Good-night Kiss” is making a big hit. Showing off her glamorous figure and alluring dance moves, Hyosung won [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – It is unusual that members of K-pop groups are acting in Wheesung’s new music video. Girls Day’s Yura and Tin Top’s CAP appear as the main actor and actress in the music video, “Night and Day,” the title track of Wheesung new album “The Best Man.” The music video [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Representing the old and new idol groups, GOD and EXO play a tug-of-war to rule the K-pop charts. Just after one day when the “new” idol group EXO released the tracks in its second mini album “Overdose” which took the No. 1 place in 10 music streaming sites on [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop group EXO set highest record of preorders with its new mini album “Overdose.” Released on May 7, EXO’s new album secured 658,710 copies of preorders (Korean version 372,160 copies and Chinese version 286,550 copies) and set record in the volume of preorders in mini album history. Upon releasing [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop fans used to give their beloved stars fan letters and stuffed toys, but nowadays they give “the woods.” On May 6, Tree Planet, a social enterprise which plants trees, announced that a forest has been created in Gangnam to be named after Baekhyun, a member of K-pop boy [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) – “Crush,” the second album of Korea’s quartet girl group 2NE1 ranked 61st on Billboard album chart, the highest ever score in the K-Pop history. 2NE1 also secured 22 percent of popularity rating in the “most popular K-Pop Girl Group” survey conducted by the “Girl Group Week” magazine. Billboard introduced “Come Back [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 14, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A survey found that nine out of ten foreigner respondents said they wanted to date with Korean men and women. This is a sign that the Korean Wave in K-Pop, TV dramas, and computer games is gaining the hearts and minds of foreign audiences. Korea’s major matchmaking [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Have you ever seen a bunch of “love locks” in Seoul’s N Tower that were hung and locked by so many couples who want their love last forever? Or seen a café on a Han River bridge featured on a drama where a couple shared their lovely eye contacts? [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Among Korean teenagers, a game called celebrity game is a big hit, kind of a tool for the youths to escape from their dry and harsh realities, reported Hankooki.com, Hankook Daily newspaper’s online edition. According to the report, the role playing game assuming themselves as famous K-pop celebs through [...]