SEOUL/LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — KCON, the world’s largest Korean pop music and culture convention launched, has attracted more than 1 million fans over the past eight years, its organizer said Monday. According to CJ ENM, the organizer of KCON, the convention’s cumulative audience reached 1,069,000 over the weekend when the Korean wave, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — KCON, the annual global festival of the Korean Wave, or the global popularity of Korean pop culture, will expand into Thailand this year to tap into the broader Southeast Asian region with 650 million people, the festival’s organizer said Thursday. The KCON 2018 Thailand will open Sept. 29 for [...]
NEW YORK, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – KCON, a global K-pop festival that brings music stars to overseas fans, took place over the weekend in Newark, New Jersey. The two-day event at the Prudential Center, attended by some 53,000 fans, was divided into two parts — K-pop concerts and outdoor convention programs. The event brought [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Japanese leg of this year’s KCON, an annual global Korean pop music and culture convention, drew a crowd of some 68,000 during its three-day run, organizers said Monday. The three-day event held at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba, east of Tokyo, from Friday to Sunday was attended by a combined audience of 68,000, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan has been designated the first country to host South Korea’s largest convention of Korean pop music and culture for this year, organizers said Monday. First launched in Irvine, California, in 2012, KCON is hosted by CJ E&M and held in multiple countries throughout the world. Attending the event [...]
SYDNEY, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean pop culture festival KCON was held at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia over the weekend, attracting over 20,000 Oceanian fans. The event, which has been organized by South Korean entertainment company CJ E&M since 2012, marked its sixth anniversary this year, showcasing the latest K-pop, drama series [...]
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — KCON, a global Korean pop music and culture convention, wrapped up its Los Angeles event Sunday, bringing together tens of thousands of fans of cutting-edge South Korean musicians, fashion and other Korean-related cultural content. A crowd of 80,000 gathered at the three-day KCON LA 2017 held from Friday [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – “It took me 14 hours to get to L.A.,” said 17-year-old Conny, who flew all the way from her home in Argentina for the annual K-pop convention KCON that took place in Los Angeles last weekend. The popularity of Korean culture has grown considerably in South America over the past [...]
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s CJ Group vowed Monday to boost global sales of its two entertainment units by capitalizing on the growing popularity of the Korean Wave. Entertainment giant CJ E&M and South Korea’s largest cinema chain, CJ CGV, saw their combined global sales reach 424.9 billion won (US$383 million) [...]
NEW YORK, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Thousands of fans flocked to KCON New York over the weekend to experience “hallyu,” or K-pop, K-dramas and K-culture trends, which is expanding its sprawling fan base all over the world. The convention in Newark, New Jersey, was the second KCON in the greater New York City area [...]