SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Wave is set to make a splash in the inland areas of China. Omgworld, a Korean retail business consulting company, plans to advance into Hohhot, the capital city of China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, by distributing K-wave related products jointly with a local Chinese department store. Omgworld announced [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – A new girl group armed with Korean traditional music is gaining people’s attention as the next leader to boost the Korean Wave. The girl group, Sorea Band, which performed as a special guest at a K-wave conference on July 1 jointly held by KBS and the Korean Society for Journalism [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – AOA, a seven member K-pop girl group, released its new song and music video “Short Hair” on June 19. The members transformed themselves as cheerleaders and showed their cute and sexy appearance. Especially in the music video, they showed of three kinds of dances called “some dances.” Those are [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – When you travel overseas, you often feel as if you are an Alice in wonderland. Sometimes that could be a nice experience but some other times it may be confusing and terrifying. What if you could get help from a local friend who knows her way around the [...]
![[Feature] Forest Donations: A New Model of Star Supporting by Fans](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/20130417220527_1028119319-1.jpg "[Feature] Forest Donations: A New Model of Star Supporting by Fans")
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been years since the so-called Korean Wave swept the world. These days it is not so hard to find fans in Korea or any place in the world cheer passionately for a Korean idol star. Sometimes the lengths the fans go to in expressing their love for the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 17, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism have collaborated with the Korea Copyright Commission and 12 other organizations to launch “Good Copyright” campaign. The campaign begins in earnest with a proclamation ceremony at KT Olleh Square in downtown Seoul on April 17. The campaign is a successor [...]
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. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – As there still exist illegally operating call vans exploiting foreign tourists, the Seoul Metropolitan City Government lifted a whip, warning them it would revoke their business licenses. A call van is a six-seater cargo taxi on which any passenger with baggage weighing more than 20 kg can take and [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 07 (Korea Bizwire) - A trade show to promote Korean Wave goods has been held in London. At the city’s Old Billingsgate Exhibition Center, the Korea Brand & Entertainment Expo 2013 was open for three days between November 4 and 6. Hosted by the Korea Creative Contents Agency and the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency [...]
G-DRAGON – 삐딱하게 (CROOKED) M/V Seoul, Korea, Sep 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Lately G-Dragon, the famous Korean rapper, released seven songs originally in Part II of his second official album “Coup d’Etat” on online music sites, including the title song “Crooked.” Only two hours after the publication, the song Crooked was ranked No. 1 in [...]