SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul city government is aggressively studying ways to develop its northern outskirts into the country’s pop music mecca by establishing various concert halls, a practical music school and encouraging pop musicians to move into the area, a city official said Thursday. “We (Seoul city) have placed an order [...]
ROME, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A local preliminary for the 2016 K-pop World Festival took place in Milan, Italy, organizers said on Sunday (local time). A total of 13 teams competed in the event at Elfo Puccini Theater in Milan on Saturday to secure a ticket to perform in the main event scheduled to [...]
NEW DELHI, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A month-long ‘K-Pop Contest’ that is being held in eight cities across India has finally taken off. The event was organized by the Korean Cultural Centre India (KCCI) for the fifth time since 2012. A total of 200 teams, with 434 contestants, will compete this year in two [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul is hosting a K-pop dance festival this week amid the rising popularity of Korean pop culture worldwide, the metropolitan city government said Thursday. The five-day 2016 K-pop Cover Dance Festival, which kicked off Wednesday, has gathered some 13 teams from nine countries who made it to the semi-finals [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The popular K-pop boy group EXO will release its third studio album next month, the group’s agency said Tuesday. It will be the first album by the act in six months since “Sing For You,” a winter-seasonal special album came out in December. S.M. Entertainment said the album will drop [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean music company YG Entertainment on Friday said it has attracted 100 billion won (US$85 million) in investment from the Chinese online giant Tencent and mobile ticketing service, Beijing Weiying Technology Co. YG said its CEO Yang Min-suk will sign an investment deal with Suman Wang, who is in [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – S.M. Entertainment, the country’s largest talent agency, and a private institute will found an alternative international school for teenagers dreaming of becoming K-pop stars, the companies said Friday. S.M. signed a memorandum of understanding with Haneul Education Co. to open what is tentatively called the “K-pop international school” in [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea on Friday said it has started the construction of a “hallyu” park in line with its move to establish sustainable attractions to lure Asian tourists. K-Culture Valley, a cluster of various cultural facilities to be located in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, aims to promote the hallyu wave, which [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ E&M, South Korea’s leading entertainment and media company, said Sunday it will start a joint venture with a Thai cable channel operator to further capitalize on the global popularity of Korean pop culture, known here as “hallyu.” The entertainment arm of the South Korean conglomerate CJ Group said [...]