SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) - Foreign visitors here will have a chance to learn how to dance just like K-pop idols from professional choreographers, the Seoul municipal government said Thursday. It is part of the city’s efforts to provide foreign tourists with diverse hands-on experiences while being here so as to attract more of them [...]
SEOUL, August 3 (Korea bizwire)- Singer Psy will perform on stage to revitalize the domestic tourism market that has struggled under the onset of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome(MERS). Psy will be making an appearance at the Summer K-POP Festival held at Seoul Plazaon August 4 at 7 p.m. Other stars like the idol group [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean rapper Psy’s “Hangover” was the most-viewed K-pop music video in the United States last year, a U.S. music service said Thursday. Released in June, “Hangover” topped the ranking of the most-viewed K-pop music videos in the U.S. for 2014 recently announced by Billboard magazine based on YouTube [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Infinite has made a “public promise” that they will play the part of “Romeo and Juliet” – Sungyeol acting as Romeo and Dongwoo as Juliet – when their new album will take the No. 1 spot in the music chart. The seven-member K-pop idol group includes Sungkyu, Dongwoo, Woohyun, [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Controversy surrounding Kris, leader of EXO M and who filed a lawsuit against SM Entertainment on Thursday, is apparently causing an escalating stir, as another member from the famous K pop boy group, is criticizing his behavior, arguing Kris’ legal action is “irresponsible.” Exo, formed in 2011 by SM [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – In an unusual move for a K-pop idol star, Kris, who is a Chinese member of boy band EXO-M, filed a lawsuit today against SM Entertainment — none other than the firm he belongs to. Kris reportedly sued SM Entertainment, demanding a cancellation of their exclusive contract that is [...]
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, Korea, April 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Apink, a lovely six-member girl group, successfully came back with their new mini album “Pink Blossom” in late March and the title track of “Mr. Chu” have swept the local music charts throughout the month of April. “Mr. Chu” is a cute and fun pop dance song that [...]
SEOUL & POHANG, Korea, Feb 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The POSCO Music Concert is returning with a more enriched program. Since being held first as the `Millennium New Year`s Eve Concert` in December 1999, leading Korean artists have performed at the POSCO Music Concert, regardless of genre. Marking 156 performances and over 140,000 cumulative attendees, the [...]
NORTH CLARENDON, VT, Feb 09 (Korea Bizwire) – In 2012, Psy’s “Gangnam Style” music video hit YouTube and blew every other video out of the water, to the tune of 1.8 billion views and counting. This phenomenon took the global awareness of K-pop to a whole new level inspiring author Mark James Russell to write K-POP [...]