SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA), the K-pop industry’s biggest annual year-end music awards show, will be held with an audience in South Korea next month, its organizer said Tuesday. Mnet, a cable channel that hosts the annual event, said the 2021 MAMA will take place in person at [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court on Wednesday maintained prison terms to two disgraced producers of the popular music channel Mnet for rigging the vote results for a popular audition program. The Seoul High Court sentenced Ahn Joon-young, the producer of the audition program “Produce,” to two years in prison and forfeiture [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl band IZ*ONE will return to the music scene next month, resuming its high-profile music career that was put on hold amid a vote-rigging scandal involving the band’s native audition show last year. “Mnet and the management agencies of IZ*ONE members decided to resume their activities in respect [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The music game show “I Can See Your Voice,” currently being aired by K-pop channel Mnet, will be adapted in at least 10 other countries. The mega-hit TV show, first introduced in 2015, has reached its sixth season in South Korea and has been gaining steady popularity. The show [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ ENM, the operator of K-pop-oriented music channel Mnet, said Monday it will provide all necessary support for K-pop bands IZ*ONE and X1′s resumption of their music careers, issuing an apology for the vote-fixing scandal of its high-profile idol competition show. “We will provide every support possible … so [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean cable channel Mnet said Wednesday that it will launch no new K-pop audition shows in the future amid a widening police probe into a vote-rigging scandal involving its popular competition series “Produce X101.” “We will refrain from producing audition programs,” Kang Ji-hoon from Mnet said in a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BTS picked up nine prizes at this year’s Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) in the Japanese city of Nagoya on Wednesday, monopolizing the biggest Asian music awards event. The septet took home the top three prizes at the 2019 MAMA — Album of the Year, Artist of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A fall from grace by “Produce 101,” South Korea’s most sensational idol audition show to date, is derailing the burgeoning K-pop careers of the show’s winners. Last week, police put in custody An Joon-young, the director of the Mnet cable show, and the program’s chief producer over suspicions of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA), the biggest K-pop award event in Asia, has chosen Japan’s Nagoya as the destination for its 2019 ceremony despite a deepening diplomatic row between Seoul and Tokyo. The 2019 MAMA is scheduled for Dec. 4 at the 30,000-seat Nagoya Dome, the organizer, CJ ENM, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Jin-young, founder of JYP Entertainment and influential music executive, announced that his company will be hiring new employees via a new television show on Mnet, South Korea’s cable television channel. Mnet aired the first episode of “Super Intern” on Thursday. The program was designed to help young South [...]