SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Global K-pop dynamite BTS is set to hold “Bang Bang Con 21,” the latest in a series of streaming events for fans amid the ongoing pandemic, its management agency said Monday. The online event will be streamed on the seven-piece act’s official YouTube channel Bangtan TV starting at 3 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA), the K-pop industry’s biggest annual year-end music awards show, will be held virtually in South Korea in December with no audience, its organizer said Monday. CJ ENM, which hosts the annual event, said the 2020 MAMA will be held online on Dec. 6 [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. will stage its own event to introduce the company’s new products in the upcoming months after it decided to skip the largest consumer electronics show in Europe. Samsung said it will host an online event, titled “Life Unstoppable,” on Sept. 2, to unveil its latest innovations [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. will unveil five new products at its upcoming launch event, the company’s mobile business chief said, with a focus on delivering new experiences. In an editorial posted on the company’s website on Monday, Roh Tae-moon, who heads Samsung’s mobile communications business, said the South Korean tech [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s online edition of KCON, a major K-pop and Korean culture festival series held overseas every year, attracted 4 million viewers, far more than the combined number of visitors to the festival in the past eight years, according to its organizer Monday. Under this year’s banner theme “KCON:TACT [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — KCON, a major K-pop and Korean culture festival series held overseas every year, will be held partly online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, its organizer announced Thursday. Under this year’s banner theme “KCON:TACT 2020 Summer,” KCON will be streamed on June 20-26 through the channel “M-net K-POP” on YouTube, [...]