SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Preorder sales for Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest foldable smartphone, the Galaxy Z Fold 2, are estimated to be around 60,000 units in South Korea, industry sources said Monday. So far, local mobile carriers have received 50,000 Galaxy Z Fold 2 preorders since they started early sales of the device [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK is poised to potentially make the biggest South Korean girl group album debut next month, with retail pre-orders for its inaugural studio record reaching 800,000 units worldwide, according to the band’s agency Friday. The number of pre-orders for the record titled “The Album” reached over 530,000 copies in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Preorders of Samsung Electronics Co.’s new phablet, the Galaxy Note 20, almost matched its predecessor in South Korea despite the novel coronavirus pandemic, industry insiders said Friday. The Galaxy Note 20 preorders in the last seven days were about 90 percent of the Galaxy Note 10 over the same [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Preorders for K-pop boy band EXO’s forthcoming album, “Don’t Mess Up My Tempo,” exceeded 1.1 million copies, its management agency said Wednesday. As of Tuesday, 1,104,617 copies of the fifth full-length album by EXO were ordered in advance of its release on Friday, according to SM Entertainment. “With preorders [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 smartphone maker, is unlikely to accept preorders for its latest flagship, the G5 smartphone, and instead focus on offline promotions of the device, industry sources said Thursday. The South Korean tech giant had held preorders for its predecessors — the G3 and the [...]
ILSAN, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) - Kia Motors Corp., South Korea’s second-ranked carmaker, said Tuesday that it has received around 5,700 preorders for the new Mohave large-size sport utility vehicle since last September when its temporarily halted production resumed. Of the total customers, over 80 percent were men, indicating that its flagship SUV model is [...]