SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean boy bands BigBang and EXO each collected four trophies at the 2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) at Asia World-Expo Arena in Hong Kong on Wednesday, with 10,000 K-pop enthusiasts attending. BigBang captured the “Song of the Year” award for “Bang Bang Bang” and also nabbed “Artist [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean rap sensation Psy released his new album Tuesday, his first since the smash hit “Gangnam Style” catapulted him to worldwide fame. The 37-year-old rapper’s seventh career album, “Chiljip Psy-da,” features a range of songs he claims to be most like himself, including two title songs — “Napal [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Rapper Psy will reveal part of his upcoming album in a live online broadcast this week, his agency said Tuesday. The man made popular with the music video of “Gangnam Style” in 2012 will appear on the Naver broadcasting app “V” for six days starting Tuesday, which is a [...]
SEOUL, Nov.13 (Korea Bizwire) – Yonsei University has revealed that Psy, the international entertainer who will be making a comeback next month, donated 500 million won to Severance Hospital’s children’s ward. With the funds, a ‘Psy Treatment Room’ was created. According to officials at the hospital, the treatment room built with the funds donated by [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The signature horse-riding dance move by South Korean rap sensation Psy will be made into a landmark in front of a large shopping complex in southern Seoul, the local district office said Friday. The sculpture will consist of two fists positioned in the wrist movement of the dance routine [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) - With Korean cosmetics products creating a buzz in the international market due to the so-called ‘K-Beauty’ craze, domestic entertainment businesses and celebrities are launching their own brands. These brands have been attracting a lot of attention from the start, thanks to their popular creators. J.ONE, the cosmetics brand launched in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean singer and entertainer PSY and professor Seo Gyeong-duk from Sungshin Women’s University have started to distribute K-Pop brochures at American universities. The brochures, sensibly made out of eco-friendly materials, contain various information about K-Pop – the definition, history, secret to popularity, culture and ‘sing alongs’ (when the audience [...]
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, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Want a selfie with actor Kim Soo-hyun but not sure how to get one? Not to worry, the French wax museum Musee Grevin has come up with a solution. Kim’s wax figure is among dozens that will be displayed at the first Asian branch of the museum opening in Seoul next [...]
Seoul, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A theme park where Hallyu tourists can enjoy K-pop at a hologram concert hall will be established on Jeju Island. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning announced that they would be opening a digital theme park called ‘Play K-pop’ with NIK, a company that invests in content and [...]