SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — SM Entertainment and JYP Entertainment, two of South Korea’s leading K-pop labels and agencies, have announced the launch of a joint company for virtual concerts. The company, Beyond Live Corp. (BLC), will operate to expand the paid Beyond Live online concert series, created earlier this year between SM and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — SM Entertainment, a leading K-pop label-agency behind groups such as EXO, Red Velvet and NCT 127, said Monday it has secured an investment of 100 billion won (US$83.8 million) from the country’s top internet portal operator, Naver, strengthening their partnership in areas of online concerts and fan community platform. [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — SM Entertainment, one of South Korea’s oldest and most influential K-pop entertainment companies, on Friday expressed support for the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. “We stand with our Black collaborators, friends and fans and all who are speaking out to insist that Black Lives Matter,” SM [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s biggest K-pop label, SM Entertainment, will host the Asian leg of a globally renowned multi-continental charity concert by the poverty reduction movement Global Citizen next year, SM said Wednesday. SM’s founder and chief producer Lee Soo-man and other SM officials secured the deal with Simon Moss, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — In collaboration with an affiliate of American entertainment giant Universal Music Group, South Korea’s biggest music label SM Entertainment will unveil a new boy band in October that will bring together highly accomplished artists under its wing. Under the joint project with the U.S.-based Capitol Music Group (CMG), home [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SM Entertainment, a leading South Korean talent agency and music label, signed an agreement with a media branch of Indonesia’s CT Corp on Thursday to make inroads into the Southeast Asian country, the local firm said. Under the heads of agreement signed in Jakarta with Trans Media, the two [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — “We are preparing to set up a subsidiary in Vietnam,” said Han Se-min, the CEO of SM Entertainment, on September 11 in Hanoi. The remarks by the head of the country’s No.1 entertainment company came during a panel discussion at the Korea-Vietnam Business Cooperation Seminar on September 11. “We [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) – EXO-CBX, the K-pop boy band EXO’s sub-unit, will release its first full-length album, titled “MAGIC,” in Japan next month, its agency said Wednesday. SM Entertainment said the album features 11 tracks, including eight new songs, such as “Horololo” and solo songs by its members, Chen, Baekhyun and Xiumin. With the May 9 release, the sub-unit will go on tour in Japan. Titled “EXO-CBX Magical [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Media outlets of the United Arab Emirates have offered extensive coverage of a recent K-pop gala concert thrown by SM Entertainment, South Korea’s largest entertainment agency, last week in Dubai. The concert, “SM Town Live World Tour VI in Dubai,” was held at the Autism Rocks Arena in Dubai [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean pop stars from SM Entertainment held a press conference on Thursday in Dubai ahead of their live concert SM Town Live. The press conference – part of the promos for the very first SM Town Live concert in the Arab region – garnered attention from major local media [...]