SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — SM Entertainment announced Friday that it will sever ties with its chief producer Lee Soo-man at the end of this year. SM said its board of directors convened a meeting and decided to terminate a production license contract with Like Planning, a music production company owned by Lee, on [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Fans flocked to “SM Town Live 2022: SMCU EXPRESS,” which was held for the first time in three years at the Tokyo Dome in Japan from Saturday to Monday. The festival, hosted by SM Entertainment, starred BoA, Super Junior, SHINee, Red Velvet, NCT, aespa and other SM artists. Fans [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics said Thursday it has set up a joint venture with SM Entertainment, the K-pop agency behind aespa and NCT Dream, to tap into the growing home fitness market. LG Electronics CEO Cho Joo-wan expressed hope the new joint venture, Fitness Candy, will elevate LG from being a [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — SM Entertainment, a K-pop powerhouse, said Thursday will hold the first in-person joint concert of its artists in about five years in August. The concert titled “SMTOWN Live 2022: SMCU EXPRESS @HUMAN CITY_SUWON” will take place at the Suwon World Cup Stadium in Suwon, 35 kilometers south of Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SM Entertainment, a leading K-pop agency, formed a new supergroup Monday with seven of its top female artists. GOT the beat consists of diva BoA; Taeyeon and Hyoyeon of Girls’ Generation; Seulgi and Wendy of Red Velvet and Karina and Winter of aespa. It is the first group formed [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ ENM, a leading entertainment and media company, is in talks to bring K-pop powerhouse SM Entertainment under its control, a source with direct knowledge of the talks has said. The deal, if realized, would see the birth of an entertainment giant that could shake the Korean pop cultural [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Soo-man, the chief producer and founder of K-pop powerhouse SM Entertainment, on Tuesday announced plans to diversify the company’s business and include more fans in the process. “Our metaverse content has been recognized for its originality through blockchain technology, and in an era where content is valued, the [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — KAIST, South Korea’s top science university, said Thursday it is teaming up with K-pop powerhouse SM Entertainment Co. to conduct joint research on digital avatars for virtual concerts in an effort to boost development in metaverse technology. The metaverse — a virtual environment where users interact through digital avatars [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — SM Entertainment, the K-pop powerhouse behind acts like SuperM and EXO, on Friday unveiled a plan to launch a new K-pop band in the United States through a televised audition program. SM and MGM Worldwide Television will introduce a competition series to pick members of a new boy band [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — SM Entertainment said Monday it will hold a free online concert on the first day of next year to give comfort to those fighting against the novel coronavirus pandemic across the world. The “SMTOWN Live” concert will be live streamed this Friday on social media platforms, including YouTube, Twitter [...]