SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group NewJeans has been selected as one of the Next Generation Leaders by the U.S. Time magazine for this year. The group made it on the Next Generation Leaders 2023 list released Tuesday (U.S. time), alongside celebrities like British actor Florence Pugh and Brazilian journalist and activist [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean actress Lee You-mi, who starred in the popular Netflix series “Squid Game” (2021), has been chosen as one of the Next Generation Leaders by U.S. magazine TIME. “Squid Game made her a star. Now Lee You-mi is forging her own path,” TIME commented on her. In September, [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk-yeol has ranked among U.S. magazine Time’s 100 most influential people of 2022, its website showed Tuesday. Yoon, who was inaugurated two weeks ago, was chosen in the category of leaders. He was introduced as a “a former prosecutor with little foreign policy experience” who is “determined [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group aespa has been chosen as one of the Next Generation Leaders by the U.S. news magazine TIME. Since 2014, the magazine has annually announced the list featuring trendsetters and trailblazers who are guiding the way to a brighter future. “aespa is an experiment, but it [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Z Flip3 foldable smartphone has been listed on Best Inventions 2021 by U.S. magazine Time. The magazine has selected this year’s best inventions from some 20 different fields. Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip3 was the only smartphone to be included in the consumer electronics section. “Manufacturers [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean actress Youn Yuh-jung, who won an Oscar earlier this year for her role in the immigrant film “Minari,” has been named one of the 100 most influential people of 2021 by American weekly magazine TIME. The 74-year-old screen veteran made the annual list released Wednesday (U.S. time), [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Jang Hye-young, a novice female lawmaker with the progressive minor Justice Party, has been listed among the Time magazine’s “100 Next” emerging leaders for 2021. The 34-year-old lawmaker made the annual Time list in the advocates category, out of the total five categories that also include artists and leaders. [...]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop megastar BTS has been named the Time magazine “entertainer of the year,” the U.S. weekly said Thursday. BTS “isn’t just the biggest K-pop act on the charts. They’ve become the biggest band in the world — full stop,” the influential magazine said in a Twitter post. “Between releasing multiple [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — CL, a member of popular South Korean girl group 2NE1, ranked No. 2 on TIME magazine‘s online voting for its 100 most influential people of 2015 list, according to the magazine’s website Tuesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin ”edged out rapper-singer CL to claim the number one spot with 6.95 percent [...]