SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group Babymonster’s Ahyeon will return to the team in April, ending her monthslong hiatus for health reasons, the group’s agency said Thursday. Originally planned to debut as a septet with members — Ruka, Pharita, Asa, Rami, Rora, Chiquita and Ahyeon — the group made its long-awaited debut [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has extended its contract for group activities with YG Entertainment, the company said Wednesday. “The board has completed a resolution about renewing the contracts with BLACKPINK’s four members,” YG said. Rose, Lisa, Jisoo and Jennie debuted as BLACKPINK in 2016. Their seven-year contracts with YG [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — YG Entertainment on Friday announced the debut date for Babymonster, the first girl group from the K-pop label in seven years. In a teaser poster posted on its official blog, the label said Babymonster will make its highly anticipated debut on Nov. 27. YG previously announced the septet would [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s big three entertainment agencies said Thursday they won a total of 13 prizes at the iF Design Award 2016 in Germany, one of the world’s three largest design awards events. S.M. Entertainment said three of its albums won prizes in the field of packaging design including boy [...]
Seoul, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Billboard is taking notice of song-writer Brave Brothers’ (Kang Dong-chul, 36) entrance into the American market. In an article posted on June 11, titled ‘YG & Krazie Bone Break International Borders With Brave Brothers Produced ‘Cash Money”, Billboard speaks highly of Brave Brothers as ‘one of the best K-pop producers’. They [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy group BigBang’s two new singles hit the top two spots of Billboard’s World Digital Songs’ chart, which was updated Thursday. “Loser” and “Bae Bae,” both from the group’s new single album “M,” ranked No. 1 and No. 2 on the list less than a week after [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea’s big-three talent agencies–SM Entertainment, YG Entertainment, and JYP Entertainment–are competing hard in launching new idol groups. Of these, however, only YG Entertainment has seen its share price soar recently while others are languishing in the market. According to financial investment sources on August 13, the top-three entertainment agencies have debuted [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Billboard reviewed favorably the new music video of Akdong Musician “Give Love,” saying “another peppy, breezy track.” On May 5, Billboard introduced Akdong Musician’s third single “Give Love” and its music video. About the music video, Billboard said, “After a somber mini-film for second single ‘Melted,’ Akdong Musician released [...]