SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — As anti-Chinese, anti-Korean sentiment is reaching extreme levels following the Beijing Winter Olympics, a Chinese fan club for South Korean comedian Yoo Jae-suk suddenly announced that is was shutting down. The ‘Yoo Jae-suk Universe’ fan club announced on the Chinese social media platform Weibo last Sunday that the fan [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Yoo Jae-suk, a famous comedian and emcee of TV variety shows, tested positive for the new coronavirus Monday, although he is fully vaccinated, his talent agency said. Yoo was confirmed to have the virus after receiving the second polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test in the morning, Antenna said. He [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — From its inception, SSAK3, a one-off K-pop team created for MBC TV’s weekend variety show “Hang Out With Yoo,” was intended to be a silly tongue-in-cheek project, riding on the coattails of the retro boom in today’s pop culture landscape. At best, the co-ed trio, formed of two late [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Grévin Seoul, a wax museum located in central Seoul, has just added Yoo Jae-suk to its collection of wax celebrities, who becomes the first South Korean comedian to be featured at the museum. Yoo made a surprise visit to Grévin Seoul Friday morning for a short celebration event and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The biggest beneficiary of Tuesday’s parliamentary hearing of eight Korean conglomerate chiefs into the Choi Soon-sil scandal was neither the investigative parliamentary committee, nor the prosecutors; it was Softlips, a lip balm lineup from American health care products maker The Mentholatum Company. The lip balm was brought to attention [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A waxwork of South Korea’s No.1 TV personality and host, Yoo Jae-suk, is being created. To celebrate the one-year anniversary of Grevin Seoul, a wax museum from Paris, PR representatives from Hahm Shout publicly announced on Wednesday, July 6, that the museum plans to make a wax model of ‘National [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — In a December 6 episode of Infinite Challenge, a reality show program on MBC-TV, actor Cha Seung-won made his second appearance in a segment challenging to work in a shaft as deep as 1,050 meters together with comedian Yoo Jae-suk. The two had been in a challenge mission nine years [...]
“As is applicable to other entertainment programs, it will be better, to my understanding, if we drop the program when the audience most loves it. I don’t want to direct the final episode when there is nothing but indifference or finger pointing left.” “Although it was low in viewer ratings at the beginning, we have managed this program [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey by a specialty coffee franchise revealed that people enjoy a cup of coffee most after their lunch time. Starbucks Korea, to mark its 15-year anniversary in Korea, has conducted a survey of consumer consumption patterns on 30,000 visitors of its official Facebook page since last July, and revealed [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – In its vacation themed episode of MBC’s entertainment program “Infinite Challenge,” members offered scenes of boisterous laughter by catching octopus only with their mouths. In the special episode of “Bang Kok,” which does not mean the tourist city of Thailand but “locking yourself up in your room” (being forced [...]