SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK, the world’s biggest girl group, has garnered over 90 million subscribers on YouTube, cementing its position as the most-followed musical act on the global video sharing service. The quartet hit the milestone at 5:36 a.m. Monday, about seven years and a month after its YouTube channel was created, [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — With the opening of its first official shopping channel in South Korea, YouTube has paved the way for direct-to-consumer (D2C) shopping malls to launch live shopping programs. Aqo Studio initiated a live shopping program on YouTube’s shopping channel on July 1, accumulating over 350,000 views. Gaze Shop also joined [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — YouTube will launch its official shopping channel in South Korea for live commerce later this month for the first time in the world, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday. The new channel, set to open June 30, will provide a live commerce platform to companies and plans to [...]
BUSAN, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — In the film “A Time to Kill (1996),” a black father takes the law into his own hands when he shoots and kills two white men in a courtroom. He commits this act of vigilante justice as a response to the rape of his young daughter by two white [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Videos featuring audio of specific frequencies that purportedly “grant wishes” are gaining popularity on YouTube. A 24-year-old office worker surnamed Jang experienced an unexpected financial windfall after listening to these “money-making frequencies,” leading him to genuinely believe in their efficacy. Jang has made a habit of listening to frequency [...]
JINJU, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A museum in the southeastern city of Jinju is gaining popularity among military enthusiasts after videos posted on YouTube received a positive response. The Jinju National Museum specializes in the history of Japan’s Invasion of Korea (1592-1598) and has been running a YouTube series called “Firepower Joseon” for two [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean celebrity sphere is struggling with fake news being spread on YouTube. VAST Entertainment, the management company representing Hyun Bin, denied rumors spread on YouTube that the star actor and actress Son Ye-jin had divorced. The video falsely claimed that Hyun lost 15 billion won (US$11.4 million) to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Videos in which people go about random places asking simple questions to passers-by like “What song are you listening to?” are gaining popularity among viewers in their 20s and 30s. A 3-minute and 30-second video in which a person carried around a sketchbook with a written question that said [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — YouTube Shorts garner the majority of views on the video platform, a survey showed Wednesday. Collab Korea, a South Korean unit of Los Angeles-based multi channel network Collab, conducted a viewership analysis of some 1,500 YouTube channels, which showed that 84 percent of all views were from mobile devices. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The so-called “eco-wakening effect,” which refers to the rising interest in environmental issues, is spreading in South Korea, an analytics firm said Monday. Ars Praxia conducted an analysis upon request by the South Korean unit of the international non-governmental organization World Wide Fund for Nature, which showed that 108,324 [...]