SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Japanese government is stepping up to use YouTube to insist on calling the East Sea the ‘Sea of Japan.’ Japan’s Foreign Ministry posted a YouTube video titled ‘Sea of Japan – The one and only name recognized by the international community’ last month. In the video, the Foreign [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — “Feel the Rhythm of Korea Season 2,” a Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) series of videos promoting Korean tourism, has surpassed 100 million views on YouTube. As of Friday morning, eight video episodes of Feel the Rhythm of Korea had amassed a total of more than 105 million views. The [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensations BTS sat down with Coldplay front man Chris Martin to talk about the recent “Permission to Dance Challenge” and what it means to be famous. In a video posted Friday (Korean time) on the weekly YouTube music show “RELEASED,” Martin conducted a virtual interview with the septet [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean superband BTS, along with Coldplay front man, Chris Martin, will appear on YouTube’s weekly music show next week, the septet’s agency said Saturday. The K-pop sensation and Martin are set to appear on a special episode of YouTube Originals’ weekly music series “Released” that will air at [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for the 2019 BTS hit “Boy With Luv (Feat. Halsey)” earned more than 1.3 billion views on YouTube on Sunday, the group’s agency said, in yet another milestone for the K-pop dynamo. “Boy With Luv,” the main track for the seven-piece act’s sixth EP “Map of [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — YouTube videos by Hamimommy, a seven-year professional housekeeper and YouTuber, showing how she cleans the rice cooker and dishes she uses for breakfast, have been watched by more than 5 million viewers. Similar YouTube channels, including ones that publish videos in which they clean dirty homes to offer a [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Government restrictions on outdoor activities and gatherings due to the pandemic are resulting a spike in the popularity of exercise videos on YouTube. One of the most popular fitness channels on YouTube is Gym Jong Kook, a channel run by South Korean singer Kim Jong-kook. The channel reached 1 [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Concerns are rising over YouTube videos of experiments with explosives and other dangerous acts that remain posted for a number of years. In a YouTube video posted in September 2019, a local YouTuber was seen dropping a lump of sodium into a stream near a residential area, calling it [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for all-female act BLACKPINK’s song “Ddu-du Ddu-du” has broken 1.6 billion views on YouTube. The 2018 hit broke the milestone at 7:22 a.m. Friday, setting a new record for a K-pop act, its management agency YG Entertainment said. The record came roughly 19 months after it [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS has set another record, with its latest single “Butter” becoming the most-watched music video on YouTube in 24 hours since its debut, its agency said Sunday. The upbeat summer song had racked up 108.2 million views in its first 24 hours of release on Friday, Big Hit Music [...]