One of South Korea’s longest-running music chart shows is streaming old episodes from the 1990s and 2000s, a move that has proven a hit with music fans. SBS’ “Inkigayo” has been showcasing the best of Korean pop music to viewers across the country for the last three decades on the small screen and some of...Read More
K-pop boy band SEVENTEEN marked the beginning of its world tour named “Ode To You” with three shows in Seoul over the weekend. This is the 13-member group’s second world tour, following “Diamond Edge” two years ago. Over 40,000 people attended the three Seoul performances held in the Olympic Park KSPO Dome. “We named the...Read More
The K-pop World Festa performance(KBS Music Bank in Gangneung) will be staged in Gangneung, where coffee and K-pop will meet. Gangneung City said the K-pop World Festa performance will be held at Gangneung General Stadium on Oct. 5 during the 2019 Coffee Festival at Gangneung Arena from Oct. 3-6. Book KBS Music Bank in Gangneung...Read More
“The First Color of Sound Audition” which is conducted by V-Square, produced and managed by SFR Entertainment, and which will be globally distributed by Warner Music Korea has moved on to the next round of the audition after long deliberation. The next round is fan voting and it will be conducted until the 30th of...Read More
This 27th of August the Korea Embassy in the Philippines released a notice of discontinuing to accept Korean Visa Express applications. Effectively on September 07, 2019 the Korean Visa Express in the Philippines will discontinue due to the increase in the number of Filipinos going to the country. Book SBS Super Concert Incheon + Shuttle Bus...Read More
TWICE’s music video for “YES or YES” has surpassed 200 million views on YouTube. The music video for “YES or YES,” released by TWICE at 6 p.m. on Nov. 5, 2018, surpassed 200 million views on YouTube at 7:41 a.m. on 29 August. This will give TWICE more than 200 million views on nine of...Read More
A “global K-pop map” showing the distribution of global viewership of K-pop clips was released on Aug. 21 by Blip, a private data research organization. Book SBS Super Concert Blip said it studied the worldwide viewership of the YouTube videos of 76 K-pop idol acts between July 1 last year and June 30 this year....Read More
K-pop boy band BTS has been picked as British MTV’s Hottest Summer Superstar of the year, the broadcaster’s website showed Sunday. The popular boy band won the title by beating big-name artists, such as Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande and K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, by raking in 19.7 million votes, accounting for nearly half of the...Read More
SHINee Onew and EXO Xiumin will star in the Army musical “Return: Promise of the Day.” “Return: Promise of the Day” is an original musical by the Army that succeeded “Main,” “The Navigation of Life,” “The Primes” and “Shinheung Military Academy.” The musical is about the excavation of the remains of combat heroes who took...Read More
The music label of popular K-pop girl group TWICE will team up with YouTube to produce a premium original series featuring its ascent in the global music scene, the label said Tuesday. The special YouTube Original content, accessible to subscribers to YouTube’s Premium service, will follow the group’s four-year journey since its debut in 2015,...Read More
