K-pop sensation SHINee will return with the new full-length album “The Story of Light” this month, the first record to be released by the boy band as a quartet, their agency said Wednesday. The first episode of its sixth LP will be unveiled on May 28, according to SM Entertainment. It will be followed by...Read More
The music video of the popular girl group Black Pink’s latest single, “As If It’s Your Last,” has garnered more than 300 million views on YouTube. The video surpassed the threshold at around 3:00 a.m. on Monday, about one year after it was released, according to YG Entertainment. It recorded the biggest number of clicks...Read More
Even drizzling rain couldn’t deter the festivities of people celebrating the Buddha’s birth. At the lantern parade, the highlight of the annual Lotus Lantern Festival which ran on Saturday and Sunday, over 100,000 lanterns created a magnificent wave of light that flowed through the heart of Seoul like an earthbound Milky Way. People holding lanterns...Read More
President Moon Jae-in met with a South Korean art troupe that performed in Pyeongyang last month and said that, “You guys have opened the door wide for inter-Korean exchanges. I will do my best to keep the door open so that the resumed exchanges between the flow of cultural exchanges will continue to go on,”...Read More
Visa Free policy for Southeast Asian tourists entering YangYang International Airport has been extended until the end of the year. Gangwon-do agreed to extend the period of visa-free entry, which is only temporarily operated in three countries including Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia, for 8 months until December 31, with the Ministry of Justice in order...Read More
K-pop boy band BTS is set to appear on the popular American talk show “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” later this month, on the sidelines of its scheduled performance at the Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs), its agency said Wednesday. Big Hit Entertainment said the program has invited the group on the show and details like date...Read More
Global Online KPOP audition platform The growth in the popularity and influence of K-pop has been increasing exponentially due to globalization. In recent years, it has become essential for K-pop idol groups to consist of international members in order to gain more attention and popularity. As this trend continues, there has been an upsurge of...Read More
International media outlets from around the world have been putting out positive assessments of the outcomes of the 2018 Inter-Korean Summit that led to the Panmunjeom Declaration. CNN said on April 27, under the title “North and South Korea vow to end the Korean War in historic accord,” that, “The leaders of North and South...Read More
North Korea’s state media reported Saturday that the inter-Korean summit declaration included “complete denuclearization,” a rare public mention of the phrase that raised hopes of joint efforts toward the hitherto elusive goal. “North and South Korea affirmed the common goal of realizing a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula through complete denuclearization,” the North’s Korean Central News Agency...Read More
On CNN, the United States introduced the North Korean Pyongyang Naengmyeon, which was selected as the main food for the North-South summit meeting on April 27 2018. The directors tasted the dish and reported that the dish would be an important part of the “food diplomacy” between the two Koreas. The CNN broadcast on the...Read More
