Twice placed its third studio album “Formula of Love: O+T=
BTS achieved another landmark feat at the American Music Awards on Sunday, bagging three trophies in total, including Artist of the Year.During the 2021 AMA ceremony on Sunday (US time) at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, the K-pop superstars picked up prizes in three categories -- Artist of th
Korea Arts Group hosted a multicultural concert named “Woollim V – The Color of Your Mind” at Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Seoul on Tuesday.The concert, sponsored by Seoul Metropolitan Government and The Korea Herald, was a part of a private festival in Seoul to support multicultural art
BUSAN -- The 26th Busan International Film Festival held an offline opening ceremony Wednesday night at the Busan Cinema Center.The ceremony was hosted by Hallyu star Song Joong-ki and Park So-dam, who had a breakthrough year in 2019 for her role in the Academy Award-winning film “Parasite.”“It has
BUSAN -- The 26th Busan International Film Festival kicked off with the world premiere of “Heaven: To the Land of Happiness’ from director Im Sang-soo.The South Korean buddy drama made it to the Cannes Film Festival’s 2020 Official Selection list.Im’s movie centers on two men: No. 203, played by Cho
BTS has topped the Billboard Hot 100 again Tuesday with “My Universe,” its collaborative single with Coldplay, piling onto the otherworldly feats by the pop sensation that has popped out five No.1 singles in a little over a year.It marked the Septet’s 11th week on the top spot this year, more than a
The 2021 Seoul International Music Fair (MU:CON), known as Asia’s largest music market fair, will be held online from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2.Marking its 10th anniversary this year, MU:CON has consistently kept up with its aim to promote “K-pop Hallyu,” by establishing a network of domestic and foreign m
NCT127 sold over 2.12 million copies of its forthcoming third full-length album “Sticker,” according to label SM Entertainment on Thursday. The LP, due out Friday, topped 1.3 million preorders on the first day.The album consists of 11 tracks, including same-titled main track, a hip-hop dance number
BTS is holding a digital concert on Oct. 24, the band announced on Wednesday. Titled “BTS Permission to Dance on Stage,” the show will be broadcast live. It has been about a year since its previous concert, “BTS Map of the Soul ON:E,” which was livestreamed across the world and drew 993,000 fans fro
Rookie girl group aespa will come out with its first EP “Savage” on Oct. 5, announced label SM Entertainment on Tuesday.The EP will consist of six songs including the same-titled main track. It will be the first physical album for the band that debuted in November last year. The four-member group st
Music producer and composer Kim Hyung-suk was named the executive producer of the K-Culture Festival, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Monday.The K-Culture Festival kicks off Nov. 13-14 at the country’s largest convention center, Kintex, northwest of Seoul in Goyang, Gyeonggi Provinc
After a remarkable career in the entertainment industry, artistic director of PMC Production Song Seung-whan has set his sights on a different field.Debuting as a child actor in 1965, it is no exaggeration to say Sung has been involved in almost every field of Korean culture and the entertainment bu
Following the great popularity of tourism campaign videos featuring Leenalchi and the Ambiguous Dance Company last year, mixing pansori with a modern twist and contemporary choreography, season two of the series offers another fresh mix: Korean hip-hop and traditional folk music.The second season of
Culture Minister Hwang Hee discussed future policies on arts and culture in communication with the nation’s young artists through the metaverse on Thursday, the ministry announced the following day.The event in the metaverse was organized to celebrate and evaluate the results of the ministry-led cam
Seventeen will be active as a 11-member group for the remaining year so that Chinese bandmates Jun and The8 could focus on activities in their homeland, announced agency Pledis Entertainment on Wednesday. The company has been seeking ways to support activities of each member as well as the group as
Key of Shinee is hosting an online concert on his own on Sept. 26 that will be livestreamed around the world via Naver’s V Live.The concert, titled “Key: Groks in the Keyland,” will be his first standalone concert in about 2 1/2 years. The viewership will be available for purchase from Sept. 1. In t
Changwon National University's Department of Clothing (President Ho-Young Lee) announced on the 30th that the 'Exhibition Fabric Art 2021 Costume Design Exhibition,' hosted by the Gyeongnam Clothing Promotion Association and sponsored by the Changwon National University Promotion Project, will be he
San, Yoonho and Jongho of Ateez participated in Pentatonix’s newest song that was unveiled on Friday. The three bandmates were the featured artists in the American a cappella group’s retake on “A Little Space.” The triple Grammy winning quintet reached out to the boy band and the trio gladly accepte
The bandmates of Winner all agreed to renew their contracts with label YG Entertainment, announced the company on Wednesday. They signed the contracts together for another five years, before the initial seven-year contract’s expiry date, in time for their seventh anniversary of debut on Tuesday. “We
Cravity put out its first studio album on Thursday and held an online showcase.“It was on my bucket list as a singer to release a full album,” said Wonjin, “It is like doing the first button and we’ve been so fastidious.”The nonet rolled out “The Awakening: Written in the Stars,” about 16 months sin
