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'Captain Marvel' advance ticket sales top 240,000 in S. Korea

"Captain Marvel" has already sold 240,000 tickets two days ahead of its theatrical release in South Korea, data showed Monday. The advance ticket sales of the Marvel superhero film recorded 245,880 ...

Mar 4, 2019
Film
BTS to add five shows to sold-out world tour

K-pop boy band BTS plans to offer additional concerts on its upcoming tour of five cities in the United States and Europe, as tickets have sold out, its official website showed Sunday. (Yonhap) The...

Mar 3, 2019
Music
BLACKPINK becomes first Korean cover girls for Billboard

A pink-hued photo image of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK hit the cover of the Billboard magazine's March edition, making the quartet the first Korean female music group representing the American pop mag...

Mar 1, 2019
Music
Ultra Korea announces lineup for this year’s festival

Ultra Korea, the Korean leg of the worldwide Ultra Music Festival, has announced a new batch of artists that will participate in this year’s event. Martin Garrix, Skrillex, Porter Robinson’s new ali...

Mar 1, 2019
Music
Embarking on ‘Organ Odyssey’ with organist Park Joon-ho

Lotte Concert Hall introduces soft classical music with yearlong organ concert series

Feb 28, 2019
Music
[Box Office] Movies in theaters this week

A Resistance (Korea) Opened Feb. 27 Drama, History Directed by Jo Min-ho After the iconic March 1 Independence Movement of 1919, one of its leading figures, Yu Gwan-sun (Go Ah-sung), is sentence...

Feb 28, 2019
Film
BIGBANG's Seungri denies drug, sex-for-favors allegations in police questioning

Seungri of the popular boy group BIGBANG denied drug use and sex-for-favors allegations during a questioning, police said Thursday. An investigation team of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency sent...

Feb 28, 2019
Music
Big Bang's Seungri appears for police questioning on narcotics, sex-for-favors suspicions

Seungri, a member of popular boy group Big Bang, appeared before police on Wednesday to face questioning on suspicions that he circulated narcotics and attempted to buy sexual services for potential ...

Feb 27, 2019
Music
Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo’s barefoot heroine ‘Cinderella’ to perform in Korea

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo will perform “Cinderella” from June 12-14 at the Seoul Arts Center, the first time the company is performing in Korea in 14 years. “Cinderella” is one of the iconic choreo...

Feb 27, 2019
Theater
Ex-Wanna One member Ha Sung-woon kicks off solo career with self-produced EP

Ha Sung-woon, a member of popular K-pop boy band Wanna One, which disbanded earlier this year, officially launched his solo career Wednesday with his EP "My Moment," a collection of five tracks, all ...

Feb 27, 2019
Music
Seungri fiasco marks latest headache for YG

Big Bang member vows full cooperation with police on recent scandal

Feb 27, 2019
Music
BTS ranks second in 2018 artist chart by intl recording federation

K-pop boy band BTS ranked second among the top ten global recording artists of 2018, named by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, becoming the first Korean musicians to make it...

Feb 27, 2019
Music
NCT 127 to begin tour of 11 N. American cities in April

K-pop boy band NCT 127 will visit 11 North American cities in April as part of its ongoing first-ever world tour, the group's agency said Wednesday. The North American leg of NCT 127's world tour, "...

Feb 27, 2019
Music
[Newsmaker] Police target Seungri in sex-trade investigation

Seoul police on Tuesday said they had launched an investigation into an allegation that K-pop star Seungri of Big Bang ordered his employees to procure sexual favors for his investors at a nightclub....

Feb 26, 2019
Music
Conductor Vladimir Jurowski appreciates ‘DNA’ of orchestra

When conductor Vladimir Jurowski leads the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance at the Seoul Arts Center on March 7, it will likely be his last appearance here as the principal conductor of...

Feb 26, 2019
Music

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