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Black Pink sets record in topping 100m views

Black Pink set another record as a K-pop girl group, topping 100 million views for a music video 10 days after its release. The music video for “Ddu-du Ddu-du,” the lead track on the group’s latest ...

Jun 26, 2018
Music
Black Pink becomes highest charting K-pop girl act on Billboard’s Hot 100

Black Pink rewrote history as the highest charting K-pop girl group ever on Billboard 100 chart, as its latest single “DDU-DU DDU-DU” peaked at No. 55 on the competitive ranking dated June 30. Accor...

Jun 26, 2018
Music
Mamamoo confirms July release of new EP

Mamamoo announced the newest segment of its ongoing “Four Season Four Color Project” by confirming on Tuesday the release of its seventh EP next month. According to its agency RBW, the new EP based ...

Jun 26, 2018
Music
Award-winning musical 'Matilda' to premier first non-English production in Seoul

Based on a 1988 children's novel by the widely-loved British author Roald Dahl, the musical "Matilda" has toured the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand since its We...

Jun 25, 2018
Theater
Korean hip hop act Epik High teams up with Japanese band for new single

South Korean hip hop act Epik High has teamed up with Japanese rock band Sekai no Owari to release a new single later this week, a music label said Monday. Epik High (YG Entertainment) The collabor...

Jun 25, 2018
Music
Government probe clears Momoland of chart rigging

Momoland has been cleared of accusations that it bought thousands of its own records to rig the official sales chart after a government investigation found it to be not true. The girl group’s agency...

Jun 25, 2018
Music
Ever-growing global K-pop festival KCON captivates US fans

KCON, a global K-pop festival that brings music stars to overseas fans, took place over the weekend in Newark, New Jersey. The two-day event at the Prudential Center, attended by some 53,000 fans, w...

Jun 25, 2018
Music
Jung Woo-sung attacked for supporting Jeju’s Yemeni refugees

Actor Jung Woo-sung has been criticized by some for showing support for Yemeni refugees on Jeju Island, with Koreans divided over whether or not to grant them official refugee status. Around 500 Yem...

Jun 25, 2018
Television
G-Dragon accused of receiving preferential treatment in military hospital

G-Dragon has been accused of receiving preferential treatment while in the military. On Monday, a local media outlet reported that the Big Bang front man, who is currently serving in the army, has b...

Jun 25, 2018
Music
Yuju of GFriend to release first EP

GFriend vocalist Yuju is set to release her first solo EP on June 29, her agency said. The news was first announced Monday at midnight on GFriend’s official website via a teaser image of rain fallin...

Jun 25, 2018
Music
Singer Rain eyes November comeback

Singer and actor Rain is planning to drop a new album in November, his agency said Monday. If the release goes as planned, the album will be his first in three years and 10 months since his sixth fu...

Jun 25, 2018
Music
EXO selected as face of Korea

The Korea Tourism Organization is creating a promotional video and K-pop act EXO is to appear on it. According to the KTO, officials are created series of videos on the theme “Korea Asks You, Have y...

Jun 24, 2018
Music
Disgraced actor faces yet another sex attack accusation

How bad exactly was the star of the film “Bad Guy” is the question brewing in Korean entertainment circles, as veteran actor Cho Jae-hyun is fighting yet another accusation of a sex attack on his co-...

Jun 24, 2018
Film
Lotte Duty Free apologizes for cutting off Black Pink mid-song

Lotte Duty Free, South Korea’s top duty-free operator, apologized via its official Instagram account Saturday for sending girl group Black Pink off stage mid-performance at its Lotte Duty Free Family...

Jun 24, 2018
Music
‘Along With the God’ sequels to be shot next year: report

Two more sequels for 2017 megahit “Along With the God: The Two Worlds” will be simultaneously shot next year, a local media outlet reported Sunday. Won Dong-yeon, the chief of Realies Pictures, said...

Jun 24, 2018
Film

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