“After the six-month journey with ‘Street Woman Fighter’ and ‘Street Dance Girls Fighter,’ the leaders of the dance crews will show their amazing chemistry outside of the stage,” tvN official said in a press release on Friday. “Not Hurt You X Street Woman Fighter” is set to air the first episode on Jan. 27 at 11:10 p.m. The program will air regularly on Thursdays at 8:40 p.m. from Feb. 3.

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Kakao Entertainment released well-known author Cho Seok-ho’s new series “Call Sign” as both a web novel and a webtoon on Friday. “Call Sign,” one of the most anticipated projects of the first half of the year, revolves around a rookie firefighter who has the ability to save others’ lives by putting his own life at stake. “In our world, there are many people who put all of their passion and whol...

The Baby Shark song has also been a huge hit on global music charts, ranking 32nd on the main singles chart of “Billboard’s “The Hot 100” by Billboard and No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart. The music‘s success lies in “unfamiliarity in the familiar,” Pinkfong CEO Kim Min-seok told a local media outlet. The rhythm is cute and bouncy, but the animals are sharks. Picking out a passage from classical mu...

“‘PUBG: Battlegrounds’ is the only Korean game entitled a global-hit game. We hope to expand the power of the game’s IP with the new free-to-play mode policy,” the official added. The online multiplayer shooting game involves 100 players fighting in a last man standing match, where the last survivor becomes the winner. Users can choose to start the match in solo, duo mode or as a team of up to ...

Special Delivery (Korea) Opened Jan. 12 Action Directed by Park Dae-min Special delivery driver Eun-ha (Park So-dam) mainly works for a criminal group. She delivers anything that cannot be delivered legally. One day, Eun-ha receives a mission to deliver Seo-won (Jung Hyeon-jun), a young boy that a criminal group is chasing after. When she decides to save him, she becomes a target of not only...

Bae Jinyoung of boy band CIX will make a debut on the silver screen through a movie that is a collaborative work between Thailand and Singapore, said agency C9 Entertainment on Thursday. He will star as the male lead in the film that also features Xu Bin and Damien Teo, both popular actors in Singapore. He debuted as a member of Wanna One after participating in audition program “Produce 1...

The musician went on to say that the “devil” he tried to portray is the fear that people might have to face, as the virus doesn’t seem like it will dissipate any time soon. He referred to it as the “two-year period that has evaporated because of the pandemic.” “The original version of the song is much more powerful and gives a strong impression, but I wanted to express my thoughts about how impo...

Global streaming service Netflix has confirmed the casting for its original series “Goodbye Earth,” Thursday. Actors Yoo Ah-in, Ahn Eun-jin, Kim Yoon-hye and Jeon Seong-woo will star in Netflix’s new apocalypse movie, according to the company. “Goodbye Earth” revolves around the stories of individuals who are left with only 200 days to live before an asteroid hits Earth. The series is a highly...

The KBS Symphony Orchestra appointed renowned South Korean conductor Chung Myung-whun as its first-ever conductor laureate, according to the orchestra on Thursdsay. Chung’s tenure began this month. Conductor laureate is an honorary position given to a conductor who has international repuation or contributed to the development of the orchestra. This is the first the KBS Symphony Orchestra, found...

Based on S.M. Entertainment’s independent count, its K-pop artists sold a total of 17.62 million copies, nearly doubling the previous year‘s record. Its boy group NCT-related album sales accounted for about 62 percent of sales. “When bringing back live in-person concerts, the soaring physical album sales may experience a slow down for a while, but the upward movement is likely to continue in the...

New album talks about struggles people face when they feel lost in life

"Squid Game" creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has said he still believes in a humanity that moves people to put confidence in a better and more just society even under the life-and-death pressure of social survival games. "We are living in a society where people dare to tread on other people to survive," he said Wednesday in a pretaped interview by the Seoul-based Corea Image Communication Institute. "Bu...

South Korea's global phenomenon "Squid Game" has earned four nominations, including the top prize of best ensemble, from the US Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards. SAG on Wednesday (US time) unveiled its final list of nominations for its 28th edition of the awards ceremony slated for Feb. 27. "Squid Game," a Korean-language Netflix original, is up for outstanding performances by an ensemble cast ...

All the members of Ily:1 have been identified, as agency FC ENM shared the profile images for the last two on Wednesday. The two final bandmates, Rona and Elva, are both from Taipei, Taiwan. Rona was one of the 99 participants in “Girls’ Planet 999: The Girls Saga,” the same K-pop competition through which Kep1er debuted. The other four bandmates were unveiled in pairs on Monday and Tuesd...