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S-Oil’s Ulsan refinery explodes, eight transferred to hospital
International Arts Education Week to be held next week
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[Box Office] Movies in theaters this week
Film
Mar 25, 2022
Hot Blooded (Korea) Opened March 23 Crime, Action Directed by Cheon Myoung-kwan In 1993 in Kuam, a small port town outside Busan, third-rate gangster Hee-su acts like a hotel manager under Don Son (Kim Kap-soo). One day, Yong-kang (Choi Mu-sung), who fled the country suspected of murder, returns home and begins causing trouble. Hee-su finds out that the trouble was caused by the drugs that Y...
[Today’s K-pop] NCT127 to tour Japan in May, June
K-pop
Mar 24, 2022
Boy band Mirae will meet its fans in Japan for the first time in May, its agency DSP Media announced. The seven members will hold fan meet events, named “Into Our Future NOW,” in Osaka and Kawasaki, on May 4th and 6th. It will be the first time they are greeting their international fans in person. The band debuted in March last year with EP “Killa.” It is also hosting a fan meet in Seoul ...
[Herald Interview] French filmmaker Denis Dercourt not surprised to see Korean content thrive globally
Film
Mar 24, 2022
The director talked further about why he created Mi-sook. “I created this character because I wanted Alice to come from another country and not speak Korean. For language reasons at first,” he said. “And then I realized it is a fantastic character, so I gave her conflict.” In answering a question about why he portrayed Korean Chinese people as victims of organ trafficking in the movie, Dercourt...
Han So-hee, Park Hyung-sik tell all about unrequited love in ‘Soundtrack#1’
Film
Mar 24, 2022
Global streaming platform Disney+ didn’t forget the romance as it went musical with its third Korean-language series, “Soundtrack#1.” Starring Han So-hee and Park Hyung-sik, the music drama revolves around two characters who have been best friends for 20 years, as their relationship changes in a romantic way. Taking the role of songwriter Lee Eun-soo, Han, 27, said that her character is a brigh...
Title of BIGBANG's upcoming release is 'Still Life,' says agency
K-pop
Mar 24, 2022
K-pop juggernaut BIGBANG will drop "Still Life," its first single in four years, next month, the group's management agency said Thursday. YG Entertainment also unveiled a teaser poster featuring white, pink, yellow and red daisies in full bloom for the highly anticipated song set to be out on April 5 at midnight. The four-piece group has announced that it will come back to the K-pop scene that ...
[From the Scene] ‘2022 Special Concert for World Peace’ presents hopes for world peace, harmony
Music
Mar 23, 2022
After the audience showed their appreciation for the veteran artist and his emotional performance, SPO performed the last piece of the night, “New World Symphony in Pops,” a reinterpretation of Dvorak’s “From the New World.” Applause filled the concert hall, bringing out “Hand in Hand,” the official song of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, as an encore. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the ...
[Today’s K-pop] Brave Girls thank fans with 6th EP
K-pop
Mar 23, 2022
Tomorrow X Together has joined the lineup of Summer Sonic 2022, one of the biggest music festivals in Japan. It has been canceled twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but is set to resume this year in August. TXT will perform in Osaka on Aug. 20 and in Tokyo on Aug. 21. The lineup includes British rock band the 1975 and American singer-songwriters Post Malone and Salem Ilese, as well as Japane...
[Herald Interview] Jung Woo says he was instinctively attracted to noir film ‘Hot Blooded’
Film
Mar 23, 2022
Without prompting, Jung alluded to negative reviews from film critics. The criticisms were mainly aimed at the film’s genre, Korean film noir, having a cliched storyline of two gangster groups fighting each other and the fact that the film featured only male protagonists. “I think people can have preferences over this genre of film. I will look into all the bad and good feedback concerning my fi...
Cellist Mischa Maisky and daughter to perform in Korea
Music
Mar 23, 2022
Cellist Mischa Maisky is coming back to South Korea for the first time in five years, with three recitals in April and May. The cellist will be accompanied by pianist Lily Maisky, who is also his daughter. Maisky and his daughter will kick off a three-concert series at Gunsan Arts Center in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province, on April 29. After performing at the Seoul Arts Center on May 1, the duo w...
[Herald Interview] Synergy of film and music drives DeVita’s musical soundtrack
K-pop
Mar 23, 2022
Singer‘s latest album takes inspiration from the films “American Beauty” and “Bonnie and Clyde”
BTS wins two prizes at iHeartRadio Music Awards
K-pop
Mar 23, 2022
South Korean boy group BTS has taken home two prizes from the iHeartRadio Music Awards, one of the American music industry's award shows. The septet won best music video for its 2021 megahit single "Butter" and best fan army for its international fandom ARMY during the awards ceremony held in Los Angeles on Tuesday (US time). It marks the third consecutive year for the group to win in the best ...
Fueled by ‘Adrenaline,’ Cravity hopes for new career-high with comeback
K-pop
Mar 22, 2022
Boy band Cravity dropped its latest album “Liberty: In Our Cosmos” on Tuesday, making a return to the music scene after a seven-month hiatus. Originally scheduled to be released on Feb. 22, the album was delayed after the whole group tested positive for COVID-19 just a few days prior. Ahead of the album’s release at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, the nine-member act conducted an online press conference live...
‘KCON 2022 Premiere’ to star 13 acts, including ‘Queendom 2’ teams
K-pop
Mar 22, 2022
KCON is back and live for the first time in two years, and the global K-pop festival will be featuring some of the biggest acts to celebrate the return of in-person concerts, including the six teams that will compete on the upcoming survival program “Queendom 2.” CJ ENM, the event’s organizer, on Tuesday announced the full line-up of performers set to hit the stage during the two-day “KCON 2022 ...
[Today’s K-pop] SHINee’s Onew to drop solo music: report
K-pop
Mar 22, 2022
Boy band T1419 released a song dedicated to its fans on Tuesday. The song is called “Edelweiss,” named after the band’s official fandom community and contains the bandmates‘ gratitude as well as their desire for making pure and precious memories, to reflect the flower’s symbolism. The nine-member act consists of five Korean and four Japanese members and debuted in January last year with t...
[Herald Interview] Seoul Pops Orchestra violinists Sergiy Salo and Olga Knyazeva seek to deliver message of world peace, harmony
Music
Mar 22, 2022
Ukrainian and Russian colleagues believe music, culture stronger than politics and war
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