K-pop girl group Hello Venus is set to drop its new single in July. Ahead of the release, they posted two photos of members Alice and Lime on their official Twitter account. The pictures, in which the two gaze into the camera with colorful hair and nails, were taken at the same studio where they shot their new album cover. It has been six months since they released single “Wiggle Wiggle” in Ja...

K-pop boy band Big Bang ranked No.1 on major local music charts for the sixth consecutive day Monday with its latest track “If You.” Released on July 1, “If You” has topped the real-time K-pop chart of Melon, the largest online music service site in Korea. On the chart, fellow July release “Sober” followed in a close second place. The two songs -- which are part of the EP “D” -- are ranked ne...

Junsu of K-pop boy band JYJ is considering taking legal action against netizens who have made hateful comments against him in the past. The 28-year-old singer tweeted Sunday that he has recently received multiple requests from people through his personal email and his label’s legal team to take legal actions against online slander. “I have dealt with (hateful comments) for the past 10 yea...

Korean girl group 9 Muses will release a new album in early July, Star Empire Entertainment said Thursday. “(The girls) finished the new album jacket photo shoot,” said the agency. “The upcoming album will maximize summer’s seasonal characteristics and 9 Muses’ nickname ‘model-dolls.’” The girl group has gone through a series of member changes since its debut in 2010. It now has only eight memb...

EXO, the K-pop group currently topping domestic charts, sold over a million album copies in two months, recording the largest volume of sales in the shortest span of time for any K-pop act. The group reported on Wednesday accumulated sales of 1,125,020 copies with second regular EP “EXODUS” and its repackaged edition “Love Me Right,” which sold 753,860 and 371,160 copies respectively. EXO had p...

K-pop singer Taeyang, from the wildly successful boy group Big Bang, is in a relationship with actress Min Hyo-rin, both of their agencies confirmed Tuesday. Taeyang is believed to have started dating Min, who is two years older than him, in 2013. Taeyang, 27, is signed on to talent agency YG Entertainment, while Min is signed on to JYP Entertainment ― two of the most powerful record labels in ...

Newlyweds Won Bin and Lee Na-young on Tuesday denied rumors that the actress is pregnant. The actor couple tied the knot on May 30 in a private ceremony held near Won’s hometown in Gangwon Province. With two top stars getting married in such a secretive fashion, speculation rose that Lee may be pregnant. Lee and Won, however, denied the reports, emphasizing that the press release circulated af...

Twenty-eight years old and in the industry for nearly 15 years now, BoA reveals her true personality and musical styles in her latest album “Kiss My Lips.” In her eighth full-length album, released Tuesday, the pop diva sings smooth, pop-ballad songs with her signature soft-spoken vocals and bubble-gum love heartbreak lyrics and not so much of the heavy, upbeat dance tracks and hardcore choreogr...

South Korean pop singer Yoon Mi-rae and Sony Pictures Entertainment said Wednesday they have settled out of court their legal case involving the company's unauthorized use of Yoon's song in a movie. In December, Yoon's music agency, Feel Ghood Music, filed a suit with a U.S. court over the film company's illegal use of "Pay Day" in the American film "The Interview," a comedy movie about the assa...

K-pop star Psy narrowly escaped the deadly shooting rampage at a military training camp on Wednesday, local media reported. Psy’s agency said that “Psy had been at the Naegok-dong military training camp as a reservist.” According to the Army, a reservist “opened fire on his colleagues while receiving training at a military camp at around 10:44 a.m. today.” The reservist opened fire, killing one...

SM Entertainment has expressed its intent to mend a fractured relationship with Tao, a member of K-pop boy band EXO, amid rumors that the 22-year-old would quit the 10-member group. “Lately, we were in the middle of discussing with Tao and his father the possibility of continuing his music career in China, so we feel unfortunate that this kind of letter was posted online,” said EXO’s label SM En...

Yuri, a member of K-pop group Girls’ Generation, has been dating baseball player Oh Seung-hwan for six months, SM Entertainment confirmed Monday. “Yuri and Oh have developed romantic feelings for each other since they first met at a social gathering late last year,” the agency said through a press release. The confirmation came after a local weekly newspaper reported earlier in the day that Yur...