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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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S. Korea calls on Japan to confront history amid Yasukuni Shrine visit
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Yoon’s jailed mother-in-law excluded from latest parole list
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Hybe and Min Hee-jin, CEO of Hybe sublabel Ador, lock horns
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[Pressure points] Leggings in public: Fashion statement or social faux pas?
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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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Aging population to drive down Korea's housing prices from 2040: experts
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Over-50s, men, single-person households take up majority of those filing for bankruptcy
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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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[Today’s K-pop] BTS’ J-Hope to unveil album, documentary next month
J-Hope of BTS will drop a special solo album on March 29 along with a documentary film, said label Big Hit Music on Monday. As the title “Hope on the Street Vol. 1” suggests, the six-track album is themed after street dance, which the main dancer of the band harks back on. A series of the same title also will be rolled out on the day before, starting with the first episode from the total of six. Shot before he enlisted in April last year, the series follows the artist across the wo
K-popFeb. 19, 2024
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Photo of RM with saxophone in military band goes viral
Even while serving in the South Korean military, global K-pop star RM of BTS remains in the public eye. On Thursday, a photo of him in a red military band uniform, holding a saxophone, went viral on X, formerly known as Twitter. As of Monday, the photo had garnered over 20,000 likes and 4,000 reposts. The viral post said, "I received a photo of Nam-joon (better known as RM) from an acquaintance who attended the military's basic training completion ceremony." The ceremony is only o
K-popFeb. 19, 2024
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NCT Dream, Seventeen, Stray Kids, and Ive win grand prizes at Hanteo Music Awards
The 31st Hanteo Music Awards’ four grand prizes — Best Artist, Best Album, Best Performance and Best Song, went to NCT Dream, Seventeen, Stray Kids and Ive, respectively, on Sunday, the last day of the two-day event held in Seoul. NCT Dream bagged the Best Artist award for showing outstanding musical ability and powerful influence in the music industry. Only Mark, Jaemin and Chenle of NCT Dream attended the event, as other members of the group were working on the group’s upcomi
K-popFeb. 19, 2024
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TWS goes global through partnership with Geffen Records, Virgin Music
TWS is going global by partnering with the world’s leading music company Universal Music Group (UMG) labels in the US and Japan. According to TWS' agency Pledis Entertainment, a six-member boy band inked a partnership with UMG’s Geffen Records for its group promotion in the US and with Virgin Music under Universal Music Japan for its group promotion in Japan. Through this partnership, TWS will receive support from the above labels to promote and distribute its albums in the US a
K-popFeb. 18, 2024
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J-Hope of BTS to introduce new project ‘Hope on the Street’ in March
J-Hope of BTS is presenting a new project in March. He dropped a teaser clip of the upcoming project, “Hope on the Street” on BTS’ official YouTube channel Sunday, a day before his birthday. The clip begins with J-Hope, who is the main dancer of BTS, working on his performance at a dance studio back in 2015. The clip then fast forwards to 2024, and J-Hope appears dancing to a beat with a night view of a city in the background. “J-Hope came up with his own idea for this pr
K-popFeb. 18, 2024
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[Today’s K-pop] TXT will be back in April: report
Tomorrow X Together will make a comeback in April, according to a local media report on Friday. The band’s latest album was its third studio album “The Name Chapter: Freefall” that sold over 2.25 million copies in the first week when it came out in October last year and entered Billboard 200 at No. 3. The album stayed on the main albums chart for seven weeks in a row and reentered in the first week of January. The members told fans last month at an awards ceremony that they h
K-popFeb. 16, 2024
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[Today’s K-pop] NCT Wish to meet Korean fans for 1st time
NCT Wish will take the stage as part of a concert in Seoul for the first time on March 4, announced label SM Entertainment on Thursday. The band of six members are set to debut on Feb. 21, at the label’s all-star concert that will be held at Tokyo Dome. They will drop debut single “Wish” on Feb. 28 and the titular track will be included in the set list for the Seoul gig, dubbed “NCT Wish’s Wishlist.” The bandmates will also talk about their preparations for
K-popFeb. 15, 2024
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YG, Japanese agency to hold auditions together for the first time in 8 years
YG Entertainment will hold an open audition in cooperation with Japanese entertainment company Avex, the first joint audition held by the two companies in about eight years since the "Younguns Audition" in 2016. The YG x Avex Audition 2024 will be held in seven major Japanese cities, kicking off in Sapporo on April 7. The other cities include Nagoya, Fukuoka, Osaka, Tokyo, Sendai and Okinawa. Those born between April 2, 2003, and April 1, 2013, are eligible to apply, regardless of thei
K-popFeb. 15, 2024
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[Exclusive] Epik High to hold concert at Inspire next month
Epik High is set to hold its first concert of the year next month. The group is holding a standalone concert on March 16 at the Inspire Arena, according to an industry insider. The concert comes three months after the hip-hop trio’s 20th-anniversary concert at the SK Olympic Handball Arena in Seoul on Dec. 15-17. The trio was also on a world tour titled “All Time High Tour” last year, performing in 36 cities in seven countries in Asia, Europe and North America. Epik High debute
K-popFeb. 15, 2024
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[Today’s K-pop] (G)I-dle logs 300m views with ‘Tomboy,’ ‘Queencard’ videos
(G)I-dle garnered 300 million views each with the music videos for “Tomboy” and “Queencard,” according to agency Cube Entertainment on Wednesday. The music video for “Tomboy” reached the milestone on Feb. 7, becoming the group’s first to achieve the feat. Queencard” followed four days later. “Tomboy” is the main track from the group's first studio album “I Never Die” from 2022 and “Queencard” fronted its s
K-popFeb. 14, 2024
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Jennie, Jungkook climb back up Billboard charts
Jennie of Blackpink and Jungkook of BTS are climbing back up Billboard’s main album and single charts. According to Billboard, the song “One Of The Girls” by Jennie, Lily-Rose Depp and The Weeknd rose to a new peak of No. 57, up from No. 58 the previous week, on Billboard’s Hot 100 dated Feb. 17. “One Of The Girls” is one of the original soundtracks of the HBO series “The Idol,” in which Jennie starred. This makes Jennie the first female K-pop solo
K-popFeb. 14, 2024
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Ten of NCT debuts solo with first EP 'Ten’
From Latin pop to hip-hop, Ten of NCT challenged himself with diverse music genres for his first official solo album, “Ten,” released on Tuesday. “I’ve waited for this moment for so long. I put my own ideas, including the album concept, into this album after thorough and continuous discussion with the staff of my agency. So, I was able to enjoy every process of coming up with this solo album,” said Ten when introducing his first EP during a press conference in Seoul
K-popFeb. 13, 2024
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[Today’s K-pop] Stray Kids to meet fans in Seoul next month
Stray Kids will host a fan meetup in Seoul on March 29-31, announced label JYP Entertainment on Tuesday. The eight-member act’s fourth official fan meet is named “Magic School,” and the last day’s show will be broadcast online as well. It take place about nine months since the group's previous fan meeting. Meanwhile, the band is shortlisted for “Group/Duo of the Year” by the People’s Choice Awards that will be announced on Feb. 18 in the US. It al
K-popFeb. 13, 2024
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Tang Wei stars in music video for IU’s upcoming single
Chinese actress Tang Wei will star in a music video for the singer-songwriter and actress IU’s upcoming album. Tang will appear in the music video of the side B track, “Shh…” in IU’s sixth mini album, “The Winning,” according to Edam Entertainment. In the teaser for the music video, released on YouTube Tuesday, Tang Wei appears inside a car leaning her face against the steering wheel and gazing out the window. The screen then turns black and white, and
K-popFeb. 13, 2024
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Ambitious rookies to unveil new albums in February
Several rookie boy groups who have debuted less than a year ago are making a comeback in February. The 10-member group n.SSign, which debuted in August last year, will return with a second mini album, "Happy &," on Feb. 15. The group has successfully kicked off their overseas career, holding three solo concerts at Ariake Arena in Tokyo even before their official debut. In the pre-released concept photos, the members wear boyish outfits with vivid colors, expressing playful energy.
K-popFeb. 10, 2024
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[Today’s K-pop] Blackpink’s Lisa sets up own company
Lisa of Blackpink announced Thursday that she is establishing her own label, Lloud. With a photograph of herself wearing an androgynous suit, she wrote that it is a platform through which she will be able to showcase her vision for music and entertainment and asked fans to join the exciting journey that will navigate across new boundaries. She set her fans abuzz the previous day with a post that only said “Coming Soon.” The four members of the superstar group decided to let YG
K-popFeb. 8, 2024
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SM to debut British K-pop boy group
K-pop powerhouse SM Entertainment is set to debut four new K-pop acts including NCT Wish this year. The frontrunner is NCT Wish which is to debut at the label concert, “SMTown Live,” slated to be held at the Tokyo Dome in Japan on Feb. 21, according to SM Entertainment on Thursday. NCT Wish is the last subunit of NCT. Other subunits include NCT U, NCT 127, NCT Dream and WayV. SM also plans to launch a new girl group, its first virtual artist naevis known as aespa’s Kwangya help
K-popFeb. 8, 2024
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Fifty Fifty to return with new members in June
K-pop girl group Fifty Fifty is set to start anew with new members joining Keena in June. “We’ve started reorganizing Fifty Fifty around Keena. The lineup will be confirmed in April and the group will release a new single in June,” announced Attrakt, the agency representing Fifty Fifty, in a press release Thursday. Fifty Fifty debuted as a quartet with Keena, Aran, Sio and Saena in November 2022. But Aran, Sio and Saena left the group as Attrakt terminated its exclusive contrac
K-popFeb. 8, 2024
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[Today’s K-pop] Enhypen encore in US
Enhypen will return to the US for encore tour Fate Plus, agency Belift Lab announced on Wednesday. The seven members will visit five cities in the country, starting in Anaheim, California on April 24. They will head over to Oakland; Tacoma, Washington; and Rosemont, Illinois before wrapping up the stateside leg at Belmont Park in San Diego on May 3. They are returning to the US about seven months after they went live in six cities for the “Fate” tour. The final des
K-popFeb. 7, 2024
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Is Shinsegae scion debuting as girl group member?
Some photos of possible members to debut as a K-pop girl group under The Black Label went viral early this week, leading the agency to announce they are launching a girl group in the first half of this year. Among those in the leaked photos was Moon Seo-yoon, a granddaughter of Shinsegae Group Chairwoman Lee Myung-hee and the eldest daughter of Chung Yoo-kyung, president of Shinsegae’s department store business. In the photo, she is seen posing with other girls including actress and model
K-popFeb. 7, 2024