Winner of ‘Show Me The Money 10’ talks about winning hip-hop audition program, career and musical values

Fans of NCT will be able to enjoy the band’s 2020 concert at CGV cinemas across the country next month. The cinema chain announced Wednesday that it will bring “Beyond Live the Movie: NCT Resonance” to 30 screens on Jan. 12. For about two hours, all members of the band, excluding Taeyong who was absent due to health reasons, will perform as many as 27 songs from the live performance held Dec....

Entering ninth year in 2022, four-member act hopes to bask in belated music chart success

Boy band Treasure dropped hints for its soon-to-be-announced return in a video clip that was uploaded Tuesday. So Junghwan pressured Choi Hyunsuk to give out clues for a new song and the latter said that whoever listens to the song will be humming along. So agreed that it is very catchy before adding that he will rock the stage with performance. He then headed to the dance practice studio and...

Twice wraps up successful two-day concert, ready to kick off world tour in the US in February

We embarked on our journey to look for Super Tuna and guess what we found? Join us! By Team Konnect Kim Min-jung ( minjung.kim@heraldcorp.com ) Jung Ji-eun ( jungje@heraldcorp.com ) Choi Jeong-yoon ( jychoi@heraldcorp.com ) Kim Jeong-ryul ( ryul@heraldcorp.com )

Kim Yo-han of Wei will come back as a solo musician and put out an EP on Jan 10, agency We Entertainment said Monday. The EP is named “Illusion” and in the teaser trailer accompanying the news, he takes on the role of a villain, showing a dark side of him for the first time. Kim is part of the six-member boy group Wei, and also acts in the television drama “School 2021.”

Victon gifted fans a cover of IU’s “Merry Christmas in Advance” late Thursday. The six members, aside from leader Han Seung-woo who is currently serving in the military, remade the singer’s 2010 song while enjoying a Christmas party in the music video. Do Han-se added a rap that he wrote himself. In the meantime, the band will put out a new album in January, about a year after its first L...

SM Entertainment, a leading K-pop agency, formed a new supergroup Monday with seven of its top female artists. GOT the beat consists of diva BoA; Taeyeon and Hyoyeon of Girls' Generation; Seulgi and Wendy of Red Velvet and Karina and Winter of aespa. It is the first group formed under SM's broader project titled "Girls On Top (GOT)" for debuting new female units with leading artists managed by ...

South Korean girl group TWICE will hold two concerts at Tokyo Dome on April 23-24 as part of its ongoing world tour, the group's management agency said Monday. They will become the group's first performances in Japan since 2019, when it performed in seven big cities in the country as part of a world tour, according to JYP Entertainment. The new world tour titled "III" began with two concerts in...

In fear of a far-right government, Chilean K-pop fandoms joined forces to support Gabriel Boric using memes, fancams and light sticks

Suga, a member of K-pop superband BTS, has tested positive for the new coronavirus, his management agency said Friday. Suga was confirmed to have the virus in a polymerase chain reaction test after arriving in Seoul from the United States on Thursday, according to Big Hit Music. "Suga received his second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in late August," it said. "He has no special symptoms and is sta...

K-pop superband BTS has become the first international act to be best-selling artist of the year in Japan. According to the annual rankings released by Japanese music tracker Oricon on Friday, the septet placed No. 1 on the total sales by artist, based on the aggregated sales of albums, DVDs, online streamings and online singles. The company said BTS is the first non-Japanese artist to top the ...

According to the report, 36 artist groups are currently connected with fans via Weverse, with 23 new teams joining the community this year. It not only includes big name K-pop acts, such as Blackpink and Treasure, but also global artists, such as British pop trio New Hope Club. Around 16.8 million new fans signed up for membership this year, pushing the total number of accumulated users on Wever...

Veteran girl group Apink has finalized its plans to return as a whole unit, according to a local media report Thursday. All six bandmates, including Son Naeun who moved to YG Entertainment in June, were shooting a music video on the same day, according to the report, adding the group is set to come out with a new album in February. It has been almost two years since their previous album, ...