Choi Byungchan of Victon will greet his fans at his first solo fan meeting event in Japan, said agency New Way Company on Wednesday. He will hold two fan meetings, titled “Picnic – Always With You,” in Tokyo on July 1. The news comes two days after the agency announced that it has signed with the singer and actor. Choi debuted as a member of Victon in 2016 and has branched into acting, appearin...

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Mamamoo will hold three encore concerts in Seoul as part of its first world tour, “My Con," from June 16-18 at SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium. The encore concerts are to wrap up Mamamoo's world tour that has taken the quartet to nine cities in Asia and nine cities in the US beginning from November last year. Ahead of the encore gigs, Mamamoo unveiled a cinematic teaser clip with Wheein walking i...

Singer Jay Park is set to drop a new single “Candy” next Tuesday. He announced the comeback by unveiling teaser content through his agency More Vision’s official social media account on Wednesday. The teaser image shows pieces of candy with “JAY PARK Flavor” written on their wrappers. The upcoming single “Candy” was produced by the renowned Cha Cha Malone and features singer Zion.T. All eyes ...

Beethoven's beloved Symphony No. 9 has found itself at the center of controversy in South Korea in recent weeks. Earlier this month, a Korean-language version of Beethoven's masterpiece was performed for the first time at the Seoul Arts Center on May 7. The performance was led by conductor Koo Ja-bom, who said the symphony was the reason he became a conductor, but that he had refrained from con...

Cho, who was also a film journalist, served as the secretary general of the Busan Film Commission and a director of the Korean Film Council. Following Huh‘s resignation, Lee, a founding member of BIFF in 1996 who has been the BIFF chairperson since 2018, said Monday he would step down after “quickly wrapping up the current situation.” “We see Huh’s return to the committee as the only solution t...

Boy band Cravity will officially debut in Japan on July 5 with the single “Groovy – Japanese Ver.,” it announced in an interview on a Japanese TV morning show on Tuesday. It will fronted by the Japanese-language version of the main track from the fifth EP “Master:Piece,” and will also include its first original Japanese song, “I Can’t Fight the Feeling.” The bandmates will greet their fans in pe...

Meanwhile, Tving has granted licenses and exported program formats of its popular shows such as as “Yumi’s Cells,” “Zero Sum Game,” “Work Later, Drink Now” and more.

The third-generation K-pop girl group Twice continues to be loved by many in Japan. Last weekend, Twice became the first K-pop girl group to hold a concert at a stadium in Japan. Tickets to the nine-member group’s two-day concert at the Yanmar Stadium in Osaka, Japan were sold out. These gigs were part of the Japanese leg of Twice's world tour “Ready to Be.” Next up are the act’s gigs at the ...

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K-pop rock band N.Flying is celebrating its eighth anniversary with a new single devoted to its fans. FNC Entertainment, the group's management, announced Tuesday that N.Flying will release a digital single, "Once in a Blue Moon," on Saturday. According to the agency, the new single embodies the band's wish to stay in this moment forever with its fans, watching the blue moon, a term poetically ...

(G)I-dle has returned with a new album to deliver the message that those who are filled with self-esteem are the ones who look truly beautiful to others. The five-piece group released its sixth mini album “I Feel” on Monday, seven months after the group's last release. The girls took on a new challenge to dramatize the album through tracks that develop around one single story in which each memb...

K-pop girl group Fromis_9 will kick off the summer with its first full-length album, "Unlock My World." The act's agency, Pledis Entertainment, on Tuesday announced Fromis_9 is dropping its first LP, "Unlock My World," on June 5. The new album will mark the return of the eight-piece group after almost a year since the release of its fifth EP, "From Our Memento Box," in June. This is the group'...

NCT Dream will go live one more time in Seoul on June 1, said label SM Entertainment on Monday. It was set to hold two encore concerts in Seoul on June 2-3, as part of its second international tour “The Dream Show 2: In Your Dream,” but decided to add one after all tickets sold out fast. The seven-piece act is in the middle of the tour that brought them across North America, Europe and Asia sin...