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Celebrate New Year with Europe’s finest orchestras at local cinemas

Dec 15, 2020

Though the COVID-19 pandemic limits us from going to New Year celebration concerts, local cinema franchise Megabox will screen the recordings of the New Year celebration concerts by the Berlin Philha...
SPO comes up with 4-month plan for 2021

Dec 14, 2020

Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra releases season programs from January to April, coping with pandemic times
Kim Sun-wook’s performances rescheduled for January

Dec 12, 2020

Kim, Chung Kyung-wha will go onstage in Seongnam on Dec. 20, leaving two-thirds of seats empty
Rookie girl group NiziU tops Japan's weekly music chart with debut album

Dec 8, 2020

JYP Entertainment's new girl group NiziU has topped Japan's Oricon weekly music chart with its debut single album, the company said Tuesday. The nine-member group's album, "Step and a Step," ranked ...
Spike in COVID-19 cases puts S. Korean music industry on edge

Dec 8, 2020

Random cluster infections are breaking out across the country and the South Korean music industry is no exception from the new coronavirus. In most cases, infections have escalated into bigger cases...
Artists' voices re-created with AI

Dec 7, 2020

With the development of artificial intelligence and deep learning, things that were once impossible are now becoming possible, including re-creating the voices of deceased musical artists to sing con...
Pianist Kim Sun-wook’s recital canceled due to pandemic

Dec 4, 2020

Kim Sun-wook’s piano recital scheduled for Monday at the Lotte Concert Hall in Jamsil, eastern Seoul, has been canceled. Classical music concert organizer Vincero said the decision to indefinitely p...
W400m budget created for project to support Asian artists’ K-pop training

Dec 3, 2020

The National Assembly on Wednesday passed a budget of 400 million won ($365,000) for the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism’s project to support Asian artists’ K-pop training. The amount is far ...
Pianist Sunwoo Yekwon to give virtual reality tour of Lotte Concert Hall

Dec 2, 2020

Pianist Sunwoo Yekwon is planning to show the public around the Lotte Concert Hall in virtual reality. The Lotte Foundation for Arts and LG Uplus, a major local telecom operator, joined hands to pres...
Kim Sun-wook, Chung Kyung-wha duo to go onstage on Dec. 18

Nov 28, 2020

Third wave of COVID-19 puts performing art scene at unease
Pianist Cho Seung-jin’s encore recital canceled

Nov 25, 2020

Concert pianist Cho Seung-jin’s encore recital in Seoul slated for Saturday has been canceled, due to a resurgence in COVID-19 cases. Cho, the winner of the 2015 International Chopin Piano Competiti...
BTS gets Grammy nod in another landmark feat

Nov 25, 2020

WASHINGTON/SEOUL -- South Korea's K-pop megastar BTS was nominated for the Grammy Award in best pop duo/group performance, becoming the first South Korean pop artist to be nominated for the US music ...
Sunwoo Yekwon shares his ‘Mozart soul’ through new album

Nov 24, 2020

Though more often associated with the names of Romantic composers -- Chopin, Schumann and Schubert, for example -- pianist Sunwoo Yekwon hopes to share the Mozart side of himself through a new album....
Rock star Yoon Do-hyun clarifies COVID-19 rumors about Daegu concert

Nov 23, 2020

One concertgoer tests positive, 10 people in close proximity test negative
Chamber music gets a push

Nov 23, 2020

Lotte Concert Hall names Korean Chamber Orchestra, Esme Quartet inaugural in-house artists