HyunA and E’Dawn signed with P Nation, a music label launched by Psy, the musician said Sunday. According to Psy’s Instagram posting, the two former Cube Entertainment artists have gotten on board with the “Gangnam Style” star’s nascent entertainment company. HyunA and E’Dawn left Cube Entertainment last year after getting heat from the label for publicizing their relationship. After her debut...

N of boy band VIXX will join South Korea’s armed forces on March 4 as part of the Army band. The VIXX vocalist and leader announced via the group’s official fan website on Saturday that he wanted to enlist without “making a big deal,” but decided he would “deliver the news (himself), as word spreads quickly.” He will serve as an active-duty soldier as part of his mandatory military service. All...

EXO’s hit “Ko Ko Bop” has garnered over 200 million views on YouTube, becoming the third video by the boy band to reach the milestone on the video-sharing platform. Dropped on July 18, 2017, the lead track off the group’s fourth studio album “The War” debuted at No. 87 on Billboard 200, marking the group’s second entry on the chart since “Exodus” in 2015. One of the most popular K-pop groups to...

South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Thursday that it will maintain its restrictions on travel to certain areas of the Philippines because of political instability, poor public security and terrorism. The ministry launched a subcommittee under the Passport Policy Deliberation Committee on Wednesday, which decided to maintain the travel ban on parts of Mindanao -- including th...

Boy band Astro announced Wednesday at midnight that it will be holding its third official fan meeting. In teaser images for the event, dubbed “The 3rd Astro Festival: Black,” Astro members are dressed in outfits inspired by the movie “Men in Black” Presale tickets are available from Jan. 28 at 8.pm., while general ticket sales begin at 8 p.m. Jan. 30. The event will take place on March 2 at the...

Big Hit Entertainment revealed Thursday the full lineup of its new boy band Tomorrow X Together, or TXT. With Soobin as the leader, the quintet comprises Yeonjun, Hueningkai, Taehyun and Beomgyu. A two-minute introductory clip featuring the group attracted over 2.5 million YouTube views 10 hours after its release on Wednesday midnight. TXT’s official Twitter account, also launched simultaneousl...

Tablo of Epik High made a surprise announcement of an upcoming album via a Twitter post. On Tuesday evening, Tablo congratulated singer Lee So-ra for her success on the music charts with single “Song Request,” featuring Suga of BTS. “Song Request,” co-written and penned by the 38-year-old rapper-songwriter, topped iTunes charts in 44 countries, including Hong Kong, Mexico, Brazil and Sweden, upo...

President Moon Jae-in has been named in Foreign Policy’s list of Top 100 Global Thinkers for the second year running. The 100 nominees were split into 10 groups, with Moon grouped under readers’ choice – a category chosen through online readers’ poll. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un also made the list in the “40 and under” category, spotlighting his accomplishment of fulfilling “a personal meet...

Twice has scheduled an additional show for its upcoming Japanese dome tour due to high demand, making it a three-city, five-show event, with a total audience size of 210,000. Representing the girl group, JYP Entertainment said Wednesday that Twice will hold an additional show on March 20 at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka in response to explosive ticket sales for previously scheduled shows. The nine-...

A former Unification Ministry official who leaked personal information about North Korean defectors living in South Korea was sentenced to six months in prison, two years of probation and a 15 million won fine on Tuesday. The 48-year-old, identified only by the surname Lee, was removed from office by the ministry in July 2017 for having passed on private information about North Korean defectors,...

Roh Tae-hyun of boy band Hotshot has unveiled the tracklist for his solo debut extended play, “biRTHday.” Representing the artist, Star Crew Entertainment released the list on its official social media pages. Roh participated in the songwriting process for all the songs on the EP, which is his first solo work, according to the agency. Fronted by a lead track of the same title, “biRTHday” includ...

JYP Publishing, a music publisher under JYP Entertainment, is searching for new songwriters via auditions. The entry requirement for the auditions includes a sample track for one of three JYP Entertainment artists: GOT7, Twice and Stray Kids. Submissions are being accepted through Feb. 18, and selected candidates from the first round will be eligible to participate in a two-day songwriting camp...

Black Pink held a two-day concert in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday and Sunday as part of the band’s ongoing international concert tour. The quartet entertained fans throughout each two-hour show with a series of hits from their early days such as “Boombayah,” “Whistle” and “Ddu-du Ddu-du.” The latter, released in June 2018, recently hit the 617 million views mark on YouTube, overtaking BTS’ “DN...

A brand new girl group called ITZY is debuting under JYP Entertainment, the first to do so since Twice made its debut in October 2015. JYP Entertainment released a teaser video titled “Prologue Film: ITZY? ITZY!” Sunday at midnight on the music label’s online channels YouTube, Naver TV and V Live. The 70-second video garnered 1.2 million views on YouTube as of Monday morning. The five-member ac...

Seventeen is releasing a new album this week, the first since its summer extended play “You Make My Day” in July. The 13-member group’s upcoming winter album “You Made My Dawn,” slated for release Monday, has been named one of Billboard’s 10 most highly anticipated K-pop albums of 2019 alongside Astro’s “All Light,” GFriend’s “Time For Us,” g.o.d’s “Then & Now” among others. “Home,” an urban fu...