British Embassy to open doors to public during cultural festival next month
“Welcome to our embassy,” greeted Colin Crooks, the British ambassador to South Korea, in fluent Korean on Monday as he led a preliminary tour of the legation and the ambassador’s residence in a neighborhood in Seoul steeped in the country’s early mod…
VETERAN ACTRESS MEK HABSAH DIES
Veteran actress Mek Habsah, whose real name is Habshah Bakar, died at the Institute of Respiratory Medicine Kuala Lumpur at 2.45 am today. She was 67.
Her grandson, Huraimi Hilman, who confirmed the news to Bernama, said Mek Habsah had suffered from…
(Yonhap Interview) S. Korean streamers still have chances to catch up with Netflix: expert
South Korea’s homegrown streaming service operators, like Tving and Wavve, can compete with global media giant Netflix in the local market as long as they have effective plans to deal with rising production costs and viewers’ changing preferences, a …
BTS V’s ‘Layover’ sells over 1.67 mln copies on debut day, record for K-pop soloist
The debut solo album by V, a member of K-pop supergroup BTS, sold about 1.67 million copies on the day of its release, breaking the first-day sales record for K-pop soloists, data showed Saturday.According to the data from Hanteo Chart, a leading loca…
BTS’ Jungkook to headline 2023 Global Citizen Festival
Jungkook, a member of K-pop juggernaut BTS, will headline 2023 Global Citizen Festival, a large-scale U.S. charity concert set to be held this month, the group’s agency said Thursday, citing the festival’s official social media accounts.
The Global …
Riize debuts as SM Entertainment’s new boy group
Riize, the first newbie boy group from SM Entertainment in seven years, made its debut Monday with its first single, “Get a Guitar.”Riize is the first idol group that has been launched by SM in three years, since girl group aespa in 2020, and the firs…
BLACKPINK nominated in 6 categories, Tomorrow X Together in 4 at MTV VMA 2023
South Korean girl group BLACKPINK has secured six nominations at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, alongside other K-pop bands that have also received nominations, according to the U.S. TV station.According to a list of nominees announced by MTV on …