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Arts Maybe Happy Ending: A robot love story that rewrote Broadway playbook

On an unremarkable evening in November 2024, inside the opulent Belasco Theatre in Manhattan, something quietly historic was taking place.A delicate...

K-pop KAIST launches Korean rapper G-Dragon’s music into space

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) has launched the music and iris image of G-Dragon, a Korean rapper and singer-songw...

K-pop K-pop exports boom as end of Chinese K-wave ban looms large

Exports of Korean popular music, or K-pop, have seen a significant surge in recent months, driven by increasing demand from China and Japan, accordi...

Korean games Nexon to release The First Berserker: Khazan in China

South Korea’s online game developer Nexon Korea Corp. said on Monday it signed a deal with China's Tencent Games to publish its new action rol...

K-pop Rose’s music video ‘APT.’ surpasses 300 mn views on YouTube

The music video for “APT.”, featuring girl group Blackpink's Rose in a duet with pop star Bruno Mars, has surpassed 300 million views on...

Korean startups Jay-Z’s Roc Nation to invest $5 mn in S.Korea’s Musicow  

US entertainment tycoon Jay-Z’s Roc Nation is expected to invest about $5 million in Musicow Inc., South Korea’s music copyright trading...

K-pop Blackpink Rosé’s APT. debuts at No. 8 on Billboard Hot 100

Blackpink Rosé's single APT. has debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, according to the music magazine Billboard on Tuesday.With the tit...

Culture & Trends Vinyl renaissance in Korea holds steady with diverse music tastes

Within just two hours of the opening of the 13th Seoul Record Fair last Saturday, the waitlist for new LP records reached 1,500. There were 20 new r...

K-pop Stray Kids to perform at 50th American Music Awards

K-Pop boy band Stray Kids will perform at the American Music Awards, a major music awards show in the United States.The American Music Awards announ...

Artificial intelligence LG Uplus, SM Entertainment to launch AI Idols

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. said on Sunday that it will team up with SM Entertainment Co. to develop content using generative artificial intellig...

K-pop NewJeans surpasses 5 billion cumulative Spotify streams

K-pop girl group NewJeans has surpassed five billion combined streams on Spotify, the world's largest music platform, its agency, Adore, announced o...

Tech, Media & Telecom KT launches Genie TV Tab 3

South Korea's KT Corp. launched the tablet-type Internet TV device Genie TV Tab 3 on Thursday.The Genie TV Tab 3 can be used to watch live channels ...

Korean games Tencent-backed Shift Up to raise up to $313 mn in IPO

Shift Up Corp., the South Korean game developer behind the global hit game “Goddess of Victory: Nikke,” could raise up to 435 billion wo...

Automobiles Innocean produces Hyundai Motor ad using GenAI

Innocean Worldwide Inc., the global marketing communications arm of Hyundai Motor Group, said on Friday that it launched three new digital campaigns...

Korean games Pearl Abyss, Tencent to release Black Desert in China

South Korea's game developer and publisher Pearl Abyss Corp. announced on Wednesday that it's preparing to launch its cross-platform MMORPG Black De...

IPOs Tencent-backed Shift Up seeks June IPO at $2.6 bn value

South Korean gaming firm Shift Up Corp. is eyeing an initial public offering on the main Kospi in June, with an enterprise value of 3.48 trillion wo...

K-pop Universal Music acquires 10-year distribution rights to HYBE music

The world’s largest music company Universal Music Group (UMG) has struck an exclusive deal to distribute music from HYBE Co., the South Korean...

K-pop BTS agency HYBE logs record sales backed by albums, concerts

HYBE Co., the agency behind K-pop sensation BTS, last year logged the highest-ever annual revenue for a South Korean entertainment company, backed b...

Electronics Samsung to release pianist Seong-Jin Cho’s 8K video

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it will release the worldwide famous pianist Seong-Jin Cho’s live performance video in 8K...

Korean startups Korea’s next tech wave in music to mushroom culture  

Investors on the hunt for the next big thing in South Korea explored the country’s next wave of technology at this year’s first demo day...

K-pop Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ surpasses 5 billion views on Youtube

The music video for singer Psy's global hit "Gangnam Style" has surpassed 5 billion views on YouTube.According to YouTube on Saturday, the music vid...

Tech, Media & Telecom Samsung’s Harman ups ante in home audio market with Roon

Harman International has taken over Roon Labs, the multi-device and multi-room audio technology company popular among audiophiles for its streaming ...

Entertainment SM Entertainment invests in tech startup, music label

K-pop powerhouse SM Entertainment Co. invested 1 billion won ($774,353) in a local app development startup valued at 20 billion won in June 2022 via...

Tech, Media & Telecom KT, Hyundai Livart to pursue DX in home interior

South Korea’s KT Corp. and furniture and interior company Hyundai Livart Furniture are pursuing Premium Interior Digital Transformation (DX), ...

Entertainment CJ ENM launches AI sound source service

South Korean entertainment giant CJ ENM Co. introduced "Viodio: CJ ENM Air," an AI sound source service that makes it easy to utilize AI-generated m...

Entertainment Creator of Baby Shark, Pinkfong to launch music variety show

The lovable children’s characters Pinkfong and Baby Shark will soon star in a music variety show for their legions of global fans.The Pinkfong...

Economy Korea logs surplus in IP trade in H1 on surge of culture, art

South Korea posted a surplus in its intellectual property (IP) rights trade in the first half of this year, thanks to profits on culture, art and so...

K-pop All seven BTS members to renew contracts with HYBE

All seven members of BTS are set to renew contracts with their current label HYBE Co. for the second time, allowing their fans across the world to e...

K-pop BTS’ ‘Boy With Luv’ surpasses 1.7 billion YouTube views

The number of YouTube views of the group BTS' "Boy With Luv" music video exceeded 1.7 billion, the agency Big Hit Music said on Tuesday.The music vi...

Automobiles LG Uplus to equip Toyota Highlander’s infotainment platform

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. announced on Friday its strategy to outfit Toyota's Highlander, a seven-seater SUV, with Toyota Connect, powered by t...