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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 startups Global startup festival ComeUp to be held in December

The South Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced on Monday that it will host the global startup festival ComeUp 2024 at COEX, Seoul on Decem...

Food & Beverage HiteJinro sees annual soju exports to Cambodia grow 31%

HiteJinro Co., South Korea’s leading soju maker, resumed its Jinro EDM Festival at Cambodia’s Bon Om Tuk water festival after a four-y...

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...

Retail 11Street to host grand shopping festival in November

South Korea’s e-commerce platform 11Street Co. will hold its annual Grand 11 shopping festival from November 1 to 11. Since 2008, the company...

Automobiles Genesis sponsors Busan International Film Festival

Hyundai Motor Co.'s premium brand Genesis said on Friday that it will continue its sponsorship of the 29th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF),...

Culture & Trends Suwon Hwaseong Cultural Festival to be promoted as global event

The South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism said that the Suwon Hwaseong Cultural Festival, recently chosen as a Korea Representativ...

Electronics LG NOVA hosts Innovation Festival in US

LG Electronics Inc. 's North American Innovation Center (LG NOVA) said on Monday that it held an Innovation Festival last Wednesday and Thursday at ...

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...

Culture & Trends Korea to launch regular K-content festival in June

South Korea plans to host a regular event showcasing its cultural products such as K-pop and foods in June of next year with the goal of making the ...

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...

Retail Starfield launches 4th annual balloon festival with iconic character displays

Starfield, a chain of large shopping malls owned by Shinsegae, a South Korean retail company, announced on Friday that its 4th annual balloon festiv...

Electronics Samsung showcases The Freestyle Zone at camping festival

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Friday that it set up the experience zone for the portable screen The Freestyle Second Generation at the Go Out...

Food & Beverage Pepero enters Thailand’s King Power Duty Free

South Korea's Lotte Wellfood Co. announced on Friday that its thin chocolate-coated cookie sticks Pepero and no-sugar ice cream Zero entered King Po...

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 CJ ENM to hold KCON Hong Kong in March

South Korea’s entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co. announced on Thursday that it will hold its annual K-pop festival KCON in Hong Kong for the ...

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...

Electronics LG Elec unveils shoe care appliance at ComplexCon 2023

LG Electronics Inc. unveiled its dedicated shoe care appliance Styler Objet Collection ShoeCare and ShoeCase at ComplexCon 2023 in Long Beach, Calif...