Sandara Park, or Dara, former member of K-pop group 2NE1, said is looking forward to coming back to Cebu for a K-pop show. Dara, AB6IX, Viviz, Younite, 1MILLION and MB Crew will be performing at the “Awake: A New Beginning” show on Sept. 23 at the City Di Mare events grounds in South Road...
K-pop boy band Seventeen sold two million copies of their new album in one week to claim the status as a “double million seller.” Seventeen released the studio album “Face the Sun” on May 27 containing the nine songs including “Hot.” Topping Hanteo Chart's monthly album chart for May...
K-pop artist Lim Youngmin, who left boy band AB6IX after figuring in a drunk driving incident, was discharged from the military. He wrote a letter upon his completion of his military service on May 2 and apologized for the drunk driving incident. Lim Youngmin (Instagram) “Neither too slow nor too...
K-pop boy band ENHYPEN’s Sunoo has recovered from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while more Korean stars have tested positive. South Korea is experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases due to the highly contagious Omicron variant. On Feb. 16, Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that...
NCT (Twitter) K-pop boy band NCT grabbed first place on the monthly physical album chart in January with “Resonance Pt. 2.” According to South Korea’s Hanteo Chart, NCT’s “Resonance Pt. 2” Departure version sold 268,788 copies for the month of January to place first on the chart. The...
K-pop boy band Monsta X, girl group Mamamoo and WINNER’s Mino grabbed the first three places on the weekly album chart in the first week of November. Korea’s Hanteo Chart released the rankings for the weekly album chart covering the period Nov. 2 to 8. Monsta X’s new album “Fatal Love,”...
Due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, many in-person K-pop concerts and fan meetings were cancelled. To continue promoting Korean culture, Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) and Korea Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (KOFICE) have launched MOKKOJI...
(Clockwise from top left) EXO-SC, ATEEZ, Red Velvet’s Irene and Seulgi, SF9, GFriend, BLACKPINK, Stray Kids, Lee Jin-hyuk, AB6IX and Woodz (Twitter) South Korea’s Hanteo Chart released the list of artists who topped its monthly music chart for July. EXO-SC, composed of Sehun and Chanyeol, took...
