K-pop boy band Treasure sold nearly 181,000 copies of their new album “The Second Step: Chapter One.” Treasure released the album on Feb. 15 and according to YG Entertainment, it topped the iTunes Top Albums chart in 30 countries and territories including Japan, Spain, Canada, Australia,...
K-pop boy band Treasure, composed of 12 members, made their comeback in a little over a year, releasing their new album “The Second Step: Chapter One” on Feb. 15. The album is fronted by the song “Jikjin” (a Korean word which means “go straight”), a hip-hop song described as a track...
“The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure,” starring Kang Ha-neul and Han Hyo-joo, set a record by becoming the first movie to sell one million tickets among all films released in South Korea this year. The adventure movie also stars Lee Kwang-soo, Kwon Sang-woo, EXO’s Sehun, Chae Soo-bin,, Kim...
Five members of K-pop boy band The Boyz have recovered from coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The group’s agency IST Entertainment announced on Feb. 6 that The Boyz’s Eric, Younghoon, Hyunjae, Ju Haknyeon and Sangyeon have been released from quarantine as ordered by health authorities. “We...
Actor Jung Il-woo, K-pop boy band P1Harmony's Intak and more Korean stars have tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as the highly contagious Omicron variant continues to infect thousands of people in South Korea. Health authorities have declared that the Omicron variant is now the...
K-pop stars who tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the last two weeks have recovered but new cases have been confirmed as the highly contagious Omicron variant continues to infect people in South Korea. YG Entertainment announced on Feb. 3 that the five members iKON, four members...
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) has declared National Artist Ang Kiukok's "Men At Work" as National Cultural Treasure and Important Cultural Property as a tribute to the Filipino workforce. Men at Work (1979) (Photo courtesy of National Commission for Culture and the Arts)...
There are now at least 26 K-pop idols who have tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the last nine days as South Korea grapples to stem the surge in daily cases due to the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant. On Jan. 27, Korean health authorities recorded 14,158 new...
K-pop boy band The Boyz’s Younghoon, former Sistar member Hyolyn and WEi’s Kim Dong-han, Yoo Yong-ha and Kang Seok-hwa tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as South Korea tallied 13,102 new cases on Jan. 26, the highest daily total since the pandemic started in 2020. (Clockwise...
Two more K-pop idols managed by YG Entertainment agency have tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as the Korean entertainment industry is experiencing a rise in cases. YG Entertainment announced that iKON’s Ju-ne (real name: Koo Jun-hoe) and Treasure’s Yoshi, 21, on Jan. 25 have...
What you wear can take you from here to there, backward, forward, into the center of now, or anywhere you want. The year is young, still new and, if you follow the Lunar Calendar, you have more than a whole new year ahead of you. What are you wearing? Where are you headed? Go far and go fast. Jump!...
Music research and analytics platform Viberate published its annual “State of Music” report, highlighting the artists that dominated social media and music apps in 2021 and the trends that will be hot in 2022. Viberate analyzed massive amounts of data (more than a trillion data points,...
