K-pop boy band Treasure set a personal best for their upcoming new album “The Second Step: Chapter One.” According to YG Entertainment, the group’s agency, on Jan. 20, “The Second Step: Chapter One” exceeded 600,000 copies in pre-orders in eight days since the reservation started on Jan....
When a horrifying 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Bohol on October 15, 2013, the province’s centuries-old heritage churches collapsed, including one of the oldest and largest in the town of Loon — the Nuestra Señora de la Luz parish or Simbahan ng Birhen sa Kasilak (The Church of Our Lady of...
Treasure members Junghwan (left) and Doyoung (Twitter) K-pop boy band Treasure members Doyoung, 17, and Junghwan, 16, have recovered from coronavirus disease (COVID-19). “We inform you that Treasure members Doyoung and So Junghwan have fully recovered from COVID-19,” said YG Entertainment,...
BTOB’s Lee Min-hyuk (left) and trot singer Jang Minho (Instagram) Two more Korean celebrities have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as the entertainment industry in South Korea grapples with the increase in the number of cases. K-pop boy band BTOB member Lee Min-hyuk has...
(Clockwise from top left) Treasure’s Doyoung and So Jung-hwan, model Han Hye-jin, Olympic gold medalist Park Tae-hwan and former volleyball star Kim Yo-han (Instagram, KBS) More Korean celebrities have tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as South Korea is trying to control the...
Treasure (top) and aespa (Twitter / SBS) Global K-pop fans have voted Treasure and aespa as the best rookie groups in the first half of 2021. The global K-pop fandom platform “Whosfan” held a global poll from July 6 to 12 on the topic “2021 First Half-Year Voting : Who is the best/female male...
Treasure’s Doyoung The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to disrupt the entertainment industry in South Korea. On July 13, YG Entertainment announced that Doyoung, 17, part of the 12-member K-pop boy band Treasure, has tested positive for COVID-19, the latest Korean celebrity to get the...
(Clockwise from top) BTS, ATEEZ and NCT Dream (Twitter) Hanteo Chart, which tracks album and song sales in Korea, released the “Hanteo Global K-pop Report: 2021 Semi-annual Summary” covering the first half of the year. In its Global Index of K-pop report, Hanteo Chart released the...
The old La Loma Cemetery Chapel is a National Cultural Treasure, the highest designation given to a valuable cultural asset. As such, it has unique value and has been demmed possessing outstanding historical, cultural, artistic, and scientific value, which is highly significant and important to the...
(Clockwise from top left) BTS, NCT, Seventeen, Highlight, SHINee and EXO (Twitter, Big Hit Music, SM Entertainment) BTS, NCT, Seventeen, Highlight, SHINee and EXO became the most talked about K-pop boy bands for the month of May. The Korea Corporate Research Institute released on May 8...
Kim Rodriguez made huge noise on social media recently uploading several photos of her in a bikini. View this post on Instagram While there are those who commended her effort, there are some who thought it unbecoming. Apparently, many thought it preposterous for the actress to climb a mountain...
(Clockwise from top left) BTS, NCT, EXO, BLACKPINK, GOT7 and Treasure (Twitter) The Philippines ranked fifth in the world with the most K-pop fans and placed fourth among countries with the most tweets related to K-pop in 2020, according to Twitter. Twitter revealed its #KpopTwitter 2020 list,...
