K-pop super group BTS delivered a performance of “Dynamite,” its latest smash-hit single, on the popular US talent competition show “America’s Got Talent.” The seven-member band presented a pre-recorded live performance of “Dynamite” on the weekly TV program, now in its 15th season, aired Monday (US time) on American television network NBC. The performance held...Read More
K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s single “Ice Cream” remained on Billboard’s main singles Hot 100 chart for the second week since its release. “Ice Cream,” featuring American pop singer Selena Gomez, finished at 49th on the latest Hot 100 chart after debuting at No. 13 last week, according to Billboard on Tuesday (US time). The Hot...Read More
While it has become common for songs from movie and drama soundtracks to hit the top of music charts, songs related to webtoon stories have not generally reached that level of recognition. That may no longer be the case. After its release in July 20, “Slightly Tipsy,” a song from the soundtrack of Daum Webtoon...Read More
South Korea reported an uptick in daily new infections of the novel coronavirus Thursday due to sporadic cluster outbreaks and untraceable cases. The country added 153 more COVID-19 cases, including 145 local infections, raising the total caseload to 22,657, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). The figure marks a sharp rise...Read More
Prosecutors on Tuesday demanded a two-year prison term for a private academy instructor who lied about his job and whereabouts after testing positive for COVID-19. The 24-year-old suspect tested positive on May 9 after visiting a club and an eatery that sells alcohol in the Seoul neighborhood of Itaewon. During an epidemiological survey, he lied...Read More
Quarantine authorities on Jeju Island are on high alert as nearly 200,000 tourists are expected to visit the southern resort island during the upcoming Chuseok holiday. The Jeju Tourism Association said Wednesday that at least 198,000 visitors are projected to come to the island during the extended Chuseok holiday, the Korean version of Thanksgiving, which...Read More
The group ‘BTS’ , the first Korean singer to reach No. 1 on the US Billboard main single chart for two weeks in a row, meets DJ Bae Chul-soo. According to MBC on the 11th, BTS will appear on MBC FM4U’Bae Chulsoo’s Music Camp’ (hereinafter’BaeCam’) on the 14th. ‘Baecam’ is a’pop-specialized’ radio program that has...Read More
The 25th Busan International Film Festival has been postponed two weeks and scaled down considerably as the new coronavirus cases continues to spike in number nationwide. The board members of the festival’s organizing committee on Friday afternoon held an extraordinary general meeting and decided to delay the festival two weeks from Oct. 7-16 to Oct....Read More
Celltrion Inc., a leading pharmaceutical firm in South Korea, said Friday that its coronavirus antibody treatment substance has shown treatment efficacy in clinical trials. CT-P59 has been administered to 32 healthy volunteers who have not contracted COVID-19 since July after receiving approval for phase one trials from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. It...Read More
Director Cho Il-hyung’s zombie thriller “#Alive” has become the most popular film in the world on Netflix, the first Korean title to achieve the feat. Just two days after premiering on Netflix on Sept. 8, “#Alive” topped the global chart of Top Movies on Netflix, according to FlixPatrol, which records daily updated video-on-demand charts for...Read More
