The music video of the KPOP sensation group BTS’ “Boy With Luv” surpassed 100 million views with a new record for the shortest time in the world. The music video for “Boy With Luv” feat. Halsey, the title track of BTS’ new album “MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA,” released at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, topped 100 million views on YouTube in real-time. Get booking 2019 Super Concert It broke through 37 hours and 37 minutes after the release of the music video, the shortest time in the world. Previously, they set a record for the shortest time for a Korean singer, surpassing 10 million views in 2 hours and 52 minutes and 20 million views in 5 hours and 2 +
K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s management agency YG Entertainment is organizing a large scale ‘Kill This Love’ dance cover contest. On April 12, YG Entertainment took BLACKPINK’s Facebook to announce, “We will be holding a ‘Kill This Love’ dance cover contest for 16 days from April 15 until 30.” The agency +
Hollywood actress Emma Stone, who will host this week’s “Saturday Night Live,” has revealed her support of meteoric K-pop band BTS, which will appear on the TV show following its comeback. In a 1:20-minute teaser clip from American TV network +
K-pop sensation BTS has finally made its much-anticipated comeback with ‘MAP OF THE SOUL : PERSONA’. On April 12 at 6PM KST, BTS unveiled the full seven tracks of the album as well as the music video for the album’s +
Nash Ang, a Korea National University of Arts (K-Arts) student in a master’s program of filmmaking-directing, is planning Korea’s first Philippines film festival. In partnership agreements with the Filipino Embassy in Seoul and the city’s northern Seongbuk district that will +
There was a heavy snowfall in April in Taebaek, Gangwon Province. From yesterday afternoon until 11:00 a.m.(April 9), the amount of snow in Taebaek is 22.5 centimeters. This is the largest amount of snow that fell in April since the +
According to the Korea Entertainment Producers Association, “Dream Concert” will be held on May 18 at Seoul World Cup Stadium in Mapo-gu, Seoul, which will mark this year’s 25th. Since the 25th anniversary will be held this year, it is +
On Monday, K-pop superstars BTS released a teaser video for “Boy with Luv,” the main track of the band’s upcoming album “Map of the Soul: Persona,” featuring American singer and songwriter Halsey. Get booking 2019 Super Concert The 46-second video +
A large number of tourists flocked to the cherry blossom festival in Yunjung-ro, Yeouido, Seoul, to mark the weekend. Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, the “Spring Flower Festival in Yeouido, Yeongdeungpo, Seoul” will be held from April 5 to +
Three so-called peace trails around the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) from this month will be opened in three areas – the counties of Goseong-gun and Cheorwon-gun in Gangwon-do Province and the city of Paju in Gyeonggi-do Province – close to the +
The freelance photographer who takes candid photos of celebrity is called paparazzi. These days, however, a Korean-style paparazzi photographer who looks like them and doesn’t seem to be is rising in Korea. Their modality is like paparazzi in terms of sneaking, but not paparazzi in terms of taking money in +
The 2018 Melon Music Awards celebrated its 10th anniversary this year and the award ceremony will take place at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on December 1. Also, although no official lineup has been made public yet, speculations have been made that a full-time lineup is expected as it marks +
When BTS debuted in 2013, the band members identified Big Bang as their role models. Now the band that started from scratch as a team of passionate rookies has grown into the most successful K-pop act to date, and it’s paving the way for today’s up-and-coming artists. Given that impressive +
An official teaser video of the “2018 Asia Artist Awards” has released. The 2018 AAA, which will be held on November 28, is the world’s first singer and actor awards ceremony. The ‘2018 AAA’, which marks its third anniversary in 2016 and 2017, will hold a festival with the brightest +
Twice’s Halloween fan event at Yonsei University’s outdoor concert arena on Sunday was a success, to say the least. Photos of the event have been popping up on Twitter, showing Twice singing and dancing in Halloween costumes. The al fresco concert space at Yonsei University in Sinchon, Seoul, has capacity +
On the 10th anniversary of the Seoul Lantern Festival 2018, a 17-day festival will take place at Cheonggyecheon Stream (1.2km between Cheonggye Plaza and Supyo Bridge). The Seoul Lantern Festival 2018 will feature the Cheonggyecheon area in Seoul under the slogan ‘Seoul Dream, Flowing Light’ to reflect on the past +
As the cold spell begins, ski resorts in Gangwon Province will open their slopes as early as next week and start the season. As the lowest temperature in the morning of Daegwanryeong showed winter weather such as minus 4.5 degrees Celsius, ski resorts in Jeongseon and Pyeongchang started operating snowmaking +
Mixed-gender group KARD (Jeon So-min, BM, Jeon Ji-woo, J.Seph) and solo artist Chung Ha will wow audiences with their stylish performances from the 2018 Asia Artist Awards. BTS, Wanna One, GOT7, iKON, TWICE and more… “2018 Asia Artist Awards” (director Park Joon-chul) is the world’s first singer and actor awards +
After a quick stop at Insadong, off we go to Bukchon Hanok Village. We walked several block to go there. Yup, it was another walkathon for us! Once you are near the village there are several tourist assistance people who can guide on where to go when exploring the village. +
It’s a perfect autumn day for the picnic. Nothing is so good as maple to smell the autumn. It is difficult to get to the streets of the national park and to get to the foliage in the nearby city. There is Nami Island near Seoul, a suitable place to +
The Koreas and the U.S.-led U.N. Command have finished their two-day work to verify the disarmament of the Joint Security Area (JSA) in the Demilitarized Zone, Seoul’s defense ministry said Sunday. They conducted the joint verification work Friday and Saturday following the Koreas’ 20-day land mine clearance operations and then +
Daeryong Market, the one and only major market located in the center of Gyodong Island, is a place where time has stopped. Like a broken old chiming wall clock, time has stopped at somewhere between the 1960s and 1970s. Walking through the marketplace, those small old slate-roofed shops selling popular +
