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  • BTS makes 3rd debut Billboard Hot 100 on top

    BTS makes 3rd debut Billboard Hot 100 on top K-pop supergroup BTS has achieved another historic milestone, landing at No. 1 on the Billboard’s main singles chart with its latest single, “Butter.” “BTS’ “Butter” bounds in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart,” Billboard said Tuesday (U.S. time), citing figures from MRC Data showing how the song drew 32.2 million streams and sold 242,800 downloads in the week ending May 27. 아아아아악! 감사합니다 아미! pic.twitter.com/I7wllQuq81 — 방탄소년단 (@BTS_twt) June 1, 2021 These figures put the new single fourth on the Streaming Songs chart and No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales Chart, Billboard added. “Butter” drew 18.1 million radio airplay audience impressions in the week ending May +

  • McDonald’s bets W10 billion on BTS

    McDonald’s bets W10 billion on BTS McDonald’s has recently introduced its latest celebrity menu collaboration with BTS. BTS, which CNN called “the biggest boy band in the world” in 2019, is one of the most expensive celebrity spokesmodels at the +

  • South Korea announced vaccinated people can go outdoors without masks

    Vaccinated people can go outdoors without masks South Korea announced Wednesday that people who have received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine will no longer be required to wear masks outdoors starting in July, as part of incentives for +

  • BTS won four prizes Billboard Music Awards (BBMA)

    BTS won four prizes Billboard Music Awards (BBMA) Kpop boy band BTS has won four prizes, including the major title of Top Selling Song, at this year’s Billboard Music Awards (BBMA), the most for the group at the event ever. +

  • BTS Butter surpassed 100 million views in 21 hours

    BTS Butter surpassed 100 million views in 21 hours The music video for the digital single “Butter” by the group BTS has surpassed 100 million views. As of 10 a.m. on the 22nd, BTS’s “Butter” music video recorded 100 million +

  • BTS ‘Butter’ hits 10 million views in 13 minutes of MV release

    BTS ‘Butter’ hits 10 million views in 13 minutes of MV release The new song “Butter” by the group BTS set another record. At 1 pm on the 21st of May, the music video for “Butter,” which was released on +

  • Seoul Launches “Special Tourist Zone Recovery Project” with Half-priced Gift Certificates, etc.

    Seoul Launches Special Tourist Zone Recovery Project The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) is putting in an effort to revitalize major tourist zones in downtown Seoul, which are suffering from the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. The SMG and the Seoul Tourism Organization +

  • BTS becomes the first all-Asian act to front Rolling Stone in magazine’s history

    BTS becomes the first all-Asian act to front Rolling Stone in magazine’s history K-pop sensation BTS is featured on the cover of the latest issue of U.S. popular culture magazine Rolling Stone. “BTS appears on our June cover,” the magazine +

  • BTS to perform new single ‘Butter’ at Billboard Music Awards

    BTS to perform new single ‘Butter’ at Billboard Music Awards K-pop superstars BTS will put on its first performance of the upcoming release “Butter” at the Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs) scheduled for later this month. The seven-piece act will be +

  • Girl group LOONA named this year’s envoy for Korean culture

    Girl group LOONA named this year’s envoy for Korean culture The 12-member girl group LOONA is the Korean Culture and Information Service(KOCIS)’s promotional ambassador this year to spread Korean culture worldwide. Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hwang Hee on +




  • Song & Song couple on October 31, ‘private’ wedding

    Song Song Couple actor Song Joong-ki and actress Song Hye-kyo’s wedding ceremony will be held privately. On October 29, Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo will tie the knot at the Shilla Hotel in Jangchung-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul. The wedding ceremony is going to be strictly closed to the public and there is no officiate their wedding. Get Booking ‘Descendants Of The Sun + DMZ Tour’ Song Joong-ki’s close friend will be hosted the wedding ceremony and Song Hey-kyo’s good friend Singer Ock Joo-hyun will sing to celebrate the couple’s wedding. The two people will invite-only about 300 family members, relatives, and closest residents to the wedding ceremony, as people’s attention is concentrated on the “Song Song Couple” wedding ceremony. Also, as it is a closed wedding ceremony, it is said that there is no press conference, photo time, photo wall, and there is no separate +

  • An Ultimate Experience in Korea

    Experience Everything in Korea Life get’s boring when you start to do the same thing over and over again. We create our own lives, we are born with a huge canvas in front of us, paintbrushes, and a palette of paint in our hands. We get to +

  • K-Drama ‘Dokkaebi‘ Shooting Places in Seoul



  • 31st Lotte Duty Free Family Concert Lineup – BTS, TWICE, ITZY and more

    31st Lotte Duty Free Family Concert Lotte Duty Free announced on the 20th of April that it will hold the 31st Lotte Duty Free Family Concert online with popular KPOP singers such as BTS and ITZY on the 16th of next month(May). The performance will feature Super Junior-D&E, BTS, TWICE, +

  • McDonald’s will launch ‘The BTS Set Meal’ beginning May 26

    McDonald The BTS Set Meal beginning May 26 McDonald’s on Monday announced it will launch a collaboration with BTS as the latest in its line of celebrity meals. The BTS Meal will be available at U.S. McDonald’s locations from May 26 through June 20. It will launch in 11 other +

  • BTS Bang Bang Con 21 peak simultaneous 2.7 million viewers

    BTS Bang Bang Con 21 peak simultaneous 2.7 million viewers The number of peak simultaneous viewers of the latest online concert streaming event by K-pop group BTS surpassed 2.7 million, the boy band’s agency said. The milestone figure was announced by Big Hit Music one day after “Bang Bang Con +

  • SBS’ ‘Taxi Driver’ to offer catharsis through justice served against criminals

    The new SBS series Taxi Driver The new SBS series, “Taxi Driver,” is set to air starting Friday, delivering hard-boiled action and a cathartic storyline of “good versus evil.” “The series is about rescuing crime victims who are on the edge of despair, and about delivering a message to real-life +

  • Jeju Olle Trail named one of world’s top 10 coastal walks

    Jeju Olle Trail named one of world’s top 10 coastal walks Jeju Olle Trail on Jeju Island has been selected one of the world’s top 10 coastal walks by Active Traveller Magazine of the U.K. Jeju Olle Foundation, which manages the trail, on April 9 said the course was the +

  • South Korea to ease quarantine guidelines for overseas arrivals

    South Korea to ease quarantine guidelines for overseas arrivals The travel industry expressed its support for the revision of the law, which includes the flexible application of the quarantine period for overseas arrivals. The Korea Travel Business Association (KATA) delivered an official letter expressing its support for the revision of +

  • YG Entertainment Announces to Hold a Global Audition for a New Boy Group

    YG Entertainment Global Audition One of Korea’s largest management agencies YG Entertainment is holding a global audition for a new boy group. On April 12, YG Entertainment announced that they are planning on holding a global audition for a new boy group titled, ‘2021 YG New Boy Group Audition at +

  • Chilean TV channel apologizes over racist jokes about BTS

    Apologizes over racist jokes about BTS Only about a month after a German radio host came under fire for his racist comment on K-pop behemoth BTS, Chilean comedians have infuriated its fans again with racist jokes about the global stars. Chilean channel Mega, which aired the controversial spoof on its +

  • ‘Dynamite’ sets KPOP mark for longest stay on Billboard Hot 100

    ‘Dynamite’ sets the longest stay on Billboard Hot 100 The digital single “Dynamite” by K-pop megastar BTS has made history as the longest-charting song by a Korean act on the Hot 100 singles chart of the U.S.-based Billboard. In the latest update of the rankings on April 5, “Dynamite” finished +

  • 3 Hidden Gem honeymoon destinations in Korea

    Best 3 hidden honeymoon destinations in Korea Many soon-to-be-married couples have been choosing domestic destinations for their honeymoons, while the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic places restrictions on travel to other countries. While the nation’s southern resort island of Jeju, which has a great wealth of tourism assets, has become the most +

  • Busan One Asia Festival, K-pop fest to kick off online next month

    Busan One Asia Festival 2021 The Busan One Asia Festival (BOF), a major annual K-pop event, will kick off online next month in this southeastern port city due to concerns over the new coronavirus pandemic, organizers said Sunday. According to the Busan Tourism Organization, BOF 2021 will be streamed online +

  • ‘We feel grief and anger’: BTS criticizes anti-Asian racism

    BTS criticizes anti-Asian racism “We feel grief and anger,” Joining the widening “Stop Asian Hate” movement, triggered by the recent deadly shootings in Atlanta, K-pop boy band BTS condemned racial discrimination and violence in a resolute Twitter message Tuesday. “We feel grief and anger,” BTS said in a message posted +






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