Boy band CIX will celebrate the third anniversary of its debut with online activities throughout the week. The quintet uploaded a teaser for the week-long event that starts on Monday, leading up to the anniversary that falls on Friday. It includes a five-part series of cover videos as well as an interview clip. On Friday, the bandmates will livestream and chat with fans. From April to ...

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And I’ve concluded that the time has come to respect K-pop. It’s time to appreciate idols and their songs, as their sound connects with the global community and delivers hopeful messages. I’ve often listened to the genre with a cynical eye, but K-pop has taught me not to take things at face value. I never had the will to delve into K-pop, and I was judging a book by its glitzy, flashy cover. But...

K-pop boy group Seventeen will return Monday with a repackaged version of its fourth studio album, "Face the Sun." The new album titled "Sector 17" is to hit online music services at about 6 p.m., according to the band's agency, Pledis Entertainment. "Sector 17" will have four new songs, including "_World," "Fallin' Flower" and "Cheers," in addition to nine tracks off "Face the Sun," the agency...

k"Girls," the second EP from South Korean girl group aespa, landed at No. 3 on US Billboard's main albums chart. Billboard has said in an article Sunday (US time) that the quartet reached the milestone on the upcoming Billboard 200 chart for this week by earning 56,000 equivalent album units in the United States. "Girls" became the second highest-charted album by a K-pop girl group after BLACKP...

Sales of K-pop albums have once again renewed their all-time-high level in the first half of this year, with the music continuing to be in its heyday, a local market tracker said. According to Kim Jin-woo, head researcher of Circle Chart, which reports accumulated sales and streams, on Sunday, combined sales of the nation's top 400 physical albums have risen to 34.9 million copies in the first h...

The 2021 TV competition “Street Woman Fighter” has changed the scene for dancers. The show put dancers, who usually played a support role on the stage, in the spotlight and gave them their own fan bases. Hyojin Choi said she could feel the change after her time on the popular show. “I’ve been dancing since I was a student, and at that time, everyone from my school teachers to my family had this...

“It should not be too familiar, but also not too strange either. I am a commercial film director, so I have to constantly consider whether there is too big of a gap between what I have in my head and what audiences can imagine. In order to do that, I ask lots of questions to people and listen, then I choose what to keep and what to cut out. Through this process I find a balance,” Choi said. Duri...

AB6IX will meet fans in Taipei on Nov. 4, adding the city to its ongoing global fan meet tour, agency Brand New Music said Friday. The fan concert “AB_New Area” started in Seoul last month and brought the four bandmates to eight cities so far, including Tokyo, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Next month, they will head to Osaka and Bangkok before resuming the tour in Taipei in November. ...

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Pinkfong, the company behind the hit YouTube “Baby Shark Dance,” is set to sell shark family-related non-fungible tokens on the digital art platform and marketplace MakersPlace in the third quarter of the year. According to the company, a total of 10,000 generative art NFTs, including the members of shark family -- Mommy Shark, Daddy Shark, Grandma Shark, Alec (the grandfather shark) and Ollie, ...

K-pop girl group ITZY will roll out a new EP on Friday, to be followed by its first-ever US tour, the group's agency said. The album titled "Checkmate," set to be out at 1 p.m., is the band's fifth EP and first release in about 10 months since its first full-length album "Crazy in Love" last September. Preorders for the upcoming album had surpassed 720,000 copies as of Thursday afternoon, a rec...

Elvis (US) Opened July 13 Drama Directed by Baz Luhrmann Elvis Presley (Austin Butler) is an ordinary 19-year-old boy who dreams of becoming a musician. He lives in one of the poorest parts of Mississippi. But one day, Elvis gets to sing on a small stage for a local radio station and his performance is incredible. Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks), who is working in the entertainment business, ...

Girl group StayC will greet its fans for the first time in Seoul on Aug. 13, said agency HighUp Entertainment on Thursday. This is the first such event for the six-member group that debuted in 2020. In the meantime, the band has been releasing a series of teaser content for third single “We Need Love” that will come out on Aug. 19. The single comes about five months since its second EP “Y...

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