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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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[Today’s K-pop] Blackpink Rose’s “On the Ground” video tops 200m views
The music video for “On the Ground,” the solo debut of Blackpink’s Rose, surpassed 200 million views on YouTube on Tuesday, announced label YG Entertainment on the same day. It has been 123 days since the video’s release. It stormed past 100 million views in about a week, the shortest time for a video by a K-pop solo female artist. The song topped iTunes top songs chart in 51 regions and topped both of Billboard’s worldwide tallies, the Global 200 and Bil
K-popJuly 13, 2021
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JYP Entertainment teams up with Sony Music to create boy band
Sony Music Entertainment Japan announced Monday that it would team up with K-pop powerhouse JYP Entertainment to launch a new boy band. The two jointly held an online press conference in Korea and Japan to share their plans for the production of the new group, which will be elected through the survival reality program “Nizi Project.” The upcoming audition show will be aired in the latter half of the year. Park Jin-young, the chief of the label, expressed his excitement about cre
K-popJuly 13, 2021
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K-pop rookie Enhypen sweeps Oricon music charts with debut Japanese single
K-pop rookie Enhypen has topped a key daily and a weekly music chart in Japan with its debut Japanese single, music tracker Oricon said Tuesday. "Border: Hakanai" ranked No. 1 on Oricon's latest weekly singles chart, selling over 200,000 copies from July 5 to Sunday, according to Oricon News. The band's first Japanese single also sat atop Oricon's daily singles chart for the seventh consecutive day since its release last Tuesday. Enhypen, which debuted in November, is the first amon
K-popJuly 13, 2021
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BTS extends No. 1 streak on Billboard Hot 100 to seven straight weeks
K-pop sensation BTS' summery, up-tempo number "Butter" remained atop Billboard's main singles chart for the seventh consecutive week in the group's best chart record since its debut. ""Butter" is officially No. 1 on this week's #Hot100 chart for a seventh week," Billboard said on its Twitter account on Monday (US time). The septet's second English song drew 10.8 million US streams and sold 108,800 downloads in the week ending July 8, it said. The song also attract
K-popJuly 13, 2021
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[Today’s K-pop] Blackpink’s Lisa to shoot solo music video
Lisa of Blackpink will shoot a music video for her solo debut song this week, label YG Entertainment said Monday. It confirmed an earlier media report that said she would start shooting the video and is set to drop her first solo music this summer. The label announced last year that the members, except for Jennie who was the first to drop her solo album in 2018, will put out solo projects one by one after the release of the band’s full-length album in September. Rose rolled out hers
K-popJuly 12, 2021
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BTS' 'Permission to Dance' ranks No. 2 on Spotify's global chart
"Permission to Dance" by South Korean superband BTS snatched the No. 2 spot on Spotify's Global Top 200 chart, the global streaming giant said Sunday. The upbeat number was streamed 7,339,385 times on Spotify on the day of its release Friday, the streaming service said. The song was only second to "Beggin'" by Italian rock band Maneskin, the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest this year. "Permission to Dance" also came in first on 13 regional top 200 charts
K-popJuly 11, 2021
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New BTS song 'Permission to Dance' tops iTunes charts in 92 regions
Supergroup BTS has swept more than 90 regional iTunes charts with its new release "Permission to Dance," the act's agency said Saturday. The upbeat number, released at 1 p.m. the previous day, debuted at No. 1 on iTunes top songs charts in 92 regions, including the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy and Japan, according to Big Hit Music. The music video for the song, also released at 1 p.m. on Friday, has proven to be a hit, breaking 10 million views on
K-popJuly 10, 2021
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[Today’s K-pop] Twice tops Billboard world album chart
Twice rose to No. 1 on Billboard’s world albums chart with “Taste of Love,” according to the publication’s latest tally that became available Friday. The band’s tenth EP came out on June 11 and stayed on three major Billboard charts for three consecutive weeks, ranking No. 90 on the Billboard 200 and No. 67 on the Artist 100 for the week of July 10. It has entered 11 charts in total, and is showing no signs of waning. “Taste of Love”
K-popJuly 9, 2021
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BTS compilation album certified million-seller in Japan
A Japanese-language album by superband BTS has received a million-seller certification in Japan, the group's agency said Friday. "BTS, The Best," the seven-piece band's album released in the Asian country in June, received the certification by the Recording Industry Association of Japan, according to Big Hit Music. It is the first million-seller certified album in Japan this year. For BTS, it is their first album to receive the million-seller certification by the industry associatio
K-popJuly 9, 2021
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K-pop powerhouse JYP teases new girl group debut in 2022
JYP Entertainment, the agency-label behind K-pop girl groups like ITZY, TWICE and Wonder Girls, is poised to launch a new all-female act next year. The company, which recently posted a new teaser image and video for the upcoming launch, said the new act is set to debut in February next year. JYP said it has formed a new business unit dedicated to the girl group, comprising officials who helped scout and train members of Wonder Girls, 2AM, 2PM and TWICE. As part of a pre-debut scheme, JYP is s
K-popJuly 9, 2021
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[Today’s K-pop] BTS to perform new song at ‘Tonight Show’
BTS will appear on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” about a year after the group’s last visit, next week. The band floated a teaser trailer on the show’s social media channel on Wednesday in the US in which RM said: “We’re coming back to ‘The Tonight Show.’ Make sure to tune in!” The septet will perform “Butter” and upcoming song “Permission to Dance” on July 13 and 14, respectively. The t
K-popJuly 8, 2021
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K-pop leads Twitter’s live audio chat Spaces
K-pop is the most popular topic engaged by users on Twitter Spaces, live audio chat sessions streamed through the social media platform, with three of the five most-listened to Spaces being hosted by K-pop artists. According a survey done by Twitter, boy band GOT7’s member BamBam had the most-listened to Space with his chat on June 9, while girl group Twice ranked fifth with their Space hosted the same day. Boy band NCT, the first K-pop artist to host a Space on March 11 during the priv
K-popJuly 8, 2021
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K-pop couple Kim Hee-chul, Momo break up
Singers Kim Hee-chul and Momo have separated, roughly 1 1/2 years after acknowledging their romantic relationship, their agencies confirmed Thursday. SJ Label, which manages Super Junior, and JYP Entertainment, which represents TWICE, confirmed the couple has broken up without providing further details. The two celebrities, who are respective members of popular K-pop acts Super Junior and TWICE, were rumored to be dating since 2019. They acknowledged their relationship in January last year. T
K-popJuly 8, 2021
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BTS, TXT make splash on Billboard's Pop Airplay chart
BTS and Tomorrow X Together (TXT) -- both managed by K-pop powerhouse Big Hit Music -- have simultaneously landed on Billboard's Pop Airplay chart with their all-English tracks. BTS ranked No. 11 with "Butter" on the latest version of the radio chart, which reflects weekly data from around 160 U.S. radio stations. The chart, which counts the top 40 songs, is seen as a gauge of local popularity. The upbeat summer number, which has topped Billboard's main singles chart for the sixth st
K-popJuly 8, 2021
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[Today’s K-pop] Stray Kids’ new single debuts at No. 1 on Billboard chart
Stray Kids’ new single “Mixtape: OH” hit Billboard’s world digital song sales chart at No. 1, the publication announced in a tweet Wednesday. “It earns the group its 26th career entry on the chart and first No.1,” said the tweet. The songwriting trio 3Racha -- Bang Chan, Changbin and Han -- co-authored the song that sings of how one feels like a child when faced with the feeling of love. As a Forbes article pointed out, the fact
K-popJuly 7, 2021
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[Today’s K-pop] Girls' Generation Taeyeon puts out solo song
Taeyeon of Girls’ Generation returned with new song “Weekend” on Tuesday. The songstress discussed her new song through her label SM Entertainment introducing it as one that you can listen to casually and that would lift up the mood. “I’m happy to bring out an upbeat song after a long while,” she said. The lightheartedness let her work on it with smiles and she wants to share more good energy. She tried to be as relaxed as possible while recordi
K-popJuly 6, 2021
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Rise of rookies and return of old school in K-pop
The return of group 2PM on Monday last week with their new album “Must” was special not just because they were officially reunited on the stage for the first time in five years, but also because the group managed to survive military service. It is often considered natural for K-pop groups to grow apart or disband after time as the members grow old and eventually leave the original agency when their contract expires. This was also the scenario some may have expected of 2
K-popJuly 6, 2021
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K-pop powerhouse JYP opens pop-up store in Tokyo
JYP Entertainment, the K-pop agency-label that represents acts like TWICE, Itzy and Stray Kids, said Tuesday it has opened a pop-up store in Tokyo for fans there. The venue set up in the Ginza neighborhood of the Japanese capital opened Saturday and is set to run until Aug. 31, the company said. In addition to selling merchandise related to the agency's artists, an exhibition marking boy band 2PM's 10th debut anniversary in Japan is also taking place. The company said costumes that girl groups
K-popJuly 6, 2021
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[Today’s K-pop] SF9 turns over new leaf
SF9 declared there is no limit for the band at a showcase held in Seoul on Monday. The nine-piece act put out its ninth EP, “Turn Over,” a year following previous EP “9loryUS.” “I feel nervous and excited at the same time coming up on the stage again after a year,” said Youngbin. The band is in high spirits, however, having built up confidence after participating in “Kingdom: Legendary War,” a contest show among boy bands, he a
K-popJuly 5, 2021
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'DNA' becomes 1st BTS music video to break 1.3b views on YouTube
Global superstar BTS has set another record on YouTube, with its music video for the 2017 song "DNA" earning 1.3 billion views on YouTube, the band's agency said Saturday. YouTube views for "DNA," released in September 2017, topped 1.3 billion around midnight Friday, becoming the seven-piece act's first music video to reach the milestone, according to Big Hit Entertainment. It took just five months for the music video to add an extra 100 million views after it broke 1.2 b
K-popJuly 3, 2021