For Once members in Brazil, it was the Brazilian music infused in one of Twice’s hits that garnered their interest. “Twice came under the spotlight with its album ‘Taste of Love.’ The song 'Alcohol-Free' having a bossa nova rhythm helped a lot. Many people started listening to Twice because of this song. They also gained visibility through Twitter, where a Brazilian fan posted a video of Dahyun ...

Hallyu words Some may criticize that the new trend among international K-pop and Hallyu fans are a deterioration of traditional Korean. However, Kiaer, who is researching the evolution of Korean language at its forefront, says this is not a timely perception. Kiaer defined these new words as neither Korean nor non-Korean, but a "diaspora word." For Korean language to develop and excel naturally...

Exo's Baekhyun, Shinee's Taemin, Monsta X's Shownu among many to complete duty

Around 80,000 fans flock to the two sold-out shows at Osaka's Kyocera Dome

The Boyz will come out with their eighth EP on Feb. 27, agency IST Entertainment announced Friday. The yet-to-be-titled EP comes about six months after previous EP “Be Aware.” The teaser image for the upcoming EP had “missing” posters to remind fans of the concept photographs for the last album. The boy band celebrated its fifth anniversary last week with original content uploaded to its YouTub...

A teaser trailer for the upcoming single of BSS, a trio unit from Seventeen, was uploaded on Thursday. BSS -- consisting of Seungkwan, Dogyeom and Hoshi -- is set to drop the first single “Second Wind” on Feb. 6. “Second Wind” is the trio's hope for its new music to be like a breath of fresh air for listeners. The energetic teaser video ends with the three members shouting out words of support. ...

Last December, Jin of BTS officially enlisted for duty, the first of the seven members. Jin has completed five weeks of training at a front-line infantry division boot camp in Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi Province, and has been assigned as an assistant drill instructor as his permanent military position. The assistant instructor's main responsibility is to discipline recruits and demonstrate training exe...

StayC will bring out a new album in February, according to agency High Up Entertainment on Wednesday. It comes about seven months since its third single “We Need Love.” The group debuted in November 2020 with “So Bad” and has amassed 400 million streams on Spotify so far, putting out EPs “Stereotype” and “Young-Luv.com.” Its second single “Staydom” alone generated 100 million streams on the pla...

NCT 127 is launching a virtual concert in collaboration with Roblox. SM Entertainment on Wednesday announced NCT 127 will hold a global virtual concert, "The NCT 127 Concert Experience," in the metaverse space of Roblox. Along with the platform's developer Roblox Corp., the nine-piece K-pop band will launch the first-ever K-pop concert inside the metaverse space. From Jan. 28-30, the concert wi...

NewJeans, the fresh K-pop sensation, has placed its track “Ditto” on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time among the fourth generation K-pop groups. “Ditto,” the side track from its latest single album “OMG,” hit the chart dated Jan. 21 at No. 96. Such an accomplishment comes only within a year since its debut on last August. The success of the track “Ditto” comes as its streaming gradually...

Aespa invited to the Governors Ball festival as the first K-pop girl group

Ive released Japanese-language version of second single “Love Dive” on Monday, signaling that it will continue to keep its fans busy in Japan this year. The six-member act officially debuted in the country in October last year with their first single “Eleven” that reached first place on Tower Records’ Best Sellers K-Pop Single Top 10 in 2022. The single also made Billboard Japan’s Top Singles Sa...

Cheeky and fresh is how public broadcaster KBS wants to make over its 30-year legacy of late-night music talk shows, with the first new version of “The Seasons,” starting next month. The program will be a one-year project divided into four different seasons, each hosted by different stars. The first season, “The Seasons-Jay Park’s Drive,” will be led by the Korean singer and rapper Jay Park. I...

Seven-piece girl group ends 14-month hiatus with third EP

Choi Yena celebrates first anniversary with her first single 'Love War.'