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K-CULTURE

Jungkook’s ‘Golden’ sells over 2.4M copies in first week of release

Jungkook's solo album "Golden" sold over 2.4 million copies within seven days of sales, making him the highest-selling K-pop solo artist in a week's time. "Golden"...

NewJeans to make Billboard Music Awards performance debut

NewJeans will be performing at the Billboard Music Awards 2023 (BBMAs 2023) in Las Vegas on Nov. 19, becoming the first K-pop girl group to...

MAMA Awards begins global takeover with first ceremony in Japan

  This year’s upcoming MAMA Awards will take place on Nov. 28 and 29 at Tokyo Dome, the largest indoor music venue in Japan. But...

K-pop boy band WHIB debuts with big dreams in ‘Cut-Out’

Rookie boy band WHIB made an ambitious entry into the world of K-pop, aiming to follow the legacy of legendary K-pop boy bands. “We have...

IVE unveils 25 new world tour stops, with more to come

IVE will perform in over 27 cities worldwide until mid-2024 as part of its "Show What I Have" tour, the girl group's agency Starship Entertainment...

‘Beyond Utopia’ vividly depicts desperate escapes of North Korean defectors

  The surge in North Korean defectors began in earnest in the mid-1990s. Even after their escape, they face serious human rights violations in their...

BTS’s Jungkook earns platinum certification in U.S. for ‘Seven’

Jungkook of boy band BTS’s solo single “Seven (feat. Latto)” has been certified platinum status by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), his agency...

Upcoming Korean films in limbo due to Lee Sun-kyun drug allegations

After being summoned by the police a second time over the weekend, actor Lee Sun-kyun admitted that he did take illegal drugs, but said he...

‘I fell in love with Korean pop culture’: DaCosta discusses Marvel, Park Seo-jun’s casting

It was the talk of the town when news broke about two years ago that Korean actor Park Seo-jun had been cast in a...

‘Global mega rookie’ ZeroBaseOne takes it all in with release of ‘Melting Point’

Having won one of the biggest audition programs in Korea, debuting and selling 2 million copies of their first album, the year 2023 was...