Cannes Film Festival in 2019, the veteran auteur voiced concern that the movie might be “too South Korean” for the audience. He needn’t have worried.
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Brave Girls are reportedly preparing to make another comeback later this year with new music.Hot on the heels of their latest mini-album ‘Summer Queen’ and its lead single ‘Chi Mat Ba Ram’, Brave Girls are reportedly already preparing for their next comeback.
According to South Korean media outlet News1, per Koreaboo, the group will be returning with a repackaged album this fall and are currently working on their new song.If true, this will be Brave Girls’ second comeback this year, following
.Cannes Film Festival in 2019, the veteran auteur voiced concern that the movie might be “too South Korean” for the audience. He needn’t have worried.
Warner Bros. TV will have panels for their DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Roswell, New Mexico during San Diego Comic-Con@Home which runs July 23-25.
Louis Vuitton staged a “spin-off show” of its Fall 2021 menswear collection designed by Virgil Abloh in Seoul, featuring the brand’s house ambassadors BTS on Wednesday. The seven-member Korean boy band walked and modelled the collection in a short film by Abloh and South Korean director Jeon Go-woon, debuting 34 new looks.
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The War On Drugs have reportedly been filming a new music video, according to a new post on Reddit.The band, led by Adam Granduciel, are said to have been filming in a barn somewhere in the US.“Randomly stumbled upon this on Facebook!” Reddit user frontyer0077 posted on the Indieheads subreddit. “Looks like they’re filming a music video!”They included a screen grab from Facebook of someone posting photos from the supposed shoot.
BLACKPINK members Jennie and Rosé are in Los Angeles working on new music, their agency YG Entertainment has confirmed.Rumours began to circulate about what the stars were doing in LA after paparazzi photos of them in the city appeared online.After the pictures were published by US gossip sites, YG responded, clarifying the purpose of the rapper and singer’s trip out of South Korea.
Big Bang member Seungri is reportedly facing a five-year jail sentence as part of his alleged involvement in the Burning Sun scandal in 2019.On July 1, at the 25th hearing for Seungri’s (born Lee Seung-hyun) truak, South Korean military prosecutors reportedly requested a five-year jail sentence and a fine of ₩20million (roughly £12,800) for the former idol, according to CNA.He is being accused of embezzlement, habitual gambling, prostitution mediation and special violence instigation, among
Stray Kids are currently working on new music, their agency JYP Entertainment has confirmed.Yesterday (June 29, South Korean news outlet SPOTV News originally reported that the boyband would be making their return in late August.
Ed Sheeran has revealed he has written a song for the new BTS record.While speaking to Most Requested Live, Sheeran confirmed the new track after briefly discussing his previous collaboration with the record-smashing Korean group, ‘Make It Right’.“I’ve actually worked with BTS on their last record, and I’ve just written a song for their new record,” he said.
Hoshi of South Korean boyband SEVENTEEN has surprise-released a new solo song called ‘Tiger Power’.On June 24, the K-pop idol released ‘Tiger Power’ via SEVENTEEN’s official YouTube channel.
Cannes 2021 will make history, as for the first time the festival’s jury will be majority female.Among the jurists are actress-director Maggie Gyllenhaal, French actress-director Mélanie Laurent, French-Senegalese actor-director Mati Diop, Austrian director Jessica Hausner and French singer Mylene Farmer.Director Spike Lee will preside over the jury, which includes Brazilian director Kleber Mendonca Filho, South Korea’s Song Kang-ho, and French actor Tahar Rahim.More to come…
Variety’s Music Mogul of the Year, is a whirlwind, with pop stars like Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande relying on him for professional and personal guidance, a staff of 39 who look to him for leadership and an industry that banks on him for hit songs, TV shows and movies.
Stray Kids are set to drop new music, according to their label JYP Entertainment.On June 15, South Korean news outlet Joy News 24 reported that the boyband would be releasing a digital single in late June, citing unnamed industry representatives.
BLACKPINK have unveiled a mysterious new project ahead of their fifth anniversary.The South Korean act previewed the “4+1 PROJECT” on their social media pages today (June 15) with a cryptic teaser image. They also posted a link to the project’s microsite, although that currently only features the same teaser image.Its title seems to reference the group’s headcount of four members, leaving the mysterious “1” up to interpretation.
It already saw off Donald Trump, now K-pop is threatening to cause the collapse of North Korea. Or so fears that nation’s leader Kim Jong-un, as South Korean pop music gains popularity in the country.Kim has called South Korean entertainment smuggled into North Korea via China a “vicious cancer”, according to the New York Times.
Tiffany Young has shared her first reaction when she heard that Sunmi would be a mentor on Mnet’s upcoming reality TV competition series, Girls Planet 999.Earlier today (June 14), the South Korean network uploaded a video introducing Tiffany Young and Sunmi as the mentors, dubbed “K-pop Masters”, for Girls Planet 999.
K-pop as a “vicious cancer” corrupting the young people he governs.On Friday (June 11), The New York Times reported that the politician has declared a new culture war to halt the spread and influence of South Korean movies, K-dramas and K-pop videos to his citizens through a secretive anti-K-pop campaign.News of the culture war was first learned by Seoul-based news source Daily NK from leaked internal documents coming from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.“To Kim Jong-un, the cultural