Korea Joongang Daily
Korea JoongAng Daily

BTS's 10th anniversary single to drop Friday

BTS will release the single "Take Two" on Friday to celebrate its 10-year debut anniversary. "The title of the upcoming single, 'Take Two,' refers to the 'second chapter of BTS,' that the boy band plans to continue," BTS's agency said in a ...

2023-06-09

Korea's pop music association to host 2-day event for industry professionals

The Record Label Industry Association of Korea (LIAK) will host a two-day get-together of experts in the pop music industry in November, titled "M Camp." "'M Camp' will be the biggest festival of its kind where people from all corners of ...

2023-06-08

Tomorrow X Together to return in July with new music

Boy band Tomorrow X Together will return in July with new music. “Tomorrow X Together is currently preparing for a July music release. We will be announcing further details in the near future,” agency BigHit Music told the Korea JoongAng ...

2023-06-08

Melon streams to be counted toward Billboard charts

Billboard will start counting Melon streams toward three of its music charts Wednesday, the Korean music streaming service said the same day. Billboard's South Korea Songs chart, Global 200 and Global Excl. US are the three charts that will ...

2023-06-07

[THINK ENGLISH] 하이브, 텐센트 뮤직과 음원 계약 … BTS·세븐틴 노래도 중국에서 공식 유통된다

K-pop powerhouse HYBE signed a music distribution deal with Tencent Music Entertainment this month bringing the music of its artists like BTS and Seventeen to Chinese streaming services with nearly 600 million monthly users.

2023-05-31

Not even rain could dampen this year's Seoul Jazz Festival

Rain only made the music ring deeper in festivalgoers' hearts at the Seoul Jazz Festival. The downpour that clouded the Korean Peninsula over the weekend did not stop music lovers from going to the Seoul Jazz Festival held from Friday to Sunday...

2023-05-29

J-Hope of BTS shares photos after completing basic military training

J-Hope of boy band BTS shared pictures of himself on Wednesday after finishing his five-week basic military training. "I finished my basic military training well," the BTS ...

2023-05-24

HYBE's photo exhibit to feature BTS, Seventeen

HYBE will hold a photo exhibition featuring five groups from its company, displaying close-up portraits and behind-the-scenes stories from BTS, Seventeen, Tomorrow X Together, Enhypen and Le Sserafim. The exhibition titled "The Daydream ...

2023-05-22

Jay Park to release new single 'Candy'

Singer-songwriter Jay Park will drop "Candy," a single featuring Zion.T on May 23, his self-established agency More Vision said Wednesday. The upcoming single is produced by Cha Cha Malone, the American producer responsible ...

2023-05-17

Five K-pop associations slam revisions to act related to young stars

Five associations in Korea’s pop culture industry issued a statement on Tuesday urging that the clause on strengthening regulations on underage celebrities’ work hours in the new “Lee Seung-gi Crisis Prevention Act” be deleted. The Korea ...

2023-05-16