K-pop
Heavy rain brings PSY's Summer Swag 2024 concert to screaming halt
Singer PSY’s Summer Swag 2024, an annual summer concert, was brought to a halt about an hour into the show due to heavy weather conditions, on Saturday.
Jul 21, 2024
Lee Gyu-lee
Korea Times Business Reporter
Lee Gyu-lee is a business writer at The Korea Times, focusing primarily on IT & telecommunications, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and KOTRA. Prior to this, she has covered a wide range of cultural news, from film, television and K-pop to lifestyle and fashion.
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Shows & Dramas
INTERVIEW 'Are ghosts real?': Docuseries explores the world of Korean shamanism
Tving’s new docuseries “Shaman: Whispers from the Dead” starts with two presenters, actors Yoo Ji-tae and Ok Ja-yeon, exchanging a series of questions like “Have you ever met a shaman?,” “Have you ever had a shaman read your fortune?,” “Do you believe in God?” and “Do you believe in ghosts?”
Jul 19, 2024
Shows & Dramas
Docuseries 'Just Family' highlights LGTBQ+ couples in Korea
Getting married, becoming pregnant and giving birth to a child are all significant milestones, especially in modern Korean society, which is grappling with the world’s lowest total fertility rate. However, for Kim Kyu-jin and Kim Sae-yeon, the openly married lesbian couple who made headlines in Korea in 2019, achieving these milestones was far from easy.
Jul 18, 2024
Arts & Theater
SHINee's Minho to make stage debut in 'Waiting for Waiting for Godot'
Singer and actor Choi Min-ho, also known as Minho of SHINee, will make his stage debut in "Waiting for Waiting for Godot" in September.
Jul 15, 2024
K-pop
SM's 1st British boy band to debut on BBC
K-pop powerhouse SM Entertainment will launch its first boy group from the United Kingdom with BBC's reality show, "Made in Korea: The K-Pop Experience," sharing the making of the group, the company said Friday.
Jul 12, 2024
K-pop
BTS Jimin’s single breaks K-pop record for 50 million Spotify streams
Jimin of K-pop juggernaut BTS has been setting new records on the world's largest music streaming platform, Spotify, with his latest solo song, “Smeraldo Garden Marching Band.”
Jul 12, 2024
Films
INTERVIEW 'Project Silence' director, Ju Ji-hoon recall working with late actor Lee Sun-kyun
Seven months after the death of actor Lee Sun-kyun, one of his last films, the disaster epic, "Project Silence," is set to premiere in local theaters this Friday.
Jul 11, 2024
Films
Thriller film 'Revolver' to show Jeon Do-yeon's new face
Actor Jeon Do-yeon has teamed up again with director Oh Seung-uk for the revenge thriller "Revolver," nearly a decade after their collaboration on "The Shameless" (2015), which was shown in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes.
Jul 9, 2024
Shows & Dramas
INTERVIEW Wi Ha-joon on first melodrama lead role in ‘The Midnight Romance in Hagwon’ and ‘Squid Game 2’
Actor Wi Ha-joon took on his first lead role in the melodrama genre series with tvN’s “The Midnight Romance in Hagwon,” playing a rookie instructor.
Jul 8, 2024