South Korean boy band EXO has sold more than 2.13 million copies of its five albums released in 2016, the group's agency has said.
His grandparents came from Miryang, a small southeastern city in Korea. He studied fine art at a popular Seoul art school, illustrated four children books and held around 10 exhibitions with his paintings in and out of the country. Last Friday, he held an event to showcase his new songs.
In the world of show business, 2016 was the year of Gong Yoo.
Taeyeon of South Korean girl group Girls' Generation was dubbed the top idol solo performer on a yearly music chart, a local chart compiler said on Thursday.
South Korea's oldest bookstore will be brought back to life 14 years after its closing, local publishers said on Thursday. Jongno Books, more commonly known as Jongno Seojeok, will relaunch on Friday at Seoul's Jongno intersection, according to book publishing officials. Under a different mother company and management, the new store will replace the Jongno Tower branch of bookstore chain Bandi & Lunis. A former executive of Youngpoong Bookstore, a local bookstore chain, will take the helm of the new store. Launched by a Jesuit organization in 1907, Jongno Bookstore grew fast to become a popular meet-up and cultural hangout of the time. Later in the 1980s, new bookstore chains including Kyobo Book Center and Youngpoong Bookstore joined the market. The 97-year-old bookstore gradually gave way to the new chains and public demand for online bookstores, ultimately going out of business in 2002.
South Korea's top stars will be gathering at major broadcasting stations next week to honor and celebrate the best performances by actors in TV series this year.
"The Sound of Your Heart," a popular web series based on a cartoon, has hit 100 million views in China, the show's Chinese platform showed Friday.
SBS TV's popular variety show "Running Man" will be wrapped up once and for all in February amid an audience backlash over its producers' botched communication with cast members.
A cable TV series about a goblin under the spell of eternal life opened at the top of a chart measuring TV shows' popularity, data showed Tuesday.
South Korean boy band BIGBANG named "fabulousness" as what has kept the 10-year veterans on a roll, saying the band may call it off as soon as the public begins to see them lose the glitter.
South Korea's parliament on Friday passed a motion to impeach President Park Geun-hye over her alleged link to a corruption scandal involving her confidante that has paralyzed the government for the past several weeks.
Popular South Korean boy band EXO's concert scheduled for next weekend in Nanjing has been postponed in what could be possible fallout from Seoul's plan to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system on its soil, the group's agency said Wednesday.
The popular Korean action film "Train to Busan" will be remade in English, its distributor said Thursday.
Many international K-pop fans are eager to fully understand what their favorite stars are saying but not all of them can afford to learn the Korean language.
Jo Jung-suk and Gong Hyo-jin, who recently came off from playing the leads of hit rom-com TV drama "Jealousy Incarnate," have continued to ride huge waves of popularity on the big screen through their latest movies, waging a fierce competition in the weekend box office here, data showed Monday.
The United States and its partners should intensify sanctions and pressure on DPRK to force the communist regime to come back to the denuclearization negotiating table, the U.S. pointman on Pyongyang said Monday.
South Korea's ruling Saenuri Party appears to be on the verge of a breakup amid growing tension between rival factions over an impeachment vote against President Park Geun-hye, observers said Monday.
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