Singer Eru was booked for investigation Tuesday for allegedly driving while under the influence of alcohol, police said. The 39-year-old singer, whose real name is Cho Sung-hyun, crashed his car into a guard rail on Seoul's Gangbyeon expressway around 11:25 p.m. Monday, according to the Yongsan Police Station. His blood alcohol content exceeded a level high enough to have his driver's license s...

Veteran duo TVXQ! will celebrate the 19th anniversary of its debut on Dec. 26 with a livestream, according to label SM Entertainment on Monday. Yunho and Changmin will chat online with fans looking back at their music career and also play games and put on live performances on their YouTube channel. The two will also be part of SM Town: SMCU Palace, the label’s project that includes winter speci...

NewJeans, a rookie group that has dominated the K-pop scene this year, dropped the track “Ditto” from the upcoming single album “OMG” on Monday at 6 p.m. The release comes four months after the girl group made its debut in August with the breakout album “New Jeans.” “Ditto," a reinterpretation of the Baltimore club music genre, was specially produced for NewJeans’ official fandom Bunnies. The g...

CEO Kim Jin-woo of Mamamoo's label RBW gives behind-the-scenes info

R&B singer-songwriter Saay holds her first solo concert in Seoul

NewJeans will open two pop-up stores in Seoul from Dec. 23 to Jan. 21, 2023, according to agency Ador on Friday. It will be a collaborative work with dessert maker Nudake and offer five exclusive types of cakes. The cakes appear in the music video of “OMG,” the titular track from its upcoming single album that will roll out on Jan. 2. Rearranged songs of the rookie girl group will be played as b...

Hook Entertainment, the former longtime agency of singer and actor Lee Seung-gi, said Friday that it has settled the invoice for Lee’s long overdue payments for digital streams of his songs. A total of 4.1 billion won ($3.13 million) which includes 2.9 billion won for digital streams of the artist’s songs and 1.2 billion for the arrears of interest has been paid to the artist by the agency. Acc...

Customers can buy the medals from South Korea’s commemoration token retailer Poongsan Hwadong Corp., Hyundai Department’s online shops, Shinhan Bank branches across South Korea, KOMSCO Mall, Weverse Shop and Gmarket Global. The medals will be available for sale until Dec. 25. KOMSCO plans to allocate some sales profits from the medals for promoting South Korean cultural content.

Ily:1 will release its first EP early next month, agency FNC ENM said Thursday. It will be the first physical album from the six-member act that has dropped two digital singles so far – “Love in Bloom” and “Que Sera Sera” – since debuting in April. The second single entered Billboard’s World Digital Song Sales chart at No. 6 in June and topped four of Amazon Music’s charts, including for bestse...

Girl group Dreamcatcher is taking the month off after wrapping up all its promotional activities, Dreamcatcher Company said Wednesday. The group has been busy throughout the year and will recharge. Handong, the only non-Korean member from the seven-piece act, will spend time with family in China, the company added. Dreamcatcher won first place on a television music chart show for the first time...

K-pop groups created overseas with foreign members by Korean labels gain popularity, expand K-pop spectrum

A total of 35 musical acts and 18 actors attended the show Tuesday night. Leeteuk of Super Junior and Jang Won-young partnered for the second time to host the event The AAA is an annual entertainment award that kicked off in 2016. This is the first time the event took place live with an audience since it was last held in 2019 in Hanoi, Vietnam. This year's show was also livestreamed via various ...

Boy band WEi dropped a Christmas single on Tuesday, dedicating a winter song to its fans. Special single “Gift For You” also celebrates the 800 days of its music career, said agency WE Entertainment. Jang Daehyeon participated in writing melodies and lyrics of all tracks, including the focus track of the same title. The band unveiled all songs from the single album in advance at its first fan c...

BTS member Suga might serve his military duty as a social service agent, according to local news reports citing military officials. Serving as a social service agent is an alternative form of military service in South Korea, for those deemed unfit to serve as soldiers in a military base due to a number of factors such as health, financial difficulties and family situation. In the case of Suga, ...

Suga of K-pop sensation BTS will carry out his military service as a social service agent, military and music industry sources said Tuesday. They said the 29-year-old rapper was assigned to be a social service agent instead of an active-duty soldier. But details, including when his enlistment will be, remain unknown. Suga, born in 1993, had his service deferred until the end of next year under ...