KINO – EVERYBODY’S GUILTY, BUT NO ONE’S TO BLAME NAKED INC South Korean artist KINO wants the world to meet the real him. The 27-year-old singer, who is also part of the popular K-pop group PENTAGON, released his second solo EP, Everybody’s Guilty, But No One’s To Blame, this week. Described as KINO’s most vulnerable…
TWS ‘play hard’ PLEDIS Entertainment It has been over a year since TWS, a K-pop group under PLEDIS Entertainment / HYBE, debuted with their EP, Sparkling Blue. Known for their youthful, refreshing sound, their rookie year was a success, earning several South Korean and Asian awards for their album and seven New Artist Awards. Their…
Group effort: Lotte Duty Free has a long history in attracting group visitors. Here are approximately 4,000 Chinese incentive tourists visiting its Myeongdong flagship store last year. Lotte Duty Free South Korea’s duty-free retailers, which have suffered from poor sales recoveries in the post-Covid era, including this year, might have an easier time as a…
WOODZ “I’ll Never Love Again” EDAM Entertainment Korean artist WOODZ used to care about people perceiving him as “cool,” not just himself as an artist, but also his music. He would ask himself, “Who am I, and why do I do music?” and he would answer that he “wanted to be cool,” being seen as…
The finale of ‘Squid Game’ has failed to capture the media interest of its debut season No Ju-han/Netflix © 2025 Netflix survival thriller series Squid Game has ended its run with a season which got less than half the media coverage it had during the month following its debut four years ago. The Korean streaming…