South Korean entertainment and gaming stocks climbed on Friday, defying a broader market drop as investors sought refuge in sectors seen as immune to...

Exports of Korean popular music, or K-pop, have seen a significant surge in recent months, driven by increasing demand from China and Japan, accordin...

South Korea’s snack exports soared to a record high in February, surpassing $40 million for the first time, as global demand surged amid the su...

BEIJING – China will likely lift its ban on Hallyu, or Korean popular culture in the country, as early as May, moving away from its “wolf...

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic a few years back, social distancing was the rule of life. People stayed at home, with many of them killing tim...

Disputes between HYBE Co. and its label behind popular girl group NewJeans has made headlines as an almost unheard-of conflict in the K-pop industry....

South Korea's Kakao Entertainment Corp., a unit of mobile platform giant Kakao Corp., is seeking renewed growth through corporate restructuring and c...

Kangwon Land Inc., the operator of South Korea’s only casino open to locals, has long been struggling with declining visitors.Located in a remo...

South Korea’s telecommunications companies, besieged by the onslaught of foreign over-the-top (OTT) players such as Netflix and YouTube, are gr...

SM Entertainment Co., a South Korean music label widely credited as the pioneer of K-pop, has emerged as a new battlefield between HYBE Co., the agen...

Kim Jae-young, founder and chief executive of Lionheart Studio Corp., the company behind South Korea’s most popular mobile game Odin, has joine...

Blackpink, the female K-pop idol group, will hold an in-game concert, the first such event by Korean pop artists, in collaboration with Krafton Inc.'...

KT Corp., a major South Korean telecommunications company, on Thursday unveiled an ambitious goal to become the country’s leading media and con...

South Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co. said on Monday it will invest 100 billion won ($82.3 million) in KT Studio Genie, a content product...

Kakao Entertainment Corp., a unit of South Korea's top mobile messenger app, is in the final stages of talks to buy a controlling stake in SM Enterta...

SEOUL — In the latest sign that life is going back to something that resembles the pre-pandemic past, BTS is returning to the stage in Seoul.The...

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has increased its stake in South Korea's leading gaming company NCSoft Corp. to become its fourth-l...

South Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co. has put its plan to split off its content business on the shelf in the face of growing opposition fr...

It appears the world’s top boy band BTS will have to serve in the South Korean military as lawmakers in the country have so far failed to agree...

Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada has praised South Korean movies such as the Oscar-winning Parasite and drama series such as Squid Game ...

The world’s No. 1 boy band BTS became the first Asian act to take the prize for artist of the year at the American Music Awards, one of the top...

K-pop artists such as BTS and TWICE are set to resume global live concerts – suspended by the global pandemic for about two years – as co...

Shares of DearU Co., a K-pop fandom platform in South Korea, fell on Thursday, the day after a strong Kosdaq debut, which briefly put the company&rs...

Kakao Corp., best known for South Korea’s top mobile messenger app KakaoTalk, has become the country’s top platform company in terms of r...

HYBE Co., the label behind BTS, is expected to launch non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for assets of the world’s top boy band alongside the operator ...

South Korea’s entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co. has acquired Moho Film, a domestic production company owned by Park Chan-wook, one of the cou...

“It was not like an M&A negotiation but rather an audition by Lee Soo-man,” said a source at a company that is looking to buy a stake...

DearU Co, a K-pop fandom platform in South Korea, priced its initial public offering above the price range on Thursday thanks to heated demand. The I...

The world’s biggest boy band is joining forces with the world’s largest music company.South Korea’s BTS has agreed to a distributio...