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On September 7th, Kookmin Ilbo reported, ŌĆ£A parent company of convenience store chain is preparing to take legal action against Netflix and the drama production company of D.P. in response to the malicious description of the store owner in the drama series.‘ŌĆØ According to the news report, Korea Seven, the subsidiary of Lotte Group that operates 7-11 convenience store chains, recently met a large law firm to discuss taking court action (filing an injunction) Āagainst Netflix and the drama production company....

Youth MT Āwill feature a star-studded cast from Love in the Moonlight, Itaewon Class Āand The Sound of Magic. Upon the announcement, fans rushed to the comment section and wrote: ŌĆ£My heart almost exploded the moment I saw the cast lineup,ŌĆØ ŌĆ£I canŌĆÖt believe that they will be starring in one showŌĆØ and ŌĆ£It is a dream team!ŌĆØ Fans are extremely excited about the new show as it will be starring stellar casts from three internationally famous dramas....

According to Big Data analysis reports, Jimin topped the individual boy group member reputation ranking this month. He was followed closely by the rest of the BTS members. These were the top 3 members: Jimin ranked #1 with 9,531,956 points; Jungkook ranked at #2 with 7,445,171 points; V came in at #3 with 6,968,585 points. RM, Jin, and J-Hope ranked #5 ŌĆō 7, respectively! These are the rest of the rankings for September:

On Jan 27, KFA held a delegate meeting at the Shinmun-ro Soccer Center in Seoul and announced the new executive branch by appointing a total of 22 executives and two auditors, including six vice-chairmen, five subcommittees and 11 board members. The 54th executive branch consists of 29 directors (including the chairman) and two auditors. During the meeting, the selection of the remaining seven executives was delegated to Chung Mong Gyu....

Big Ocean ENM announced on the 29th that he has recently been cast for Idol Recipe. In the film, Moon Jong Up gets to play the role of Jang Joon, a genius composer of a nameless idol group ŌĆśBella.ŌĆÖ The character has the role of making positive influences, as he composes BellaŌĆÖs theme song in order to revive the team for a comeback. Idol Recipe is a human-comedy idol music movie about an unknown idol group ŌĆśBellaŌĆÖ succeeding as they enter the Billboards, after overcoming conflicts with the evil manager who tried to sell them out....

BLACKPINK starts of the week at #1 on NEW K.IDŌĆÖs Idol Chart. This Sunday marks the groupŌĆÖs 5th debut anniversary, and in celebration, they have released BLACKPINK THE MOVIE globally across 100 countries. The film highlights live performances of hit songs and interactions with fans and BLINK fandom throughout their five-year journey. Performances from ŌĆ£IN YOUR AREAŌĆØ in 2018 and this yearŌĆÖs ŌĆ£THE SHOWŌĆØ and never before released interviews reveal the groupŌĆÖs love for performing live for their fans....

BTSŌĆÖs newest smash, ŌĆ£Butter,ŌĆØ debuted at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100. According to Billboard, this is BTSŌĆÖs 4th song that landed on the top stop, following ŌĆ£Dynamite,ŌĆØ ŌĆ£Life Goes On,ŌĆØ and ŌĆ£Savage Love.ŌĆØ Billboard lavished praises, saying, ŌĆ£The song marks the superstar South Korean septetŌĆÖs fourth Hot 100 No. 1, all in the last nine months, marking any actŌĆÖs quickest accumulation of four initial leaders since Justin Timberlake a decade-and-a-half ago....

Today, multiple outlets reported that Jin will enlist on December 13th at a recruit training center in Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi Province. After completing his five-week training, he will be serving in the front-line troops. An official shared, ŌĆ£BTS members have expressed their wish to send off Jin together, so they will be visiting Yeoncheon, where the recruit training center is located.ŌĆØ Following the report, the singer took to his Weverse account to write, ŌĆ£News I did not intend to go public has been published, but ARMYs, you shouldnŌĆÖt come to the training center....

On Sept. 25, Big Hit Entertainment released an official statement regarding the cancellation of the offline concert through Weverse. ŌĆ£Hello, this is Big Hit Entertainment. We would like to provide information regarding the ŌĆ£BTS MAP OF THE SOUL ON:EŌĆØ offline (in-person) concert. We have been planning the in-person component of our concert in order to try to create an opportunity for our artists and fans to meet, despite the challenges created by COVID-19 and limited by the number of guests we can accommodate due to the current situation....

At midnight on Sept. 28 KST, BTS announced the release of BE (Deluxe Edition) through Weverse and BTSŌĆÖs official Twitter. BE contains BTSŌĆÖs story, ŌĆ£our lives continue even in new daily lives,ŌĆØ even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and will be a consolation to fans around the world. BTS has been releasing the process of working on the new album through its official YouTube channel ŌĆ£BANGTANTV.ŌĆØ In particular, the album is all the more eye-catching as the group personally partici[ated in the overall production, including music, concept, composition, and design....

According to the latest chart released by Oricon on the 6th (based on the data collected from June 28th to July 4th), BTS, THE BEST, ranked at No.1 on the Weekly Album chart. Starting from June 28th, they stayed at No.1 for three weeks straight and sold 885,000 copies total. This year, BTS is the only singer who maintained to be on the top of the chart for three weeks straight....

On Oct. 7, the Korea Society, a Korea-US nonprofit foundation for friendship, presented the Van Fleet Award, an award given to individuals or organizations that have promoted mutual understanding and friendship between the two countries since 1992. The award is named after Gen. James Van Fleet, who served as commander of the 8th US Army during the Korean War and founded the Korea Society in 1957. BTS has been named the winner of this yearŌĆÖs award....

According to SPOTV NEWS on February 10th, Chun Woo Hee will be starring in tvNŌĆÖs upcoming drama Beneficial Fraud (literal title) written by Cho Seul Ah and directed by Lee Soo Hyun. The actress has received rave reviews for brilliant performance in her previous works. As she had perfectly immersed herself into her characters in various shows and movies, many are excited to see how she will deliver her role in the upcoming drama....

An official at the Seoul Museum of Art told Sports Kyunghyang, ŌĆ£A died while working at home, and itŌĆÖs true that she appeared on tvNŌĆÖs entertainment program in October last year.ŌĆØ ŌĆ£There was no bullying at work,ŌĆØ he stressed. ŌĆ£She has never to get transferred to a different department. We donŌĆÖt know why she made such an extreme choice. The police is conducting the investigation now.ŌĆØ According to the Jongno Police Station in Seoul, a civil servant in her 20s who works at the Seoul Museum of Art made an extreme choice at home....

Seohyun shared, ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs a ŌĆśrespecting each otherŌĆÖs tasteŌĆÖ romance that completes ŌĆśdifferentnessŌĆÖ with ŌĆśspecialness.ŌĆÖ I hope you enjoy the movie with your friends and lovers.ŌĆØ Lee Jun Young also stressed, ŌĆ£I hope you enjoy the movie while thinking that itŌĆÖs not wrong but just different.ŌĆØ However, after the movie was released, a debate began on social media as to whether it was appropriate to bring BDSM into the light. These are the negative reactions....

The brilliant collaboration stage of ASTROŌĆÖs Moon Bin and BillieŌĆÖs Moon Sua has recently gone viral. Being actual siblings, they showed off their close brother-sister chemistry as they gave the iconic ŌĆ£Candy In My YearsŌĆØ cover performance by Baek Ji Young and 2 PMŌĆÖs Ok Taecyeon. ĀK-pop idols usually create those special performances to spice up award ceremonies and festivals. Team combinations vary from their gender to experience on the field, and because they collaborate for special occasions, such surprise units only last for one stage....

The Billboard is the most credible and authoritative music chart of popular music, and it is an indicator of music around the world. K-pop artists, starting with Wonder Girls in 2009, are producing remarkable results on this chart. And with the triumphant success of BTS, many artists are releasing albums intending to enter the Billboard charts. These are the five songs that achieved significant milestones on the Hot 100, the main chart of the Billboard....

┬Ā SingleŌĆÖs Inferno According to FlixPatrol, a global OTT ranking site, SingleŌĆÖs Inferno ranked 10th in the worldwide Netflix TV show category on the 2nd. The show also ranked first in Korea, Singapore, and Vietnam. In particular, the show beat out The Silent Sea for the first time and took the top spot. ItŌĆÖs also ranked 2nd in Hong Kong and Thailand, 3rd in Malaysia and Taiwan, and 4th in Indonesia and Morocco....

According to Yeolmae Entertainment, director Im will direct the nori film Soho Sins, co-produced by the American production company 2W Network. The film, based on the novel written by world-renowned art magazine ŌĆ£Art in AmericaŌĆØ editor Richard Vine, depicts the shady underbelly of the NY art scene through the murder of Amanda Oliver, a wife of the New York art sceneŌĆÖs golden couple. Currently, Vine and director Im are working on the script and the film, said to be a 33 billion KRW (about 30 million USD) project, will begin pre-production in July and start filming in the second half of the year....

On the 5th, Do Kyung Soo appeared as a guest on KBS radio Park Myung SooŌĆÖs Radio Show to promote his upcoming drama Bad Prosecutor. Introducing his role as someone who ŌĆ£needs to root out corruption and make things right,ŌĆØ Do Kyung Soo explained that the show will offer exhilarating fun. When Park Myung Soo asked him, ŌĆ£Are you also a type who canŌĆÖt stand seeing injustice?ŌĆØ the artist answered, ŌĆ£I think so....