When Kim Chi struts down a runway, the audience can’t help but drop their collective jaws at his flawless face, feminine gestures and highly aesthetic avant-garde fashion that glitters under the stage lighting. His name, or even drag culture, may still be unfamiliar to some. But for drag fans, Kim Chi is one of the most influential drag queens around. He was one of the top three finalists on season 8 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” which aired in the US last year. Drag queen Kim Chi poses during a rece

Comedian Kang Ho-dong walks up to the stage and instead of his usual booming, energetic snarl that fans have grown accustomed to, a dreamy voice sings a beautiful melody. Just like its awkwardly hilarious teaser video, “Shadow Singer” will have established stars lip-synching to the voices of singers hidden in obscurity. “I thought about what unknown singers lacked. That was when I came up with the idea that we can ‘lend’ them the popularity and recognition that they need,” said producer Min Chul

Korean YouTube channels with the highest rate of subscriber growth in the first half of 2017 were those featuring kids’ content or music, the online streaming platform announced. 　Of the 10 channels with the largest increase in subscribers, six were music channels while four were kids’ content channels, according to statistics released by YouTube Wednesday.　The channel that achieved the biggest growth in subscribers was Kids TV HD EggVideos.com. The channel’s videos feature coloring exercises, c

Young women looking to become the next Twice, Girls’ Generation and Black Pink will learn from some of the nation’s prominent entertainers and trainers at Korea’s first “Idol School,” and viewers will get access to every step of the process.Mnet on Wednesday held a press conference in Seoul for its new TV show and project designed to train teenaged girls to debut as K-pop girl group.  From left: Rado and Choi Kyu-sung of Black Eyed Pilseung, Kim Hee-chul, Stephanie, Lee Soon-jae, Bada, Jang Jin-

KBS 2TV's "Fight For My Way" continued its reign on a TV popularity index for the second week, data showed Tuesday.Starring Park Seo-joon and Kim Ji-won, the Money-Tuesday drama scored 279.1 points on the Content Power Index (CPI), becoming the most popular TV program from June 26-July 2.CPI, developed by entertainment company CJ E&M and Nielsen Korea, measures the popularity of TV shows based on the number of views of related news stories, online search tallies and buzz on social media. (KBS)Th

Fifteen YouTube stars creating videos themed on Korean culture from around the world are visiting South Korea at the invitation of the government, the trip's organizer said Tuesday.The Korea Foundation for International Culture Exchange said the creators from 12 countries arrived in the country Tuesday for a nine-day program in Seoul and the southern tourist city of Jeonju to have a hands-on experience on traditional and contemporary Korean culture.They include Joel, a British YouTuber specializ

Yoo Yeon-seok has scored the lead male role in the next show by hitmaker scriptwriter Kim Eun-sook, who penned “Descendants of the Sun” and “Guardian: The Great and Lonely God.” 　Yoo has been cast as the lead of “Mr. Sunshine,” set to air early next year, according to reports. 　 Yoo Yeon-seok (King Kong Entertainment)Yoo is to play the “intriguing anti-hero” Dong-mae, reports say, a character who is born to a low class family in Korea in the 1900s, and escapees to Japan in pursuit of a new life.

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Korean-American star Daniel Dae Kim spoke up Wednesday regarding his departure from the long-running CBS drama “Hawaii Five-0,” reportedly due to pay inequality.　Last Friday, entertainment trade magazine Variety reported that Kim and his co-star Grace Park, a Canadian-American actress of Korean heritage, were exiting the police-action show after seven years, having failed to reach an agreement with CBS on pay equality with their white co-stars Alex O’Loughlin and Scott Caan.　“Though I have made

Actress Kim Tae-ri has been cast alongside actor Lee Byung-hun for the upcoming drama series “Mr. Sunshine” (tentative title), slated to air early next year.　Kim will be the female lead in the show, a melodrama about a Joseon-era man who becomes an American soldier and returns to the country that abandoned him, the show’s production company Hwa and Dam Pictures said Thursday. Kim will play the daughter of a Joseon-era nobleman.　The show will mark the small screen debut of Kim, who starred in las

Comedian Kim Young-chul accompanied President Moon Jae-in on the presidential jet headed to Berlin for the G20 Summit.Kim Young-chul performs at a luncheon for overseas Koreans living in Berlin on Wednesday, local time. (Instagram)Kim performed at a luncheon Wednesday attended by some 200 Koreans living in Germany.Comedian Kim Young-chul (Herald Pop)Kim comically sang his recently released song “Ring Ring” but barely incited laughter from the crowd, according to reports.(doo@heraldcorp.com)

Actress Song Hye-kyo, who made a surprise announcement of her wedding plans with actor Song Joong-ki, recently made a secret 100 million-won donation to a children's hospital, sources said Thursday.The actress made the donation to the Seoul National University Children's Hospital in May, on the occasion of Children's Day, according to hospital officials. Song reportedly asked the hospital to keep the donation a secret. Last year, Song contributed her voice to KBS 1TV's children's documentary tit

Song Joong-ki dropped a stick of entertainment media dynamite on the country early Wednesday morning with the news he would marry his former costar, stunning fans and media alike and proving once again why he is one of the hottest young actors in Korea.He and Song Hye-kyo jointly announced via their agencies that they would get hitched on Oct. 31, after repeatedly denying that they were in a romantic relationship. Song Joong-ki poses at a press conference in Seoul on Feb. 22, 2016. (KBS)It was o

After repeated denials, couple makes surprise wedding announcement

From stars of “Descendants of the Sun” to a soon-to-be married couple in real life, maybe it is time to review the previous photos of the Songs taken together. We don’t know at point of the TV drama Song Hye-kyo and Song Joong-ki fell in love with each other, but photos that have been shared via the actress’s Instagram account show the couple were already intimate enough to cozy up together and look like a couple. Here are some traces of the “Song couple” before they went official. (Song Hye-kyo