The sensational South Korean TV series "Descendants of the Sun" has beaten its own viewership record again, data showed Thursday.The KBS 2TV drama captured 34.8 percent of viewers across the country for the 15th episode on Wednesday, up 1.3 percentage points from 33.5 percent for the 13th one aired a week ago, data by Nielsen Korea showed.In the capital area, where viewership has usually been greater, the rate soared to 38.1 percent, up 3.1 percentage points from last week, while the figure for

South Korea's major television network KBS released a set of emoticons featuring the three main soldier characters of its sensational drama series "Descendants of the Sun" on Thursday, a publicist said. Emoticons of Yoo Si-jin, Seo Dae-young and Yun Myeong-ju are for use in KakaoTalk, a mobile and PC messenger program that is used by around 37 million people in the country with a population of 50 million, according to Bliss Media, a Seoul-based PR agency for the drama.The emoticons have photos o

State broadcaster KBS said Tuesday it will air a marathon of three "Descendants of the Sun" episodes on election day this week.Episodes 12 to 14 of the KBS 2TV series will air from 3:05 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, which is when the country's 20th general elections will be held.The 15th episode will be broadcast at 10 p.m. as scheduled, with the movie "Werewolf Boy," starring actor Song Joong-ki, to follow at 11:10 p.m.The military romance drama starring Song and actress Song Hye-kyo is the o

Actor Jang Keun-suk has called on his compatriots to vote in the upcoming general elections, producers of the show he's starring in said Tuesday."The Royal Gambler" production team released photos of the actor holding up a placard that reads, "Voting is 'daebak,'" the last word roughly translating into "bonanza" or "jackpot" in English."It's been a busy April. I peeled snake's skin with my teeth and rolled in mud," he was quoted as saying. "But I'll definitely vote on Wednesday no matter what."S

South Korean actor Seo Kang-joon met with hundreds of fans at his first solo meet-and-greet in Japan over the weekend, his talent agency said Tuesday.Seo held two fan meetings on Sunday at Osaka Business Park in the namesake city, which together drew more than a thousand people, Fantagio said.Seo stars as Baek In-ho in the tvN drama "Cheese in the Trap."He sang the show's theme song "Tearliner" and Eddy Kim's "The Manual," and put on a piano performance of Yiruma's "River Flows in You.""I was re

Reality show "We Got Married" has finished in the top 10 shows that created the most buzz in the final week of March, data showed Tuesday.The MBC show in which celebrities act as newlyweds garnered 215.8 points in CPI, an index developed by the entertainment giant CJ E&M and media research company Nielsen Korea. It climbed 15 notches to finish in eighth place for the week of March 28-April 3.Actress Kim So-yeon and actor Kwak Si-yang form a couple, with Joy of the girl group Red Velvet and Sungj

South Korean TV series "Descendants of the Sun" has topped 10 billion in the accumulated number of searches for the show on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.As of Friday morning, the drama depicting a romance between a soldier (Song Joong-ki) and a doctor (Song Hye-kyo) in a fictional war-torn country in the Mediterranean has been searched 10.3 billion times, the largest, on Weibo.But the buzz among Chinese fans in regards to the show has cooled recently.The drama recently was rated 8.1

South Korea's territorial network KBS will have its own section to show documentaries on Chinese video streaming sites, the station said on Friday.According to the network, it opened "KBS Documentary Zone" on China's major new media platforms including the video website iQiyi, in cooperation with LIC China, the country's largest producer and importer of documentaries. The section comprised of 24 Chinese-subtitled KBS documentaries such as "Korean Geographic," "Rain and Life," and "Colors, Four D

Seo Kang-joon, the star of the South Korean cable TV series "Cheese in the Trap" will meet his fans in Japan and China, his agency said on Friday.Seo will hold his first solo fan meeting "Welcome to My Place, Seo Kang-joon in Osaka" at the E.K. Hall in Osaka, Japan, on Sunday, Fantagio said."The event was supposed to be held once, but we decided to add another one in the evening since we got a flurry of requests from Japanese fans who couldn't get a seat at the sold-out event," an official at th