Korean indie rock band Hyukoh sold all 3,000 tickets for its upcoming concert in China within just one minute of them going on sale, demonstrating the band’s growing popularity in China, the band’s agency Duruduru AMC announced Tuesday.“Hyukoh is set to hold the solo concert ‘20/22’ in Shanghai on July 9, at the enthusiastic request of Chinese fans,” said the agency. The band previously captivated Chinese audiences at the country’s biggest music festival, the Strawberry Music Festival held in Sh

Hotel Lotte Co. is to award a concert production agency damages for canceling a concert featuring the internationally renowned rhythm and blues singer Ne-Yo, a Seoul court ruled Tuesday.The Seoul Central District Court found that the hotel had canceled the concert after organizing it, ruling in favor of the complainant. It ordered Hotel Lotte to pay 200 million won ($170,000) in damages to the concert production agency, whose name was not revealed.  According to the findings, the agency, which h

Lee Juno, a member of the hit 1990s boy band Seo Taiji and Boys, has been booked on a charge of sexual assault, reports said Monday. 　Lee, 49, is suspected of sexually abusing two women at an Itaewon club at around 3 a.m. on June 25, the reports said, citing the Yongsan Police Station. 　Police are currently analyzing video footage from surveillance cameras inside the club. “We will summon Lee for questioning once the basic investigations are complete,” police said. Lee Juno (The Korea Herald)　Po

Actor and singer Jang Keun-suk, nicknamed “Asia Prince” by fans for his popularity throughout the region, will be touring the continent in the coming months. 　The tour, titled “2016 Jang Keun Suk Asia Tour, It’s Show Time” will kick off on July 2 in Seoul. It will then move on to Tokyo and Osaka in Japan and Shanghai and Shenzhen in China, before moving on to other cities in Asia.  Actor Jang Keun-suk (Official Website)　The tour marks Jang’s return to the stage following his regional tour last y

Taeyeon of Korean girl group Girls' Generation enjoyed robust preorders of her second solo EP, the singer's management agency said Monday.As of Monday morning, the number of preordered copies of "Why" broke the 100,000 mark, S.M. Entertainment said in a press release. The EP will be released at midnight on online music streaming services. The music video of the album's title song, "Why," will be released at the same hour on the global video-sharing network YouTube. Taeyeon's new album also featu

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Germany-based Korean conductor Park June-sung is celebrating his multiple wins at this year’s 12th Aram Khachaturian International Competition, including a joint first place crown for conducting and three additional special prizes.  　Along with sharing his first place win with Miran Vaupotic of Croatia, Park was also awarded the Orchestra Award, Best Interpretation of Aram Khachaturian and the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra Special Prizes during the international competition, which was held in Y

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Rolling Stones are bringing an exhibit of more than 500 recording and artifacts from the band’s archive to New York City in November.　 “Exhibitionism” was launched in London in April. November will mark the exhibit’s North American debut at the Industria Superstudio in the West Village, it was announced Tuesday. 　 An image of Mick Jagger forms the backdrop of a re-created music studio as part of “Exhibitionism,” the interactive multimedia exhibition of the Rolling Stones’ ca

K-pop quartet Mamamoo is set to hold its first solo concerts from Aug. 13-14, two years after its debut, announced the group’s agency Rainbow Bridge World.　Titled “2016 Mamamoo Concert-moosical,” the concerts will take place at the Olympic Park Olympic Hall in Seoul. The venue is expected to accommodate more than 3,000 concertgoers. Poster for K-pop quartet Mamamoo’s first solo concert “2016 Mamamoo Concert-moosical” (Rainbow Bridge World)　The quartet debuted in June 2014 with “Mr. Ambiguous,” a

K-pop girl group Wonder Girls are set to release a new album “Why So Lonely” at midnight on July 4, announced the group’s agency JYP Entertainment.　At midnight on Tuesday, the group unveiled the release plan for the upcoming album via the official website wondergirls.jype.com.  Wonder Girls’ release plan for their upcoming album (JYP Entertainment)　It marks the first lead song written and composed by the band and not singer-songwriter and CEO of the agency Park Jin-young.　All the Wonder Girls ha