Girls’ Generation (SM Entertainment)SM Entertainment, the nation’s largest entertainment agency, will launch a worldwide talent search next year. SM is slated to hold a large-scale global audition with agency representatives heading to nine countries and 28 cities across Asia, Europe and North America, the agency announced Wednesday. And for the first time for a Korean agency, SM will take auditions to Russia, where K-pop has slowly begun to spread and taken on a life of its own. SM is home to s

Robin (center) and the Sosim Boys. (Doctor Nine Media)French TV personality Robin Deiana from the popular JTBC talk show “Nonsummit” will be showing off his music talent by collaborating with the folk-acoustic duo Sosim Boys on their upcoming EP.The album, titled “Shining Star,” is slated to drop Friday, according to an announcement by Doctor Nine Media on Wednesday. On the EP, Deiana will take on the role of a French rapper. The album is also said to have been produced with the help of local R&

EXO. (SM Entertainment)Just in time to ring in the holiday season, K-pop group EXO will release the group’s first live concert album on Monday, SM Entertainment said Wednesday. The live album will feature EXO’s previous concert series at the Seoul Olympic Park’s Gymnastic Stadium from May 23-25. The upcoming release will include a total of 36 tracks, including the group’s monster hits “Growl,” “Overdose,” “Wolf” and “History.” Along with a digital album, EXO will also be releasing the 2-disc phy

In town and in the mood to see Psy perform his addictively enthralling galloping horse moves? Whether or not your visit coincides with his live concert schedule, you can dance along with the monster K-pop star on almost any day of the week in futuristic, digital fashion. Less than a year since the world’s first K-pop hologram performance center was launched, Klive has used its pioneering technology to attract more than 50,000 K-pop lovers from around the world for a truly cutting-edge and out-of

As the countdown to 2015 approaches, the assessment of the year’s best songs, albums and industry newcomers is in full swing. Rounding out the year, Billboard’s top picks of the 10 best K-pop albums of 2014 land the feisty K-pop icons of 2NE1 the crown. The ladies’ second full-length album, “Crush,” was praised for cleverly exploring hybrid genres including reggae and R&B and landed them at the No. 1 spot, beating out other much awaited K-pop heavy-weight comebacks such as Seo Taiji and Rain.The

Following a special collaborative live performance in United States last month, noted ballad singer Gummy is reuniting with male R&B duo Fly to the Sky to hold three concerts in Seoul later this month. Brian Joo and Hwanhee of Fly to the Sky will be joining Gummy onstage once again for the artist’s upcoming live collaboration concert series, “The Attraction,” to be held from Dec. 23 to Christmas Day at the Kyung Hee University’s Peace Amphitheater.The three local artists claim to share a tight-k

Alongside the likes of Sam Smith, who shares a three-way tie with the year’s most Grammy Awards nods at six, and Meghan Trainor whose fame skyrocketed internationally after the release of her Grammy-nominated single “All About the Bass,” the YG Entertainment newbie members of WINNER have been named one of the world’s top breakout artists of the year by U.S. cable music program Fuse TV. At the No. 11 spot on Fuse’s “13 Top Breakout Artists of 2014” rankings, the five-member rookie K-pop sensation

Following the shock exit earlier this year of K-pop idol star Jessica from Girls’ Generation, the now eight-member girl group has revealed that it will release a new single in Japan.According to an announcement by SM Entertainment, Girls’ Generation will release a new Japanese single sometime early next year, which will mark its first release since the departure of Jessica. The members of Girls’ Generation recently performed in front of their Japanese fans for the first time since becoming an ei

A myriad of rumors began circulating online Wednesday morning surrounding up-and-coming American R&B singer Jeff Bernat, who reportedly posted a tweet hinting at a possible collaboration with popular K-pop idol star Taeyang of Big Bang. According to a number of reports, Bernat tweeted a message suggesting that he would be working with the Big Bang star on Tuesday, but quickly deleted it soon after posting, leaving fans questioning its veracity. In a previous interview with The Korea Herald in Oc

JYP Entertainment fans can now hear the never-before-released collaborations by their favorite JYP artists with the release of the agency’s live concert album, “One Mic.”K-pop artists from JYPE, including agency founder Park Jin-young, recently held the Seoul leg of their JYP Nation concert tour in August, gathering 28 of the agency’s stars to perform a show that featured a wide variety of arrangements of some of its past hits. Previous shows were held in Tokyo and Hong Kong. JYPE is home to som

The music video of South Korean rapper Psy’s latest single “Hangover” was the most viewed K-pop clip on YouTube this year, the global video-sharing site said Tuesday. The song, debuted in June and featuring U.S. rapper Snoop Dogg, is a follow-up to Psy’s international hit “Gangnam Style,” which has drawn more than 2.1 billion world views and prompted YouTube to upgrade its viewer count system since the number of clicks went over the bounds. The exact figure for hits on the video clip is not avai

Going on nearly 11 years in the K-pop game, the members of TVXQ kicked off their latest international concert tour with two sold-out performances in Seoul over the weekend. As the duo’s first solo concert in Korea in nearly two years, the first leg of TVXQ’s “T1Story” live concert tour attracted 24,000 fans, who flocked to Olympic Park’s Gymnastics Stadium on Saturday and Sunday. Looking to maintain their originality and remain relevant as one of K-pop’s veteran acts, U-Know Yunho and Max Changm

Following the advent of Psy and his global hit song “Gangnam Style,” K-pop gained an unprecedented level of international attention, encouraging government and local music firms to continue their efforts to export K-pop. With geographical closeness facilitating cultural exchanges between Korea and ASEAN nations, hardcore fandoms of Korean music, movies and dramas ― referred to as hallyu, or the Korean Wave ― have sprung up. Idol stars ― from rookie groups to big-time acts like Big Bang or Girls’