South Korean boy band GOT7 will return to the stage with a new dance-pop song "Fly," the group's management said on Thursday. The seven-member act will showcase "Fly," the title track of its latest half-length album "FLIGHT LOG: DEPARTURE," on Thursday evening on MCountdown, a signature music show of local cable television network Mnet, JYP Entertainment said. The new album was released on Monday with double title tracks, "Fly" and "Home Run." "Fly," composed and lyricized by Ear Attack and "fro

PerformanceMarch 24, 2016

South Korean actor Lee Kwang-soo from the popular TV variety show "Running Man" has been cast for the first web-based drama to be produced by terrestrial network KBS, a PR agency in Seoul said.According to The Tik Tok, Lee will star as the male protagonist Jo Seok in "Sound of Mind," based on the popular web cartoon of the same name by cartoonist Jo Seok.The autobiographical cartoon has appeared since September 2006 on the country's biggest portal site Naver, and has been a sleeper hit among Kor

TelevisionMarch 24, 2016

South Korean boy band WINNER demonstrated its high potential to do well overseas by drawing the top viewership on a Chinese entertainment show, the K-pop group's management agency said Thursday. In the latest episode of the Chinese variety show "Happy Camp," also known by its local title "Kuaile Dabenying," the five-member act flaunted its skills, YG Entertainment said. Kang Seung-yoon, Song Min-ho, Kim Jin-woo, Lee Seung-hoon and Nam Tae-hyun amused the Chinese audience despite a language barri

TelevisionMarch 24, 2016

Eating exotic and wild species is nothing new in China, just like a saying well known inGuangzhou: "Chinese will eat everything with four legs except tables and eat everything that swims except a submarine."Their openness to new ingredients and recipes strikes a similar note, as South Korean cosmetics companies embrace such quirky ingredients as snail slime, horse oil and pig skin collagen as long as they are considered good for the skin.With ingredients ranging from an extract from cocoons, goa

CultureMarch 24, 2016

South Korean drama "Descendants of the Sun" has broken the 30 percent viewership mark here after nine episodes, data showed Thursday.The series, starring actor Song Joong-ki and actress Song Hye-kyo, was watched by 30.4 percent of TV viewers across South Korea on Wednesday, data by Nielsen Korea showed, marking the first time the nationwide figure has surpassed the milestone.The show was the most popular among viewers in Seoul at 33.9 percent. In and around Seoul, the figure was slightly lower a

TelevisionMarch 24, 2016

Expat hypnotist Gabriel Dye will perform a stage hypnosis show in Seoul on Saturday.In the show, Dye will introduce ideas about the subconscious and the workings of the brain. He will also choose volunteers from the audience to hypnotize, aiming to show how the mind works in a humorous way. There will be no nudity or other adult content in the show.The show begins 7:45 p.m. in the Caramata Music Company Studio in Haebangchon. The entrance fee is 10,000 won ($8.60), which includes a drink.(paulke

Expat LivingMarch 23, 2016

Gwangju International Center is seeking Korean host families for its Feel@Home homestay program.As part of the program, families host foreign visitors for a day and introduce them to Korean culture. This round of the program, which will take place on April 23, will host development trainees studying at Chunnam National University.The students are between 26 and 43 years old. Families should speak English and will be matched with students, taking into consideration students’ requests.The deadline

Expat LivingMarch 23, 2016

Seoul Foreign Culture and Craft Market will run again in Haebangchon on Sunday, selling food and craft items.The market will take place at Haebangchon Quandary and V-Lounge, in Itaewon, Seoul.Food items will include pierogis, or Polish dumplings, biltong, a type of dried beef, chili bites, jams and pies. Items such as clothing, jewelry, soaps and candles will also be on sale. An artist providing caricature portraits on the spot will as be available.In addition to the regular market, there will b

Expat LivingMarch 23, 2016

"I don't think there is 'too much' in expressing true emotion. I hope people could be more expressive in real life," said Kim Ji-won, one of the heroines of the sensationally popular drama "Descendants of the Sun." "To be honest, I was amazed to realize (through the script) that there could be so many ways to express your love," the 23-year-old said during an interview with Yonhap News Agency at a cafe in southern Seoul on Wednesday.The KBS 2TV series is about a doctor and an Army captain who fa

TelevisionMarch 23, 2016

LONDON (AFP) - The demo vinyl record that persuaded late music producer George Martin to sign The Beatles -- a “unique” piece of music history -- was sold on Tuesday to an unnamed British collector.　The record sold for 77,500 pounds ($110,000), a spokeswoman for the Omega Auctions, based in Warrington in northern England, told AFP.　The price tag was well above the 10,000 pounds initial estimate, showing the object’s “historical importance,” the spokeswoman said, adding that bids had come in also

PerformanceMarch 23, 2016

The upcoming TV series "My Lawyer, Mr. Jo" will follow a prosecutor's search for justice in a world where the rich get richer and the poor even poorer, producers said Wednesday.Starring actor Park Shin-yang and actress Kang So-ra, the riches-to-rags story based on a web cartoon series will inherit KBS 2TV's Monday-Tuesday night time slots from "Babysitter," which flopped with a viewing rate of 3.5 percent.With another KBS 2TV drama, "Descendants of the Sun," making a splash in South Korea and Ch

TelevisionMarch 23, 2016

It's almost dinner time. A middle-aged Korean man ushers a racially diverse group of young people into a dimly-lit restaurant in Seoul."Before college, they were troublemakers. Today, they are Treblemakers. Please welcome them with a round of applause!" With that cheesy line delivered in somewhat broken English, the college a cappella group walks in, with the 17 members wearing a matching black T-shirt and a pair of blue jeans.The act's opener is a song that apparently starts out as Ariana Grand

PerformanceMarch 23, 2016