K-pop sensations BTS ignited a wave of interest in South Korean culture that now extends from food to cosmetics.
Bang Si-hyuk, who created the supergroup, denies defrauding investors before his $7.3bn company went public.
South Korea welcomed a record 2.06 million foreign visitors in March, led by Chinese arrivals, government data showed on Thursday, with tourism spending lifted by the comeback tour of K-pop supergroup BTS after a years-long hiatus. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said the monthly record helped lift first-quarter arrivals by 23 per cent from a year ago to 4.76 million, also a record for a first quarter. It attributed the trend to the “worldwide popularity of [Korean] culture”,...
The megastars kick off their grandest tour, the largest in K-pop history, in Seoul on Thursday after a nearly four-year hiatus.
It boils down to a single, loaded question: Is BTS straying from K-pop in trying to woo the world?