Contact

Hallyu Now covers K-pop and Korean drama news read from Korean-language sources. It is written and edited by one person based in South Korea.

Email: ssbranding95@gmail.com

Things worth writing in about:

  • A correction. If a number, a date, a price or a quotation here does not match the source, say which post and which line. Corrections are made on the post itself and the change is noted in the text rather than made silently.
  • A source I missed. Several posts end by saying what I could not find. If you have the paper, the notice or the survey I was looking for, that is the most useful mail I can get.
  • A question about something in a post. If the answer is not in the post, I will say so rather than guess.
  • Business enquiries. Sponsored or affiliate arrangements are disclosed in the post itself when they exist.

You can also leave a comment on any post. Comments are read.

Replies usually take a few days. Korea Standard Time is UTC+9, so mail sent from Europe or the Americas is normally read the following morning.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Lee Chang-dong Films on Netflix by Country (No US Date Yet)

Image
Netflix said on Monday, September 14 that it is widening where Lee Chang-dong's six earlier films can be streamed, two days after Possible Love won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the 83rd Venice Film Festival. Financial News and Edaily carried the Korean release late Monday afternoon KST, and the English copy is up on WebWire . If you are in the US or Canada, nothing has been added to your library yet. The headline in most Korean outlets was "글로벌 공개" (global release). The country lists inside the release are a good deal narrower than that, so I've laid them out film by film below. The three lists Netflix splits the six films into three pairs, and each pair has its own set of countries. Green Fish (1997) and Secret Sunshine (2007) have been streaming since late August in Italy, the UK, France, Australia and New Zealand. Peppermint Candy (1999) and Oasis (2002) followed on September 4 in Italy and Spain. Poetry (2010) and Burning (2018) are described ...
Read more

NCT WISH Confirm 'I SPY' Comeback for October 12

Image
NCT WISH just put a date on their next era. The six-member group confirmed their fourth mini album, "I SPY," for October 12 at 6 p.m. KST, dropping a trailer alongside the announcement this morning, per Soompi . No tracklist yet, no concept explanation, just a date and a mood. The trailer's first chapter is subtitled "Confused Boy" — I checked the upload against NCT WISH's own channel before trusting it, since teaser leaks this early tend to circulate from anywhere. A Fast Follow-Up to Their Biggest Album Yet NCT WISH is a six-member unit, the sixth NCT sub-unit, that debuted February 28, 2024 with the single "Wish" (after a stage debut a week earlier at SMTOWN Live 2024 in Tokyo) following the survival show "NCT Universe: LASTART," and jointly run by SM Entertainment and Japan's Avex Trax — built from day one to work hard on both sides of the Korea-Japan market, per Wikipedia . The current lineup is Sion, Riku, Yushi, Jaehee, Ry...
Read more

Xdinary Heroes Comeback in October, With a Hired Drummer

Image
The Xdinary Heroes comeback is on for October. JYP Entertainment confirmed it Monday (September 7, KST), telling Soompi the band "is preparing for a comeback next month" with a concert to follow in November. That is 25 days after they lost their drummer and leader, and one day after they played their first show without him. Not quite five months since DEAD AND , five members instead of six, and a drum stool that currently belongs to a guy who was recording metalcore albums in 2002, nineteen years before this band debuted. Not the comeback anyone had penciled in back in April. Three weeks, one festival, one borrowed drummer Saturday, September 6, Paradise City in Incheon. Xdinary Heroes walked onto the Sound Planet Festival stage as a five-piece for the first time, with Choi Hyun-jin on drums as a session player. Ilgan Sports put it at "barely three weeks" (my translation) after the lineup shrank, and the band got through the set. If that name means nothing to...
Read more