WINNING TRIO: For Michael Rider’s debut collection at Celine, the French brand shut down the street in front of its headquarters. While editors negotiated the security checkpoint, Kim Taehyung, aka V of K-pop band BTS, sailed up on a bicycle for his first official event since completing military service last month. Having arrived early, he…
One of the world’s top K-pop awards ceremonies will return to Hong Kong for the first time since 2018, taking place in the city’s 50,000-seat Kai Tak Stadium in November. The return of the MAMA Awards, formerly known as the Mnet Asian Music Awards, to the city is expected to be bigger than ever, with…
Behind the sunshine-y, happy and lucrative influx of Korean culture globally, there is a dark side to it that hardly gets explored. Its harsh culture of bullying its celebrities. First, they hold them to a demigod-like status, like they are the only role models a normal citizen should shape themselves after, and then the next…
South Korean authorities have launched an investigation into an employee of a Hong Kong-based airline who is accused of profiting by selling illegally obtained private flight details of celebrities, including megastar K-pop boy band BTS. The cyber investigation unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency is reportedly investigating the woman in her thirties, who allegedly…