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Your new K-pop destination ENHYPEN will embark on their very first world tour since their debut in November 2020. ENHYPEN WORLD TOUR 'MANIFESTO' will kick off on September 17 with two consecutive dates in Seoul, followed by shows produced by AEG Presents in six U.S. cities. Check out more information on tour dates and tickets now!

The band revealed today on HYBE LABELS YouTube channel the album preview for their highly anticipated 3rd Mini Album MANIFESTO : DAY 1. The video gave a sneak peak of the six songs included in the album: lead single “Future Perfect (Pass the MIC)”, “WALK THE LINE”, “ParadoXXX Invasion”, “TFW (That Feeling When)”, “SHOUT OUT”, and “Foreshadow”.

Since debuting on January 3 with their first mini album 'First Impact', Kep1er has been breaking records. Within a week, the nine-member group sold 200,000 copies of the album, making it the second-best selling debut album from a girl group in K-pop history.

In parallel with the comeback announcement, the rising authentic storytellers revealed a 2022 logo trailer and lyric video for the new album’s B-side track “WALK THE LINE” on ENHYPEN’s official YouTube channel and HYBE LABELS Youtube channel, respectively.

According to Hanteo Chart—a top music chart in Korea—data made public on June 2, over 2.06 million copies of the K-pop supergroup’s 4th studio album Face the Sun were sold in 7 days since its release. BTS are the only other artist in Korea that holds the record of selling over 2 million copies in the first week.

ENHYPEN’s HEESEUNG surprised global fans by dropping a solo cover of “Off My Face.” ENHYPEN released a video of HEESEUNG covering “Off My Face” via the band’s official social media channels on May 30. Included in Justin Bieber’s album Justice, “Off My Face” is a track that has received massive popularity worldwide since its release in March 2021. 

With the wave of “Joseon pop,” which wittily combines Korean traditional and pop music, there is an increasing interest in Korean music. National Orchestra of Korea, with a long experience of drawing in new audiences and giving an excellent introduction into Korean music, has programmed a new style of concert for young audiences.

The song, which could be described as the sexier older brother to the group's 2020 title track 'No Diggity', features a poker concept, complete with energetic dancing and an earworm of a beat drop.

N-Tong’s Kids Concert is a concert for children that recorded 96% of seat occupancy despite the pandemic at its 2021 premiere. Joyfully accompanied by 16 children’s songs, a 6-year-old child named Kyo-jin, who finds it hard to express his feelings, travels around the Land of Instruments with ‘instrument friend’ N-Tong and discovers his own ways of expressing emotions.

BroadwayWorld has an exclusive first look at highlights from the Korean production of Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit's, Phantom, which is coming to cinemas across America.

Midday Concert is a brunch concert of Korean music with class and quality. Since its launch in 2009, this concert starting at 11AM has sold out every single show as NTOK’s major steady-seller. It offers a rich, delightful, and sophisticated program of easy listening tunes anyone can enjoy and collaborations with pop singers, musical actors, and pansori singers.

Yesterday, March 28, K-Pop boy group NCT Dream made a comeback with their second full album, Glitch Mode, featuring a title track of the same name. As described by the group, the song has elements of 'glitching, buffering, and chanting.'

The upcoming premiere of KPOP, the new musical about the global K-pop phenomenon, will begin performances on Broadway with previews starting on Thursday, October 13, 2022, in advance of an opening night on Sunday, November 20, 2022. The show will play at the Circle in the Square Theatre (235 West 50th Street).

King Lear, an unmatched masterpiece that stands out from the great legacy of Shakespeare, will take on the form of changgeuk. It is a new piece by the Company with playwright Bae Sam-sik, whose collaboration in accomplished excellent artistic amalgamation. Korean vocal music will beautifully blossom on his language filled with deep affection in humanity and exceptional mastery of filling and emptying space.

is Universal Ballet’s major creation which portrays the most beautiful emotions ballet can express with highly-advanced technique and mime, while keeping the story and characters of the classic ‘Chunhyang-jeon’ intact.

The KBS Symphony Orchestra was reestablished in 2012 as a foundational corporation in the form of professional arts management that was meant to soar beyond the limits of the broadcasting symphony orchestra and expand its boundaries in classical music and was revitalized to incorporate the current outlook with an independent and autonomous management system.

The KBS Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2022 White Day Concerto. The event takes place on 11 March at Lotte Concert Hall.

The KBS Symphony Orchestra will hold its 775th Subscription Concert this month! The concert is set to take place on February 26th at the  Seoul Arts Center Concert hall.

K-Pop group PENTAGON made a comeback with their 12th mini-album, 'IN:VITE U' on January 24. The album's title holds a double meaning, combining 'INVITE' and 'VITE'- which means 'quickly'.

Daegu International Musical Festival (hereinafter referred to as DIMF) kicks off two youth global musical theatre competitions, 'DIMF Musicalstar', Korea's No. 1 musical competition & 'DIMF College Musical Festival', a competition festival for college teams in February 2022.

Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen has been appointed as the new music director of the KBS Symphony Orchestra.

Your new K-pop destination ENHYPEN have welcomed the new year with their 1st Studio Repackage Album DIMENSION : ANSWER, three months after delivering a breath of fresh air with 1st Studio Album DIMENSION : DILEMMA released in October, 2021.

The video reflects the previously revealed “NO” and “YET” concepts showing the visual talents within a wide meadow as well as a miniature world, while providing a preview of the album’s B-side tracks “Polaroid Love,” “Outro : Day 2,” and lead single “Blessed-Cursed.” The 3 songs are new additions to ENHYPEN’s first 11-track repackage album. 

Apres girl portrays the life of Park Nam-ok, Korea’s first female filmmaker. After its acclaimed premiere in 2020, the piece will be presented again at Haeoreum Grand Theater. In the 1950s when women’s social activities were not encouraged, Park Nam-ok did not give up on her dream of becoming a filmmaker and, despite many hardships and despairs, made The Widow, a major work in Korean film history.