Korean Entertainment News

Girls' Generation will release repackaged versions of its Japanese albums in Korea on Feb. 9, hoping to replicate their record-breaking success in the group's home country.

The album "Girls' Generation" was released in Japan last June and was itself repackaged as "Girls Generation – The Boys" to include two new songs and rereleased in Japan in December. These two albums will Now be available in Korean stores starting this month, and some will be sold with a bonus DVD showing clips of the ever-popular K-pop group...More

Actress Kim Hye-ja has been fined a whopping 500 million won ($447,775) for falsifying a report to the Mapo District Tax Office last year. On Wednesday, the Mapo District Tax Office said that it would fine the actress for declaring that her house in Seogyo-dong was her sole place of residence in 2006, when she was actually living with her son.

The residence was sold last March for 3.075 million won and Kim paid around 100 million won in transfer tax. She would have been heavily taxed if she had declared she was actually living at a separate residence...More

Singer Lee Hyo-lee has donated 100 million won ($89,361) to the Beautiful Foundation in central Seoul, her agency announced on Feb. 8. The fund will be named "The Hyori fund" in the star's honor.

In Chinese characters "Hyori" can mean "Wanting to be dutiful towards the elders". A representative from Lee's agency said "She loved the meaning behind the fund's name and wanted to really do something for the elderly in our community". The money from the fund will go towards aid projects targeted towards the elderly...More

TVXQ had added two more performance dates to its ongoing Japan tour, its agency announced on Feb. 9, roughly a month after four performances were added to the originally scheduled shows. The K-pop duo will perform a total of 26 times across Japan.

"Due to high demand, we have added additional performances at the Tokyo Dome and Osaka's Kyocera Dome", SM Entertainment said in a press release...More

American singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata will return to Korea on Feb. 26 to follow up her debut last year. "Last year was my first time performing for Korean fans and I was just blown away by the support for me and my band from the Korean fans", said Yamagata through an email interview with Yonhap News. She said that the warmth she felt at her concert in Korea propelled her to put in the hard work to produce her new album.

The singer also said that the concert will be a mix of new songs as well as older hits like "Be Be Your Love" and "Duet", which were popular in Korea...More

Jang Dong-gun and Lee Byeong-Heon back home...kwon Sang-woo goes out to USA and China.

Jang Dong-gun, Lee Byeong-Heon and kwon Sang-woo are going different ways...More

Actress Seo Yeong-hee has been cast in the drama "Stroke of Luck".

Seo Yeong-hee will be taking on the role of Lee  Eun-hee, wife to Ji Woon-soo (Im Chang-jeong) in the TV Chosun drama "Stroke of Luck"...More

Actress Kim Min-hee's topless poster has been denied.

The Korea Media Rating Board (KMRB) denied the poster for the movie "Gabi" for the reason that Kim Min-hee's topless pose is too raunchy. Therefore, this poster can't be used in theaters or promotional uses....More