[K-enter] Jisoo's "earthquake" tops World Digital Song Sales chart

So Bella, let's start off with a story on BLACKPINK's Jisoo.

Soa, did you take a listen to Jisoo's new song, "earthquake?"

Well, this song is getting tremendous love as its topping a Billboard chart. According to Billboard's official website on Wednesday, Jisoo's title song "earthquake" from her latest mini-album "AMORTAGE" topped the "World Digital Song Sales" chart this week. On top of this feat, "earthquake" also ranked 47th on the Billboard "Global 200" chart and 22nd on Billboard Global 200 excluding the U.S. That's not all. It proved its global influence by ranking 20th on "LyricFind Global" as well.

"earthquake" is catching the eyes and ears of global music fans with 36 million views on YouTube, 20 million streams on Spotify, and 800-thousand individual TikTok videos.

Meanwhile, Jisoo starred in the recently released Coupang Play series "Newtopia" and her upcoming movie "Omniscient Reader: The Prophet" is also set to be released in July. In addition, she will hold the 2025 fan meeting tour "LIGHTS, LOVE, ACTION!" in seven Asian cities, including Manila, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Moving onto our next story about a Netflix series. What do you have for us Bella?

"Squid Game" season 2 has been announced as the most-watched TV series on Netflix in the second half of 2024. According to Netflix's latest Engagement Report sharing what people watched from July to December 2024, the subscribers spent more than 94 billion hours on Netflix in the second half of last year, which is a 5% increase compared to the previous year.

Now, what's very impressive is that "Squid Game" Season 2 premiered on December 26th of last year, but it dominated the second half of 2024 as Netflix's most-viewed series with 87 million views. So it topped the chart in just 6 days.

Other Korean content also did well, including the film "Officer Black Belt," the drama "Love Next Door" and the reality TV show "Culinary Class Wars."

And for our last story today, we'll talk about an upcoming film that stars one of the actors from "Squid Game."

The actor Lee Byung-hun will come back to the screen with his upcoming film "The Match." The new film, set in the 1990s, is centered on the board game go, or "baduk" in Korean, and explores the mentor-disciple relationship and rivalry between the two of Korea's real-life go legends, Cho Hun-hyun and Lee Chang-ho. Lee Byung-hun will play Cho Hun-hyun, while Yoo Ah-in will step into the shoes of Lee Chang-ho. "The Match" will premiere in movie theaters on March 26th.

Thank you Bella for today's stories.

Now time to go over to our AI anchor Ari, who has festivals and ceremonies to report on. Ari, take it away!