[K-Enter] Jennie's "like JENNIE" MV surpasses 100 million views

Starting off with some news on BlackPink's Jennie.

Recently we talked about her latest music video "Seoul City", today it's her song "like JENNIE" making hits again it has been consistently performing well on the video streaming platform YouTube, correct?

Jennie's music video "like JENNIE", from her first full solo album "Ruby" released on March 7, officially surpassed 100 million views on YouTube last Friday, making it the first K-pop music video of 2025 to hit that milestone.

This marks Jennie's second music video to cross the 100 million mark, following "Mantra" off the album "Ruby". She also holds the record as the first female K-pop artist to reach 1 billion views on a single music video, with "SOLO" achieving that feat in February last year.

On top of that, "like JENNIE" made Jennie the first female soloist this year to top both the Melon TOP 100 and daily charts in South Korea.

Moving onto some news of a K-pop concert that we reported on before but now there's a possible cancellation in talk?

K-pop boy group EPEX were scheduled to hold a concert in Fuzhou . But EPEX's agency, C9 Entertainment, announced on its official social media that "the concert originally scheduled to take place in Fuzhou on May 31 has been unavoidably postponed due to local circumstances."

The eight-member boy group, composed entirely of Korean members, had planned to hold their solo concert "Youth Scarcity in Fuzhou" on May 31.

The concert had drawn attention as it would have marked the first K-pop group concert in China in about nine years since the Chinese government unofficially imposed a "Hallyu Ban".

According to sources C9 Entertainment is in talks with selecting a new date and venue for the concert and have said they will share the details as soon as possible.

China has been enforcing the Hallyu Ban, an unofficial retaliatory measure limiting Korean music, dramas, and films, since around 2016 in response to South Korea's deployment of the U.S. THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area 데펜스) missile defense system.

Last but not least let's talk about SHINee.

Starting May 18 to 22 at 8 p.m. Korea time, SHINee will kick off "SHINee WEEK" a special event marking the 17th anniversary of their 데뷔 by streaming replays of their first through fifth solo concerts on their official YouTube channel.

The band will also hold three concerts this month, titled "SHINee World Ⅶ (Every Stage Shines Around You), held from May 23 to 25 at the KSPO DOME in Seoul's Olympic Park, which will be followed by the release of a new single on May 25.

The single will consist of two tracks, including the title song, and will be released on major music platforms at midnight on May 25. It will showcase SHINee's latest music and performances, and is timed for the anniversary of their debut.

Definitely a week that SHINee fans will look forward to.

Thanks for the news Walter, stick around as we move onto our AI anchor Ari who has some interesting culture-related news at hand. Ari!