Published on: 2025/08/11 15:37
And, we are going to start off with a huge concert that was held on the weekend, from SM Entertainment!
SM Entertainment has successfully held its "SMTOWN LIVE 2025" concerts at the Tokyo Dome, celebrating the company's 30th anniversary with a complete sell-out.
Held on Saturday and Sunday, the concerts in Japan were part of SM's 30th anniversary global tour, which kicked off in Seoul this January before making stops in Mexico City, Los Angeles, and London.
Across the two days, the concerts drew roughly 95,000 fans.
The lineup featured the likes of Super Junior, Girls' Generation's Hyoyeon , SHINee's Key and Minho, some members of EXO, some members of Red Velvet, along with NCT 127, NCT DREAM, aespa, RIIZE, Hearts2Hearts, the list goes on and on.
Together, they delivered more than four hours of performances.
SMTOWN has grown so big over the years.
Now moving on to a girl group that is taking the world by storm, KATSEYE.
HYBE's Korean-American joint girl group KATSEYE have surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify.
Spotify announced on Friday local time, that the group's 13 songs released since their debut have collectively racked up over 1 billion streams.
The milestone comes just one year and one month after their debut on June 28 last year.
According to HYBE, the surge was driven by the success of their second mini album "Beautiful Chaos".
From that album, "Gabriela" became their fastest track to hit 100 million streams, reaching the mark in just 38 days.
"Gnarly" and "Touch" followed, taking 52 and 82 days respectively to achieve the same milestone.
KATSEYE will next appear at "Summer Sonic 2025" and "Summer Sonic Extra" in Japan from August 16 to 18.
Finally, movie news, we talked about it on Friday with Professor Soh, it's about "My Daughter is a Zombie" or "Zombie Ddal" and it looks like our predictions came true?
"My Daughter Is a Zombie" , starring Jo Jung-suk , has set a new record as the fastest film of the year to draw over 3 million moviegoers domestically.
According to the Korean Film Council on Sunday, the film attracted approximately 3,026,000 viewers as of that day, surpassing the 3 million mark just 11 days after its July 30 release.
This year, only five films have reached the 3 million milestone "My Daughter is a Zombie" , "Mission: Impossible -The Final Reckoning", "Yadang: The Snitch", "Mickey 17" and "F1: The Movie".
"My Daughter is a Zombie" has also been invited to the "SITGES -International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia", a well-known festival that specialises in fantasy, horror and cult films.
The festival will run from October 9 to 19.
Let's hope it receives positive response there as well.
Thanks for that Walter. Now we move over to our AI anchor Ari for more culture related news. Ari!
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