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  (LEAD) BTS to return for first South Korean concerts in over two years

  (ATTN: UPDATES with remarks from BTS members in last four paras)SEOUL, March 10 (Yonhap) -- K-pop supergroup BTS on Thursday will hit the stage in Seoul for the first concerts before its homegrown fans since 2019.The three "Permission To Dance
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  BTS to hold Seoul concert from today…Jamsil to illuminate in purple in two and half years

  SEOUL, Mar. 10 (Yonhap) – K-pop superband BTS will meet "ARMY"(BTS’ fan club name) in Korea for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak.BTS will hold a concert "BTS PERMI
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  BTS Suga donates 100 mln won for wildfire victims

  SEOUL, March 10 (Yonhap) -- BTS’s Suga, (birth name: Min Yoon-gi, 29), donated 100 million won in celebration of his birthday on Wednesday to help the victims suffering from forest fires on the east c
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  'Wild Idol' TAN to make debut today

  SEOUL, Mar. 10 (Yonhap) – K-pop boy group “TAN,” which was formed through MBC’s survival audition program “Wild Idol,” will make a debut on Mar. 10 afternoon with the debut album “1TAN.” TAN, a 7-memb
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  [동해안 산불] BTS 슈가 1억원·곽윤기 3천만원 희망브리지 통해 기부

  (서울=연합뉴스) 임성호 기자 = 그룹 방탄소년단(BTS) 멤버 슈가(본명 민윤기·29)와 2022 베이징 동계올림픽 쇼트트랙 은메달리스트 곽윤기(33·고양시청)가 강원·경북 동해안 지역 산불 피해 복구를 위해 성금을 기부했다.희망브리지 전국재해구호협회는 9일 생일을 맞은 슈가가 산불 피해로 어려움을 겪는 주민을 위해 써 달라며 1억원을 기부했다고 밝혔다.
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  T1419 to debut in Japan... drops ‘OUR TEEN: BLUE SIDE’ today

  SEOUL, March 9 (Yonhap) -- Group T1419 will officially debut in Japan. T1419 will release a debut album “OUR TEEN: BLUE SIDE” today in Japan according to agency MLD Entertainment, Wednesday. The album
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  DAVII to make comeback in 3 months… to release mini-album ‘Today’

  SEOUL, March 9 (Yonhap) -- Sing-songwriter DAVII (Choi Kyu-wan) will make a comeback with a new mini-album “Today” on March 15, according to agency Always, Tuesday.Under the theme of ‘Today that’s Nev
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  MoonBin·SanHa test positive for COVID-19… postpones Astro’s fan meeting

  SEOUL, March 9 (Yonhap) -- Moonbin & Sanha, a unit of the K-pop boy group Astro, delayed its comeback as the two members have been confirmed to have COVID-19. Fantagio, the agency, said on Wednesd
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  BTS ‘My Universe’ ranks No. 28 on Billboard Digital Song Sales Chart

  SEOUL, Mar. 9 (Yonhap) -- K-pop superband BTS and the band Coldplay’s joint song “My Universe” is continuing to put up its name on the US Billboard’s Digital Song Sales chart. 
“My Universe” ranked No
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  2 more Seventeen members, BTOB's Im Hyun-sik test positive for COVID-19

  SEOUL, March 8 (Yonhap) -- Two more members of K-pop boy group Seventeen and one member of BTOB tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, their agencies said as the nationwide spread of the omicron variant continues to affect the pop music scene.&quo
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  YG TREASURE tops Japan’s Oricon weekly album chart

  SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Yonhap) – K-pop boy group TREASURE from YG Entertainment topped Japan’s Oricon weekly chart.TREASURE’s “THE SECOND STEP : CHAPTER ONE” ranked No. 1 on Oricon weekly album chart(Feb. 28
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  BTS' Seoul live concerts due this week

  BTS concerts-preview BTS' Seoul live concerts due this weekSEOUL, March 8 (Yonhap) -- The upcoming live concerts by BTS in Seoul will be prepared in a way that can help the band members and their
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  IVE’s debut song ‘ELEVEN’ MV surpasses 100 million views

  SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Yonhap) -- The music video of rookie girl group IVE’s debut song “ELEVEN” surpassed 100 million views on YouTube, according to Starship Entertainment, Tuesday. “ELEVEN,” which was relea
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  JYP donates 300 million won for east coast wildfire victims

  SEOUL, March 8 (Yonhap) -- K-Pop Powerhouse JYP Entertainment donated 300 million won to World Vision on Tuesday to help children and victims affected by S. Korea's east coast wildfires in Gangwon
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  BTOB’s Im Hyun-sik tests positive for COVID-19

  SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Yonhap) – K-pop boy group BTOB’s Im Hyun-sik tested positive for the coronavirus on Mar. 8. The singer has previously completed his third vaccine shots, and he is currently taking neces
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  ZE:A’s Moon Joon-young caught driving under influence

  SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Yonhap) -- Moon Joon-young (33), the leader of the idol group ZE:A, was caught by the police while driving under the influence. 
According to Yonhap News coverage on Tuesday, the Seoul
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  #​Korean Cultural Center New York, #K-pop Dance Night

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  Korean Cultural Center NY and Lincoln Center to hold K-pop Dance Night

  SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Yonhap) -- ​Korean Cultural Center New York will co-present with Lincoln Center a ‘K-pop Dance Night’ program on March 18, 7:30 p.m, at Lincoln Center in New York. Korean DJ and produc
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  HyunA tests positive for COVID-19

  SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Yonhap) – S. Korean singer HyunA has tested positive for the coronavirus on Mar. 7 from the PCR test conducted due to her mild fever, according to the agency P NATION on Tuesday. P NATI
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  TWICE's Ji-hyo releases first solo soundtrack 'Stardust love song'

  SEOUL, Mar. 7 (Yonhap) - K-pop girl group TWICE's Ji-hyo has released the first solo soundtrack since her debut. Ji-hyo has dropped the soundtrack "Stardust love song" for tvN's we
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  IU participates in Jay Park’s new single ‘GANADARA’

  SEOUL, Mar. 7 (Yonhap) -- Singer Jay Park and IU will show their first collaboration. Park’s new entertainment agency MORE VISION released the album cover motion video for the singer’s new digital sin