Sep 24, 2025 PM EDT - Hannah
Korean R&B star Zion.T launched MATE, a new sound design label under his company Standard Friends, featuring three engineers who recently worked on the 2025 Korean Music Award-winning album "MINISERIES 2." The label aims to provide comprehensive music production services while combining AI technology with traditional expertise to advance Korea's music industry.
Sep 24, 2025 AM EDT - Isaac
Stray Kids will close out their record-setting era with a two-night stadium encore in Incheon on Oct. 18-19 at Incheon Asiad Main Stadium-the group's first-ever domestic stadium shows. JYP's official notice and the group's X post confirm dates and venue, branding the finale "dominATE : celebrATE." Ticketing guidance has rolled out in phases, with domestic platforms handling sales and heavy demand reported since the announcement. The encore caps a year in which 'KARMA'
Sep 24, 2025 AM EDT - Jason
Major Hurricane Gabrielle is racing across the North Atlantic with a hurricane warning for the Azores. The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) says large swells will pound the U.S. East Coast from North Carolina northward over the next couple of days, producing life-threatening surf and rip currents. As of this morning's advisory, Gabrielle carried maximum sustained winds near 115 mph and was
Sep 24, 2025 AM EDT - Isaac
Gucci opened Milan Fashion Week with a movie night instead of a runway, premiering The Tiger, a short film co-created by Spike Jonze and Halina Reijn to introduce creative director Demna's first chapter at the house. The screening took place at Palazzo Mezzanotte, drawing an A-list crowd as Gucci pivots to a more cinematic launch strategy ahead of a full runway debut slated for February.
Sep 24, 2025 AM EDT - Jason
The new $100,000 H-1B fee for new petitions and a revived wage-priority selection plan are reshaping the U.S. skilled-worker pipeline. Here's the practical impact for Korean companies, students, and visa holders. The U.S. has moved fast to remake how employers bring in high-skilled workers. Over the weekend, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) clarified that a one-time $100,000 fee applies to new H-1B petitions filed on or after Sept. 21, 2025, while
Sep 23, 2025 PM EDT - Hannah
Disney+ will premiere "The Murky Stream," its first Korean historical drama starring Rowoon, Shin Ye-eun, and Park Seo-ham, on September 26, 2025. The nine-episode series focuses on corruption and survival in Joseon Dynasty Korea, marking a significant expansion of Disney+'s Korean content strategy.
Sep 23, 2025 PM EDT - Hannah
K-pop group P1Harmony will make their Good Morning America debut on September 24, 2025, performing their new English title track "EX" for the first time, just two days before releasing their first English full album and launching their North American arena tour.
Sep 23, 2025 PM EDT - Hannah
NIKKE's Resident Evil collaboration "Reborn Evil" launches September 24, 2025, featuring playable characters Jill Valentine and Ada Wong as premium SSR units, plus free SR character Claire Redfield through a story event and login campaign.
Sep 23, 2025 PM EDT - Jason
The White House is preparing an executive order that would green-light a deal keeping TikTok online in the United States while placing Oracle at the center of U.S. oversight for the app's recommendation algorithm and data security, according to multiple outlets. Under the framework, Oracle would host U.S. user data and supervise a U.S.-run, licensed copy of TikTok's ranking system; the arrangement still awaits final government approvals
Sep 23, 2025 PM EDT - Isaac
Blackpink's Rosé has crossed another global milestone: the music video for "APT."-her 2024 collaboration with Bruno Mars-has topped 2 billion YouTube views and did it faster than any K-pop video on record, according to multiple outlets tracking the count. The clip premiered on Oct. 18, 2024 and hit 2B roughly 335 days later, after reaching the first billion on Jan. 31, 2025-an unusually steep second-half surge that kept momentum alive well past the typical
Sep 23, 2025 PM EDT - Jason
Hyundai Motor Group said it will invest $2.7 billion to expand production at its Ellabell, Georgia manufacturing campus, reaffirming its U.S. build-out just weeks after an immigration raid disrupted the site's battery project. The company aims to lift annual capacity by 200,000 vehicles to 500,000 by 2028, part of a broader localization push to assemble over 80% of U.S.-sold vehicles domestically by
Sep 23, 2025 AM EDT - Jason
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung said in New York that ongoing negotiations with Washington over tariff relief are affecting foreign-exchange sentiment in Korea, while adding that both sides can still reach a "commercially rational" outcome. Lee delivered the remarks during meetings with U.S. lawmakers on the sidelines of the UN week, noting that a large U.S.-bound investment packag
Sep 22, 2025 PM EDT - Isaac
If you're searching "Who won the Ballon d'Or 2025?" the truth (for now) is: the winners are announced tonight in Paris. The gala at Théâtre du Châtelet starts 3:00 p.m. ET (21:00 CEST), with red-carpet coverage earlier in the afternoon. France Football's show crowns the men's and women's Ballon d'Or and also hands out the Kopa (best U-21) and Yashin (goalkeeper) trophies.
Sep 22, 2025 PM EDT - Jason
The White House is moving ahead with a framework that would keep TikTok live in the U.S. by putting Oracle at the center of a "U.S. algorithm" plan. Under the proposal, Oracle would host American user data and oversee a licensed copy of TikTok's recommendation engine that is inspected and retrained in the U.S., with the administration preparing an executive order that pauses enforcement for 120 days while
Sep 22, 2025 PM EDT - Jason
After a flurry of weekend headlines, the U.S. government has now clarified how the new $100,000 H-1B fee will work. According to USCIS, the payment must accompany any new H-1B petition filed on or after 12:01 a.m. ET, Sept. 21, 2025. It does not apply to existing H-1B holders or renewals. Early media summaries framed the impact as starting with the 2026 cap; in practice, the USCIS text captures any new filing from Sept. 21 onward-including cap-exempt petitions filed this fall. Employers should budget and
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