Police referred HYBE chairman Bang Si-hyuk and four others to prosecutors over 263.1bn won in alleged gains from its 2020 listing.

The Fashion Prize of Tokyo will fund two Paris runway shows for TANAKA, the denim label built by Uniqlo's former global design leads.

The Tokyo Fashion Award named eight winners on Saturday, two of them sewing factories, weeks after a sister award found no finalist good enough.

Asia-Pacific overtook every region for streaming series orders in the first half of 2026, with unusually high commission counts in Taiwan and the Philippines.

Lee Chang-dong's Possible Love premiered at Venice on Sunday as South Korea's Oscar entry, financed and campaigned by the same company: Netflix.

Bamboo Mat opens an 82-cover Nikkei flagship at Wood Wharf this month, four years after leaving Leyton for Stratford. Opening date is still unknown.

Moment Joon released a 15-track album under a new name on Monday. Its statement is written in four languages and refers to its author in the third person.

China's first dedicated micro-drama regulation took effect on Tuesday, requiring every series with episodes under twenty minutes to carry a licence, an approval document or a platform-issued number before it can be shown.

The Busan International Film Festival unveiled its full 2026 programme on Tuesday, the first edition at which the winner of its competition can enter the Academy Awards without going through a national submission.

Nakimushi, a Japanese restaurant spread across three floors of a listed Victorian townhouse in Notting Hill, opens on Monday, four months after the last of the two residencies it is built from closed.

Dermatology Times said in an assessment published on Monday that the regenerative claims made for topical salmon-DNA serums remain unsubstantiated without disclosed molecular weight, encapsulation and in vivo delivery data.

The Japan Fashion Week Organization declined to name a winner of its main award for emerging designers this year, leaving an opening-day slot at Tokyo's fashion week empty when the season began on Monday.

Seoul Fashion Week opened on Tuesday with its runway split between two venues for the first time, and with the clothes on one of them made buyable by phone before the show has finished.

LG Electronics has launched a five-member idol group to advertise a washer-dryer, the company said on Monday, with each member standing for a feature of the machine.

Streams of BIGBANG's songs on Melon rose 333% in August from the previous month, the platform's data unit said on Tuesday, two weeks after the group played its first concerts in nine years.

The Idol Labour Union Establishment Preparatory Committee had two members when he stopped: Bang, and Seo Min-seon, the Democratic Party policy researcher who proposed it. The pair filed a union establishment report with the Labour Ministry's Seongnam office in September. Nothing came of it.

BIGBANG opened its 20th-anniversary world tour at Goyang Stadium from 21 to 23 August, drawing more than 100,000 people across three nights, its first tour as a group in nine years. The Goyang stand was presented by Coupang Play, the streaming arm of the Korean e-commerce company, which also handled domestic ticket sales.

You probably have been hearing a lot about the upcoming launch of G-Dragon's PEACEMINUSONE collaboration with Nike for the Air Force 1 "Para-Noise" sneakers. Every media outlet and sneaker blog seems to have gone crazy about it and we’re happy to see G-Dragon gaining so much attention globally. But there are still a lot of things that need to be talked about. What are the differences between the 3 versions of the shoes? How will it look like after the black top wears off? Where can I buy it? Who got the Friends & Family edition?