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  (LEAD) Three S. Koreans win Tchaikovsky Competition in violin, cello, voice

  (ATTN: UPDATES with more details, background in paras 3-5; ADDS photos)SEOUL, June 30 (Yonhap) -- Three South Koreans have won first prizes in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in the categories of violin, cello and voice, its website showed
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  BTS' Jungkook to make official solo debut next month

  SEOUL, June 30 (Yonhap) -- Jungkook of K-pop supergroup BTS announced Friday he will drop his first official solo song next month.The track, titled "Seven," will arrive on July 14 at 1 p.m., the vocalist said on Weverse, Hybe's K-pop
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  Three S. Koreans win Tchaikovsky Competition in violin, cello, voice

  SEOUL, June 30 (Yonhap) -- Three South Koreans have won first prizes in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in the categories of violin, cello and voice, its website showed Friday.Kim Gye-hee and Lee Young-eun clinched the gold medals in violin
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  Disney+ to release documentary featuring TXT's first world tour

  SEOUL, June 29 (Yonhap) -- Disney+ will release a documentary featuring K-pop boy band TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s very first world tour and its Lollapalooza stage, the streamer said Thursday.Titled “TOMORR
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  EXO to pre-release "Here Me Out" from seventh full-length album

  SEOUL, June 29 (Yonhap) -- K-pop group EXO will release its second pre-release song "Here Me Out" from its seventh full-length album at 6 p.m. on Friday. According to SM Entertai
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  Seventeen's Jun to drop Chinese digital single 'PSYCHO'

  SEOUL, June 29 (Yonhap) -- Jun of K-pop boy band Seventeen will drop a Chinese-language digital single on July 4, his agency said Thursday.Jun will return as a soloist in nine months after rolling out
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  Producer of Fifty Fifty's 'Cupid' refutes agency's claims over contract, copyright

  SEOUL, June 29 (Yonhap) -- The producer of K-pop girl group Fifty Fifty's hit song "Cupid" on Thursday refuted its agency's claims in connection with their exclusive contracts and the song's copyright in an intensifying legal
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  Ive's 'I AM' hits 100 mln Spotify streams

  SEOUL, June 29 (Yonhap) -- K-pop rookie girl group Ive’s “I AM” hit 100 million streams on Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming site, on Tuesday, its agency said Wednesday.“I AM” became the se
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  Girl group Fifty Fifty in dispute with agency over exclusive contracts

  SEOUL, June 28 (Yonhap) -- K-pop girl group Fifty Fifty has become entangled in a legal dispute with its agency over the members' exclusive contracts just seven months after its debut.The four members of the quartet said through their lawyer Wedn
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  Genie Music unveils nation's 1st AI-based music arrangement service

  By Shim Sun-ahSEOUL, June 28 (Yonhap) -- Genie Music, a leading Seoul-based music streaming service, unveiled the country's first artificial intelligence (AI)-based music arrangement service Wednesday along with a domestic tech startup.The subsid
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  Girl group Fifty Fifty's agency alleges Warner Music Korea attempted to poach members

  SEOUL, June 26 (Yonhap) -- Warner Music Korea has attempted to poach members of rising K-pop girl group Fifty Fifty through a third party, the group's agency alleged Monday."Both a subcontracted outsourcing company and Warner Music Korea ap
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  TWICE member Jihyo's debut solo album named 'Zone'

  By Shim Sun-ahSEOUL, June 26 (Yonhap) -- Jihyo of popular K-pop girl group TWICE will make a debut as a solo artist in August with her debut solo album, "Zone," her agency said Monday.The singer will drop the EP, led by the lead track &q
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  (LEAD) Ateez reaches new peak on Billboard 200 with 'The World Ep. 2: Outlaw'

  By Shim Sun-ah(ATTN: UPDATES with more details of Billboard article in paras 4, 6, background info in last 3 paras; MAKES minor edit in lead to clarify meaning; ADDS byline)SEOUL, June 26 (Yonhap) -- K-pop boy group Ateez's latest EP, "The
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  Ateez reaches new peak on Billboard 200 with 'The World Ep. 2: Outlaw'

  SEOUL, June 26 (Yonhap) -- K-pop boy group Ateez's latest EP, "The World Ep. 2: Outlaw," has landed at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, marking its highest-charting entry yet.The six-track album had earned 105,500 equivalent album units in
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  Fifty Fifty becomes longest-charting K-pop girl group on British Official Singles Chart

  SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- Fifty Fifty's hit song "Cupid" has set a new record for the longest entry on the British Official Singles Chart Top 100 by a K-pop girl group.According to the latest data released Friday (British time), the
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  TXT to drop collab single with Jonas Brothers in July

  SEOUL, June 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korean boy band TOMORROW X TOGETHER is set to drop a joint single with the American pop-rock band Jonas Brothers on July 7, its agency said Thursday.After making its b
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  Fifty Fifty becomes longest-charting K-pop girl group on Billboard Hot 100

  By Shim Sun-ahSEOUL, June 22 (Yonhap) -- Fifty Fifty has become the longest-charting K-pop girl group on the Billboard Hot 100 in history as it stayed on the U.S. music chart for the 13th consecutive week.According to the latest chart unveiled Tuesda
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  FT Island to hold encore concert in Taipei in August

  SEOUL, June 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korean boy band FT Island will wrap up its Asia tour in Taipei, Taiwan, on August 13, its agency said Thursday. After kicking off its tour, titled “RE: FTISLAND,” in S
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  TXT’s new track to become theme song of Japanese drama series

  SEOUL, June 22 (Yonhap) -- "Hydrangea Love," a track off the boy band TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s second Japanese-language LP, will serve as the theme song of an upcoming Japanese Nippon TV tele
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  New Jeans rolls out 'Zero' featuring J.I.D

  SEOUL June 21 (Yonhap) -- The group New Jeans released a collaborative track "Zero" with American rapper J.I.D said its agency on the Wednesday.Zero is a CM song created by New Jeans in co