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Anna Cathcart), who believes she knows everything there is to know about love. But when she moves halfway across the world to reunite with her long-distance boyfriend, she'll soon realize that relationships are a lot more complicated when it’s your own heart on the line.Joining Cathcart in the upcoming spinoff is Choi Min-yeong, who plays Dae (Kitty's love interest introduced in 2021's ); Anthony Keyvan as Q; Gia Kim as Yuri; Sang Heon Lee as Min Ho; Peter Turnwald as Alex; and Regan Aliyah, who will portray Juliana.

Netflix has added nine actors to the cast for XO, Kitty its upcoming To All The Boys spinoff series. Joining as series regulars are Choi Min-yeong (Dream Palace), Anthony Keyvan (Genera+ion), Gia Kim, Sang Heon Lee, Peter Thurnwald (Players) and Regan Aliyah (Club Mickey Mouse). They will appear opposite Anna Cathcart who takes on the titular role. The series comes from co-showrunners and executive producer Jenny Han and Sascha Rothchild.

Oscars had a surprise dose of BTS!The biggest group in the world made a brief but memorable appearance during Sunday's Academy Awards in a pre-taped segment, where they discussed their favorite movie musicals. One of their top picks?, the Pixar/Disney animated feature released in 2017, and took home two Oscars.«It's a real masterpiece!» group leader, RM, said in the video through translations. «I watched it three times.

heartthrob boy band BTS were gifted a creative loophole to show their love for the pop sensations, despite harsh COVID restrictions at Thursday’s Seoul, South Korea, performance.“Cheering loudly, yelling, chanting and standing up during ‘BTS Permission To Dance On Stage — Seoul’ is strictly prohibited according to government guidelines,” the band’s management released in a statement ahead of showtime, according to the Mirror.The outlet also noted the homecoming show — their first for the South Korean capital in over two years — had only 15,000 seated fans of an originally anticipated 70,000 allowed in the Seoul Olympic Stadium.However, those lucky enough to nab a spot inside were still able to share their love for the “Boy With Luv” singers — with good old-fashioned clapping.

TXT and ENHYPEN are reportedly set to hold in-person concerts this year, according to HYBE officials.At the HYBE IR Conference call for the fourth quarter of 2021 held earlier yesterday (February 22), the management company’s officials announced that several artists under HYBE’s roster are currently making plans for in-person events. These events will “proactively adopt hybrid formats, combining online and in-person performance”.“Especially Tomorrow X Together (TXT) and ENHYPEN will hold their first-ever in-person concert since their debut to connect with more fans,” a HYBE official added, as translated by Koreaboo.

Sasha Urban editorK-pop group BTS is continuing its world tour in April, with four newly announced dates at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. The global superstars will perform on April 8, 9, 15 and 16, with the last day of the tour being streamed live online. Additionally, the group’s event “Live Play in Las Vegas” will be held on all four days at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.The news comes after the group’s announcement last week of concert dates in Seoul, South Korea on March 10, 12 and 13 at the Seoul Olympic Stadium.

Angelique Jackson The story of the 2014 Jackson Robinson West little league baseball team’s championship run and subsequent downfall will be chronicled in the feature-length documentary “One Golden Summer.”The all-Black team from Chicago’s South Side defied expectations to win the U.S. Little League Championship, going on to face the baseball team from Seoul, South Korea, for the world title.

Honey Lee is pregnant!

SEOUL, South Korea -- Anupam Tripathi said his grandfather sometimes read his palm and told him he’d be rich one day. His joking response?“Where is my money!”The 33-year-old Tripathi was rightfully doubtful.

SEOUL, South Korea -- Despite being one of the most well-known faces in Asia, acting never gets easier for South Korean superstar Gianna Jun.“I feel like I climbed the mountain 1,000 times,” she said about filming her latest series, “Jirisan.”Jun plays Seo Yi-Gang, a mountain ranger at Jirisan, a mountain located about four hours south of central Seoul.

Ed Sheeran has been tapped to perform at this year's ceremony, to be held Saturday, Dec. 11 in Seoul, South Korea, it was announced during a global press conference.

SEOUL, South Korea -- A South Korean military court sentenced disgraced K-pop star Seungri to three years in prison on Thursday for crimes including providing prostitutes to foreign businessmen.The Defense Ministry said the former member of the boy band Big Bang was also fined 1.15 billion won ($989,000).

SEOUL, South Korea -- The freshest faces among South Korean influencers are no longer the usual, 20-something celebrities.

SEOUL, South Korea -- Bringing her camera to a home for unwed mothers on South Korea’s Jeju island, Sun Hee Engelstoft anticipated an empowering story about young women keeping their babies.Instead, she ended up with a raw and unsettling documentary about how a deeply conservative sexual culture, loose birth registration laws and a largely privatized adoption system continue to pressure and shame single mothers into relinquishing their children for adoption.The shock and grief of mother-child

Bts is smooth as butter.

BTS is taking over the 2021 Grammys stage – but not from Los Angeles!

BTS kicked off Grammys weekend last night (March 12) with a performance at MusiCares’ ‘Music On A Mission’ virtual benefit concert.Taking to the stage at the Peace Hall at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea, the K-pop giants performed their Grammy-nominated (Best Pop Duo/Group Performance) song ‘Dynamite’, with band member Jungkook on drums.The ‘Music On A Mission’ benefit was put on to help raise proceeds for members of the music industry severely impacted by the coronavirus

MTV Unplugged stage later this month.On February 9 (Tuesday), the American cable channel made the announcement via their social media pages, teasing the Korean boy group’s first appearance on the programme on February 23 at 9pm ET.

BTS just keep getting bigger.

BTS’ RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook will bring a “little funk and soul” to MTV’s Unplugged.

South Korean actress and model Song Yoo-jung died on Saturday, January 23. She was 26.

Lana Condor and Noah Centineo return in the trailer for To All the Boys: Always and Forever, the third film in the Netflix rom-com franchise. The preview sees Condor's Lara Jean Covey and Centineo's Peter Kavinsky navigating the future of their relationship after graduation.

SEOUL, South Korea -- Japanese pop sensation ARASHI has a big surprise for fans as they near their planned hiatus at year's end: a collaboration with Bruno Mars on their first all-English single.The band told The Associated Press the multi-Grammy Award-winning musician delved into their back catalogue to understand their unique sound while working on the single that was released last week.“He took into consideration that we are going on hiatus,” said Jun Matsumoto, adding he feels their song,

SEOUL, South Korea -- The remake of “Mulan” struck all the right chords to be a hit in the key Chinese market.

SEOUL, South Korea -- Disney is under fire for filming part of its live-action reboot “Mulan” in Xinjiang, the region in China where the government has been accused of human rights abuses against Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities.The final credits in the film, which was released on Disney Plus last week and is being rolled out in several countries this month, thank propaganda departments in Xinjiang and the public security bureau of Turpan, a Uighur-majority city in the

We are pulling out our favourite purple tee and hunting for the best photos of Jungkook as we prepare to celebrate the BTS singer's birthday. The Bangtan Boy celebrates his birthday on September 1.

Korean boy band BTS set a new Guinness World Record for reaching the most viewers on a music concert live stream. The band managed to have 756,000 fans from over 100 countries tune in to their online performance at Bang Bang Con: The Live on June 14th, which included a 12 song setlist and some interluding chat between the seven band members, all being broadcast live from Seoul, South Korea.

In early May, health officials in Seoul, South Korea, traced a spike in coronavirus infections to reopened nightclubs in one part of the city. Now, in an effort to help rein in future outbreaks, authorities have begun requiring venues across the country to scan contact-tracing applications on clubbers' mobile phones before granting them entrance. The apps, which employ scannable QR codes

SEOUL, South Korea -- As American protesters took to the streets to mourn the death of George Floyd, they found an unexpected ally: K-pop fans. Floyd died May 25 after a police officer pressed his knee into his neck for several minutes even after he stopped moving.