Genie, the brand-new music service playable on the smartphone, has been launched on April 2, with the unlimited streaming Genie Pack service available at 4,000 won a month. Genie Pack has signed up as many as 300,000 subscribers within 50 days after launch.

Seoul, KOREA ¶ May 22, 2012 -- KT announced on May 21 that the telecom service provider would begin the “Genie K-Pop” series that delivers the contents of Korean Wave artists on the user’s smartphone. The series will start with the SM Town Live World Tour III in Los Angeles concert on May 21, followed by the concert of Super Junior’s Super Show 4 Seoul on May 26 and 27, and the augmented reality show by EXO-K on June 2.

Genie, the brand-new music service playable on the smartphone, has been launched on April 2, with the unlimited streaming Genie Pack service available at 4,000 won a month. Genie Pack has signed up as many as 300,000 subscribers within 50 days after launch.

Ahn Tae-Hyo, the head of KT’s Smart Eco Division, said, “As a way to say thank you to our members that have shown keen interest to Genie, we planned this free-of-charge event providing special concert series performed by K-Pop stars. We will keep up with quality music content to make our members happy.”

Sam Kim (press@whowired.com)