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· Leanna Chan
K-Pop Idol Bashed Online After League of Legends Cosplay is ‘too revealing’
K-pop star Johyun of the girl band Berry Good, is facing backlash online after critics deemed her League of Legends cosplay as “too revealing.” The singer was dressed as the fox character Ahri from League of Legends for OGN’s “Game Dolympic 2019: Golden Card” eSports event,…
· Carl Samson
K-Pop Idol’s ‘Anorexic’ Photos Make Fans Worry for Her Health
Fans are left worried after seeing a photo of K-Pop star Jimin which appeared that she had gone through an extreme case of weight loss. Jimin, the leader and main rapper of South Korean girl group AOA, has been posting travel pictures from the U.K. over the last several days on…
· Carl Samson
K-Pop Group Monsta X Will Appear on ‘We Bare Bears’
Rising K-pop boy group Monsta X is making an animated appearance on Cartoon Network’s “We Bare Bears.” In a minute-long teaser for an upcoming episode, viewers had a glimpse of what it’s like if Ice Bear (Demetri Martin), Panda (Bobby Moynihan) and Grizzly (Eric Edelstein) rub…
· Ryan General
South Korea Outraged After K-Pop Star, Police Officer He Allegedly Bribed are Let Free for Now
South Koreans are expressing their frustrations over a judge’s dismissal of the arrest warrant for former Big Bang member Seungri by launching a petition on the government website. In the petition, netizens noted how the judge outraged the public for dismissing arrest warrants…
· Bryan Ke
Morning Show Host Says K-Pop Member’s ‘English is Phenomenal’: ‘Well yeah, I’m from Chicago’
NCT 127, part of the K-pop band NCT based in Seoul, recently appeared in a morning show in North America where the host repeatedly compared them to BTS and commented on a member’s English. During the live broadcast of their guest appearance on “KTLA 5 Morning Show,” the host…
· Ryan General
Chinese Boot Camp Turns Boys into Alpha Males Because K-Pop Has Made Them ‘effeminate’
In response to a warning made by authorities against the so-called “crisis in Chinese masculinity,” a teacher founded the Real Man Training Club, a Chinese boot camp that teaches boys to become alpha males. In the boot camp, coach Tang Haiyan places the young men in various…
· Ryan General
K-Pop Star’s Career Gets Terminated After He’s Caught Doing Meth
South Korean singer-songwriter Park Yoochun was immediately terminated from his contract with management agency C-JeS after testing positive for illegal drug use. The 33-year-old star, formerly of K-pop group JYJ, was tested for drugs after coming under suspicion due to a…
· Carl Samson
Obsessive K-Pop Fans Smash Glass Barriers to Meet Idols at Shanghai Airport
A swarm of obsessive fans caused chaos at Shanghai Airport as they tried to catch a glimpse of their idols on Saturday. A list that surfaced on Weibo shows a total of 16 pop stars who either departed or arrived that day, including Deng Chaoyuan, who emerged from the second…
· Bryan Ke
K-Pop Stars Make Unexpected Cameos in Marvel’s ‘Runaways’ Comic
The eleventh issue of Marvel’s “Runaways,” which was first published in July 2018, apparently contains a very surprising cameo that even eagle-eyed fans only noticed recently. As it turns out, Red Velvet’s Irene and BTS’ V, whose real name is Kim Tae-hyung, apparently made an…
· Carl Samson
K-Pop’s ‘First Gay Idol’ Releases New Music Video and It’s LIT
Holland, the first known K-Pop idol to come out of the closet, is back for his fans with a new openly-gay music video. The 23-year-old soloist dropped the new song on Sunday, the lead track of a self-titled EP that emerged from a crowdfunding campaign last year.
· Ryan General
K-Pop Star Sprints at Full Speed in Airport to Get Away from Obsessed Fangirls
A video of K-Pop star Park Woo Jin trying to escape overly-obsessive fans known as sasaengs has sparked netizens’ concerns for the former Wanna One member’s safety. Woo Jin recently made his return to South Korea following his appearance on the Thailand edition of SBS variety…
· Ryan General
K-Pop Star Could Get Over 7 Years in Prison For Filming Sex With Women Without Consent
Jung Joon Young, the K-pop star who earlier admitted to filming himself having sex with women without their consent, is looking at up to seven and a half years imprisonment upon conviction. “His illegally filmed hidden camera videos and distribution against the victims carries…
· Carl Samson
K-Pop Star Seungri Retires After Being Charged With Running Prostitution Ring
K-pop superstar Seungri announced his retirement from the industry — and consequently his part in legendary boy group BIGBANG — amid allegations that he supplied prostitutes to rich foreigners investing in his business in 2015. The 28-year-old entrepreneur, who is scheduled to…
· Carl Samson
K-Pop Fans Apparently Broke Instagram After Kang Daniel Made a New Account
Daniel Kang, the K-pop idol holding the Guinness World Record for “Fastest Time to Gain 1 Million Followers on Instagram,” has created a new account on the platform. The former Wanna One center opened his own page this week following a widely-reported dispute with his…
· Ryan General
K-Pop Star is Too Young to Drink Wine So Taiwan Gave Him Boba Milk Tea Instead
South Korean singer Park JiHoon was given bubble tea to drink before meeting with fans during his recent visit to Taiwan. The 19-year-old K-pop star, whose Korean boy group “Wanna One” disbanded earlier this year, made Taipei his first stop for a fan meeting during his solo Asia…
· Bryan Ke
K-Pop Idols Go Viral After Being Called ‘Korean Lesbian Billionaire’ Couple Worth $170 Billion
Many netizens fell hard for the now-viral tweet stating that a Korean lesbian billionaire couple Ha Soo Young and Kim Ji Woo had just tied the knot, becoming the world’s richest couple with a combined net worth of $170 billion. [BREAKING] Lesbian Korean Billionaires, Ha Soo…
· Ryan General
First Indian K-pop Idol Accused of Racism After Instagram Post
A member of the upcoming international K-POP boy band Z-Boys is being criticized online over an allegedly racist post on social media. Siddhant Arora, known by his stage name Sid, was reportedly caught captioning a picture of himself on Instagram with the N-word.
· Carl Samson
South Korea Asks TV Networks Not to Show K-Pop Idols Who ‘Look-Alike,’ Immediately Regrets It
After stirring up controversy and criticism, the South Korean government retracted their set of guidelines for broadcasters that restricts the airtime of K-Pop stars, actors, and singers with “similar external appearance.” According to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family,…
· Elliot Sang
ABC Thinks K-Pop Group BLACKPINK is ‘Singing In Japanese’ and I’m Screaming
South Korean girl group BLACKPINK performed on ABC’s Good Morning America, and the video, which has amassed half a million views on YouTube in a day, features an embarrassing error on the part of the closed captioning department. It’s not uncommon for English subtitles to…
· Carl Samson
BTS Makes History as the First K-Pop Presenters at the Grammys
BTS has made history yet again as the first K-Pop group to present at the Grammys on Sunday. The group, composed of RM, J-Hope, Jimin, Jin, Jungkook, Suga and V, presented Best R&B Album to H.E.R. for her self-titled album.
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BTS connects to HYBE, Weverse, memberships, merch, and tickets.
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&TEAM
&TEAM is HYBE's first homegrown Japanese boy group -- a localization play that plants the HYBE system directly inside the world's second-biggest music market rather than exporting Korean acts into it.
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2PM
2PM invented the 'beast idol' -- JYP's masculine, acrobatic counter-brand that opened the Japanese arena market for K-pop boy groups and made Thai member Nichkhun one of the first non-Korean idols engineered as a pan-Asian sales asset.
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aespa
SM's flagship 4th-gen group turned streaming dominance into arena-scale global touring — the clearest sign K-pop's next tier can headline, not just chart.
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AKMU
AKMU are the sibling duo who won K-Pop Star and picked YG on their own terms -- 'The Nation's Siblings' whose songwriting-first model gave YG a rare non-idol prestige asset that outlasted a full 12-year label run.
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BABYMONSTER
YG built BABYMONSTER as its designated BLACKPINK successor, and the pressure is the point -- the label bet its next decade of revenue on a seven-member group that had to shatter rookie sales records just to justify the comparison.
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BIGBANG
BigBang were the original architects of K-pop as a global export business -- the first mainstream Korean hip-hop idols whose stadium tours and merch empire proved a Korean act could out-earn Western pop stars and became the template YG monetized for a decade.
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BLACKPINK
The genre's biggest girl group returned as a group after years of solo dominance — testing whether K-pop's Western peak was a moment or a plateau. 'GO' answered.
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BOYNEXTDOOR
BOYNEXTDOOR is rapper Zico's KOZ Entertainment absorbed into the HYBE machine -- an artist-founded label that HYBE bought and turned into a hit factory, showing how HYBE grows by acquiring creative shops, not just building them.
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BTS
BTS didn't just come back — they re-coronated K-pop's top tier. 'Arirang' fuses Korean folk roots with global pop, and the tour proved the machine HYBE built scales to stadiums worldwide.
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BTS
BTS connects to HYBE, the company behind BTS, Weverse, albums, merch, memberships, tickets, and concerts.
Company · Korea · KOSDAQ:035760
CJ ENM
CJ ENM is behind TV, music, film, award shows, and major cultural exports that shape what people watch.
Company · Korea · KRX:352820
HYBE
One of the layers behind BTS, SEVENTEEN, TXT.
Company · Korea · KOSDAQ:035900
JYP Entertainment
JYP is tied to groups that drive albums, tours, subscriptions, merch, and international fan activity.
Company · Korea · KOSDAQ:041510
SM Entertainment
SM is tied to idol groups, tours, fan clubs, and the long-running system behind some of K-pop's most recognizable acts.
Company · Korea · KOSDAQ:122870
YG Entertainment
YG connects global K-pop attention to touring, brand deals, fan demand, and artist-centered entertainment revenue.
Company · Korea · KRX:251270
Netmarble
Netmarble is Korea's mobile-game powerhouse that turns pop-culture IP into games — from BTS titles to Marvel — and is one of HYBE's largest shareholders, linking K-pop and gamin...
HYBE · K-pop · KRX:352820
A BTS comeback is not just songs. It’s albums, merch, tickets, and Weverse.
A BTS comeback can start with one stream on your phone, then turn into a fan-club sign-up, merch order, livestream ticket, and more time spent inside Weverse.