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Teen Choice Awards Enrages K-pop Fans for Disrespecting BTS
K-pop supergroup BTS recently took home its first “Teen Choice” award, but fans felt the ceremony prepared for their idols was an underwhelming, anticlimactic letdown. BTS won the Choice International Artist award on August 13 local time at the Galen Center in Los Angeles,…
· Heather Johnson Yu
Japanese YouTuber Breaks the Internet With Epic K-Pop Star Makeup
Kondo Yohdi, a Japanese beauty blogger, has gained a lot of South Korean fans due to his K-Pop looks. According to All KPop, Yonhdi’s videos of his Korean beauty product reviews are going viral on community boards in South Korea. One that stands out specifically is his review on…
· Ryan General
Aspiring K-pop Stars Enroll in ‘Idol School’ For a Shot at Fame
Class is now in session for aspiring K-pop stars in a recently launched South Korean reality television series which provides a unique take on creating the ultimate K-pop girl group. The show, “Idol School”, gives viewers an interesting behind-the-scenes look on how 41 talented…
· Heather Johnson Yu
Why K-Pop Stars Keep Making This Hand Sign
Excuse me, beautiful K-Pop idols, but what is this? Like, what are you doing?
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Meet the First Openly Gay K-Pop Star Who’s About to Go Off With a Bang
While K-pop artists are looking to make it big in the west, the first openly gay K-pop singer is about to take South Korea’s music industry by storm. Marshall Bang, a singer from Orange County, California, describes his sound as “very much R&B based” with a mix of soul and…
· Carl Samson
K-Pop Girl Group A-Pink Pranks Office Worker During Night Shift
It was just another night of work for a female Korean employee until things went from chill to eerie.
· Carl Samson
Racist Brazilian Host Berates K-Pop Group KARD on TV, Audience Cheers
K-Pop quartet KARD just became the unfortunate targets of a Brazilian host who had no problem berating them with racial slurs on live television. The male-female group, composed of BM, Somin, Jiwoo and J.seph (left to right), recently appeared on Brazilian variety show “Turma Do…
· Ryan General
North Koreans Risk Their Lives To Tweet Support to K-Pop Group EXO
EXO’s popularity has apparently reached their northern neighbor as their fans in North Korea have recently been found expressing their support via Twitter. Considering government restrictions on South Korean media, are North Korean fans risking their lives for EXO?
· Ryan General
Kiwi Singer Becomes Huge K-Pop Star After Her Father’s Simple Suggestion
As a member of the massively popular K-pop group BlackPink, Roseanne Park has so far achieved global success along with bandmates Lisa Manoban, Jennie Kim, and Ji Soo Kim since the group launched in August 2016. The Kiwi-Korean singer, who’s born in New Zealand and raised in…
· Carl Samson
Why K-Pop Legend Hyori Lee Feels Bad for Young Idol Groups
Hyori Lee, who just returned after a long hiatus, has openly expressed that she feels bad for today’s K-Pop groups. Hyori, dubbed as the “Queen of K-Pop” and the “Nation’s Fairy,” belongs to the so-called first generation of idols—artists recognized as essentially the beginning…
· Heather Johnson Yu
Queen of K-Pop Hyori Lee Returns With New Track “Seoul” After Long Hiatus
It’s Hyori, 기집애 It’s the princess Lee Hyori – she’s back, 2017! Earlier today, The Nation’s Fairy dropped her latest track, Seoul, to grace the ears of adoring, patient fans everywhere.
· Carl Samson
Oblivious Gamer Fails to Notice K-Pop Group Dancing Behind Him in Internet Cafe
As anyone who ever found his or her eyes locked on a computer screen — for whatever reason — knows, noticing what’s going on around you is not so easy. That might explain why a gamer in South Korea took some time before he realized that his “fellow players” were actually the…
· Carl Samson
Shaq Adorably Proposes to Chinese K-Pop Star on TV
Shaquille O’Neal asked for the hand of f(x)’s Victoria while filming the Chinese TV show “Beat the Champions.” Victoria, or Song Qian, leader of K-Pop girl group f(x), is currently active as an actress in her home country of China.
· Carl Samson
Why K-Pop Stars Just Boycotted a Concert for U.S. Soldiers in South Korea
A number of K-Pop artists did not show up for a concert for soldiers of the United States Forces Korea (USFK) on Saturday in response to the public’s sentiment over a tragic memory. The concert, organized by the municipal government of Uijeongbu in Gyeonggi Province, was set to…
· Carl Samson
K-Pop Star Featured on the NBA’s Facebook Gets Trashed By Their Racist Fans Instead
A post on NBA’s Facebook page featuring Korean-American singer Jay Park has been flooded with racist comments from netizens who could at least pass on as plain ignorant. The shout-out, which showed Park posing for the camera in a Cavs jersey, has received at least 2,300 comments…
· Khier Casino
K-Pop Singer Investigated After Boyfriend’s Friend Offered Her Marijuana
K-Pop Singer Son Ga-in is now the subject of investigation after she claimed that a friend of her actor boyfriend, Joo Ji-hoon, suggested she smoke marijuana, which is very illegal for recreational use in South Korea, for her depression and insomnia. “Joo’s friend offered me…
· King Malleta
Meet the Filipino-American Who Could Become K-Pop’s Next Biggest Star
Meet Kreisha Chu, also known as Kriesha Tiu, an 18-year-old singing sensation from the Philippines who may have the potential to become the next K-Pop idol. Chu was born in Cebu, Philippines and then later moved to San Francisco, California. According to Koreaboo, while Chu was…
· Ryan General
Fans Are Devastated After K-Pop Idol Allegedly Undergoes Double Eyelid Surgery
A popular K-pop artist is facing criticisms from fans after apparently having undergone double eyelid surgery. Spotted at a recent public appearance, Yoojin of talented Korean girl group CLC now sports outer double eyelids.
· Carl Samson
K-Pop Girl Group SISTAR is Officially Disbanding
Legendary K-Pop girl group SISTAR is disbanding after seven years of music, according to their label. Starship Entertainment announced the group’s fate in a tweet on Monday, thanking fans for their love and support:
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BTS Member Goes Viral After Non K-Pop Fans See Him at Billboard Music Awards
BTS made history at Sunday night’s 2017 Billboard Music Awards after nabbing the Top Social Artist award, but one handsome band member caught the attention of thousands online. Jin took the Internet by storm and was trending on social media during the awards show for standing…
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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.