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· Carl Samson
Epic War Between K-Pop and J-Pop Fans Erupts Over Mnet Asian Music Awards Performance
Viewers could not help but compare K-pop and J-pop as the genres came head-to-head on one massive stage last week. Performing for the Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) in South Korea, J-pop girl group AKB48 collaborated with five female K-pop acts in what several netizens thought…
· Bryan Ke
K-Pop Star’s ‘Careless Driving’ Causes Car Accident, Gets Celebrity Treatment While Victims Ignored
Girls’ Generation member, Taeyeon, got into a car accident on Nov. 28 at around 8 p.m. in Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea. Witnesses said that the K-pop artist accidentally rear-ended a taxi, which then hit another vehicle — a white Audi — in front of it, resulting in a…
· Heather Johnson Yu
North Korean Soldier Who Escaped to South Korea Already Loves K-Pop and American TV Shows
The United Nations has released video footage of a North Korean defector fleeing the country, his fellow soldiers shooting him in hot pursuit. The video, which is broken up into five sections, begins at 3:11 p.m. local time on November 13 with the defector driving a military…
· Carl Samson
Former K-Pop Idol Reveals How She Was Sexually Harassed By Entertainment CEO
A former member of K-Pop girl group After School has opened up about her sexual harassment experience involving the CEO of an entertainment label. Yoo So-young shared the grim details of her past in SBS’ “Heard It Through the Grapevine,” where the topic of sexual harassment was…
· Bryan Ke
Colombian TV Show Shamefully Disrespects K-Pop Group BTS With Racist Gesture
A Colombian television show has come under fire for doing the highly offensive and insulting “slant eyes” gesture. The racist gesture happened during the show’s segment while introducing the massively popular South Korean K-pop group, BTS. According to Korea Herald, just as the…
· Editorial Staff
Korean Teens Go Crazy Meeting K-Pop Star, Completely Ignore Melania Trump
Meeting the U.S. First Lady is considered by many to be a high honor. However, when in Korea and in the presence of a K-pop star, the game completely changes. Melania Trump was in South Korea to speak at a state-sponsored event for the 2018 Winter Olympics when she met a group…
· Bryan Ke
K-Pop Star Sparks Outrage for Ignorant Comments to Sam Okyere About His Home Country Ghana
Japanese-Korean singer Yasuo Namekawa, better known by his stage name in South Korea as Kangnam, is now under fire for his highly insensitive comments about the Republic of Ghana. In an episode of “My Ugly Duckling” which aired on Oct. 22 at SBS (Seoul Broadcasting System),…
· Bryan Ke
K-Pop Idol Luhan Announces New Girlfriend, Literally Breaks Weibo Servers
Luhan, former member of the Korean-Chinese pop group EXO, is now in a relationship with Chinese actress Guan, and the announcement broke China’s Twitter-like social media platform, Sina Weibo. The leading social media platform in China became inaccessible to many users on Sunday…
· Carl Samson
Meet the Korean-Mexican K-Pop Star Who’s Going to Be the Next Biggest Idol
Samuel Arredondo Kim, 15, is a Korean-Mexican idol who’s ready to take on the world of K-pop. At his age, Samuel is already a solo artist, a relatively uncommon sight in the industry populated by idol groups with members in their late teens and early adulthood.
· Heather Johnson Yu
FuseTV’s K-Pop Podcast Cancelled Over Outrage Caused By Episode That Insulted BTS, GFriend
FuseTV’s K-pop podcast, K-Stop, has been cancelled following the controversy surrounding their most recent episode. The news comes in a two-part post to both Instagram and Twitter by one of the former hosts, Jeff Benjamin. pic.twitter.com/QpOVBAkWHS
· Heather Johnson Yu
K-Pop Trainee Sparks Outrage After Suggesting The Size of BIGBANG Star T.O.P’s Penis
Han Seo Hee, the trainee who vaped marijuana with T.O.P., recently took to Instagram live to answer viewer questions and revealed shocking information about her upcoming debut, relationship status with T.O.P., and, allegedly, his “member” size. According to AllKpop, Han referred…
· Heather Johnson Yu
FuseTV Aggressively Regrets Insulting K-Pop Groups BTS and G-Friend in Now-Banned Podcast
FuseTV‘s K-pop podcast, K-Stop, has deleted their latest episode after receiving backlash from BTS and G-Friend fans. Listeners were angry with Jeff Benjamin, Tina Xu, and Brooke Bunce for comments regarding the hosts’ distaste for certain aspects of the band, including…
· Kyle Encina
K-Pop Treasure BTS Wonders Why So Many People Love Them
K-pop group BTS has become South Korea’s top boy band and achieved international stardom, a status that they admitted got them “thinking”. Given the group’s wide fan base, the BTS members have “seriously wondered” how they became so highly-revered by their fans, according to…
· Bryan Ke
K-Pop Girl Group ‘O My Jewel’ to Debut First Ever Caucasian Idol
Sofia Ramazanova, simply referred to as Sofia in the upcoming K-pop group O My Jewel, is going to be the very first Caucasian female idol ever to debut in a group in South Korea.
· Ryan General
There’s a New ‘Pretty’ K-Pop Boy Band and Twitter Has Feelings About It
New-Ace, a new boy band from South Korea that has yet to make its official debut, has already generated quite a buzz due to its four members’ very distinctive looks. Formerly known as J-Peace, the K-pop group immediately caught social media’s attention following the release of…
· Carl Samson
Reporter Accuses BTS of Cheating at the Billboard Music Awards, Gets Destroyed By K-Pop Fans
A Korean reporter sparked fury after questioning BTS’s eligibility for the Top Social Artist Award it won at this year’s Billboard Music Awards following allegations of illegal marketing practices by its agency. Journalist Jeon Won of Xports News wrote an article about a…
· Kyle Encina
K-Pop Star From Wanna One Reveals He Was Bullied in School For Being ‘Ugly’
Wanna One member Kang Daniel cheered up a bullied fan by sharing his own experience of being a victim of bullying. Daniel comforted the 17-year-old girl after hearing her horrible experience with bullies during the “Hello Counselor” segment of KBS 2TV. The girl revealed that she…
· Ryan General
K-Pop Powerhouse BTS Just Set a Guinness World Record
To say that BTS in on a roll this year is an understatement. After winning multiple international awards, the ultra popular K-Pop supergroup recently received the honor of being featured in the 2018 edition of “The Guinness World Records”. The seven-member South Korean boy band,…
· Bryan Ke
Sam Smith Throws Shade at K-pop, Regrets it For Life
British singer Sam Smith, who is famous for the singles “I’m Not the Only One” and “Stay With Me,” is now under fire from Korean pop fans (also known as K-pop) for throwing shade at the genre. According to fans’ discovery, Smith had apparently liked a Twitter post made on August…
· Kyle Encina
K-Pop Star Kai of EXO Reveals He Used to Be Mistaken For a Girl
EXO member Kai revealed he used to rock long hair when he was younger, leading him to some awkward situations in a startling revelation during the third season of the South Korean talk show “Happy Together”. During the Star Golden Bell segment of the talk show, the 23-year-old…
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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.