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K-Pop Fans Launch an All Out War With Miley Cyrus’ Fans Following ‘Racist’ Tweets
Miley Cyrus fans were sent into a frenzy today when they saw the hashtag #RIPMileyCyrus trending on Twitter. Many were worried thinking the pop star had passed away. What an awful thing to wake up this morning and one of the first things you see is #RIPMileyCyrus! My heart sank!…
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China May Ban K-Pop and K-Dramas Over South Korea’s Missile Defense System
Following South Korea and the United States’ decision to deploy the former’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), China, worried about the system’s proximity, is reportedly planning to restrict/ban Korean entertainment for an indefinite period. In response to North…
· Ryan General
Korean Women Undergo 4 Years of Hell and Plastic Surgery to Become K-Pop Stars
Women in the K-Pop scene are internationally known for their talent, skills, and good-looks. However, they are also often criticized for looking too similar and manufactured, even by Western standards. Girl groups produced by local talent management firms in South Korea are…
· Ryan General
Meet the K-Pop Group Handpicked By Kim Jung Un
All-female music group Moranbong Band is not your typical “girl band.” From their “conservative sexy” looks to their eerily catchy tunes, North Korea’s own K-pop group is unlike anything you’ve seen or heard in the music industry. Composed of about two dozen female musicians…
· Ryan General
Model Gets Attacked By K-Pop Star’s Crazy Fans After He Follows Her on Instagram
Fans of Korean pop boy band EXO have been tormenting a model online after a member of the band followed her on Instagram. Filipino-Australian Lily May Mac, Lily Macapinlac in real life, is internet-famous for being a paid product model on Instagram.
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Alibaba Buys 4 Percent Stake in K-Pop Giant SM Entertainment For $30 Million
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has bought a minority stake in South Korean entertainment company S.M. Entertainment. The deal was made public on February 11 and Alibaba now owns a 4% equity stake in the K-pop conglomerate, reports Allkpop.
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Teenage K-Pop Star Suffers Backlash in China After Waving Taiwanese Flag
Sixteen-year-old Korean pop singer Chou Tzuyu is being punished for waving a Taiwanese flag during an online broadcast. Tzuyu’s agency, JYP Entertainment, is being forced to cancel her bookings in China as a result of the controversy surrounding the incident, reported Apple…
· Max Chang
K-Pop Group Detained at LAX For Being Suspected Sex Workers
The all-girl K-pop band Oh My Girl was detained in LAX on December 9 under the suspicion that they were a group of sex workers after a misunderstanding about the word “sister”. The band, which includes eight members, were in the United States to shoot the cover of their upcoming…
· Ryan General
Meet the American Exchange Student Going Viral in Korea For His Amazing Singing Voice
Joseph Butso has been making headlines after a video him singing in perfect Korean on a famous South Korean reality show went viral. With his passion for singing and love for all things Korean, Butso decided to move to South Korea in 2012 after his graduation from Ohio State…
· Ryan General
Chinese Netizens Are Furious at This South Korean K-Swiss Commercial
A South Korean ad for an American footwear brand K-Swiss has angered Chinese netizens for the alleged “insulting” and “humiliating” depiction of its Chinese character. The TV commercial, featuring Korean star Park Bo Gum, was deemed disrespectful by several users of…
· Laura Dang
Fake Leather Store in Thailand Pulls the Most Shocking Anti-Animal Cruelty Stunt Yet
A creative new anti-animal cruelty campaign has a shocking way of getting their message across. It would have been a day like any other for shoppers at the CentralWorld mall, but a pop-up store called The Leather Works had a horrific surprise for their consumers. Men and women…
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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.