Jung Kook was named the most searched male group idol on Korean YouTube by 2026. According to official accounts from HYBE’s subsidiary music analysis platforms “About Music” and “Pop Planet,” he will rank highest among g…
To capitalize on the five-day Golden Week holiday, KBS, MBC, and SBS released a total of over 10 new variety shows.…
To capitalize on the five-day Golden Week holiday, KBS, MBC, and SBS released over a dozen new variety shows. The competition among these three terrestrial broadcasters has intensified.…
The K-pop-based boy group SANTOS BRAVOS, produced by HYBE Latin America, made its debut on a Korean Music Show in April.…
Korea’s four largest K-Pop agencies have reached an agreement to jointly organize a global mega festival. HYBE, SM Entertainment, YG Entertainment, and JYP Entertainment announced that they are preparing to establish a j…
BTS will hold a world tour concert at the Asiad Main Stadium in Busan next June. It is expected that 110,000 fans known as “ARMY” will visit Busan for these two-day events on June 12 and 13, with 53,000 fans attending ea…
BTS’s latest album, “ARIRANG,” continues to perform strongly on the Billboard Global chart. Its title track, “SWIM,” has maintained the top spot on both the Billboard Global 200 and the Global (Excluding U.S.) charts for…
The Seoul Police Agency has filed an arrest warrant request for HYBE’s chairman, Bang, on charges of violating the Capital Market Act.…
Activities by HYBE’s headquarters continue even after BTS’s comeback. It is groups from various labels that are driving the K-POP market this April.
South Korean police have filed an arrest warrant for Bang Si-Hyuk, the chairman of the music giant HYBE. The Seoul Police Agency requested that prosecutors issue the warrant on charges that Bang illegally obtained over $…
HYBE, South Korea’s largest music entertainment company, is facing its greatest crisis since its founding. This is because the Financial Crime Investigation Team of the Seoul Police Agency has filed an application for an…
To commemorate the release of BTS’s fifth studio album, “ARIRANG,” the members shared details about the album’s creation process and their thoughts on this Comeback through interviews with various media outlets.…
Bang Si-hyuk, chairman of HYBE—the top domestic music entertainment company—has been subject to an arrest warrant issued on charges of fraudulent misconduct under the Capital Market Act.…
BTS successfully held its first concert in Japan at the Tokyo Dome from the 17th to the 18th, marking seven years since their last performance there.…
BTS will hold the large-scale urban project “The City Arirang” in Las Vegas and Busan to commemorate the release of their fifth studio album, “ARIRANG.” This project features installation art that projects BTS’s story on…
BTS took to the stage at Japan’s Tokyo Dome for the first time in 7 years and 5 months. They held performances as part of their “ARIRANG” world tour on the 17th and 18th (local time), selling out both shows and drawing 1…
Jung Kook’s solo track “Seven” has set a new record for Asian artists on both Billboard and Spotify charts. It reached position 159 on the Billboard Global 200 chart released on April 18, simultaneously becoming the firs…
BTS began its new world tour in Goyang after a six-and-a-half-year hiatus. The concerts titled “BTS World Tour ‘ARIRANG’ in Goyang,” held on the 9th and from the 11th to 12th at the Goyang Comprehensive Stadium in Gyeong…
Netflix demonstrated the massive impact of global live content through a live broadcast of BTS’s Comeback event.…
The “Big 4” entertainment companies in South Korea are all facing simultaneous stock price declines. Despite K-pop’s strong performance in global markets, investors remain cautious.…
As the stock prices of K-POP entertainment companies plummet, successive downgrades to their target stock prices have been announced.
HYBE has unveiled the final lineup for “Webers Festival 2026,” which will take place on June 6–7 at Seoul Olympic Park.…
The stock prices of South Korea’s four largest entertainment companies—SM Entertainment, YG Entertainment, HYBE, and JYP Entertainment—are all declining simultaneously.…
BTS is simultaneously expanding its cultural and commercial influence within the global popular culture sphere.
BTS will appear on the covers of Rolling Stone editions in 16 different countries around the world at the same time.…