GFRIEND (Twitter) K-pop group GFRIEND will be leaving their agency, Source Music, after six years. On May 18, Source Music, a label under HYBE Corp. (formerly Big Hit Entertainment), made the announcement. “The exclusive artist contract with GFRIEND and Source Music will be concluded on May 22....
(Clockwise from top left) Brave Girls, BLACKPINK, Oh My Girl, TWICE, STAYC and Red Velvet (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook) Brave Girls, BLACKPINK, Oh My Girl, TWICE and STAYC grabbed the first five spots in the latest K-pop girl group brand reputation rankings for May. The Korea Corporate...
(Clockwise from top left) BTS, TXT, NU’EST, Seventeen, ENHYPEN and GFriend (Twitter) HYBE, the former Big Hit Entertainment, is planning to debut new K-pop groups starting this year. The company, which currently manages K-pop artists has BTS, Seventeen, TXT, NU’EST, GFriend and ENHYPEN, will be...
Stray Kids’ Han Ji-sung (left) and GFRIEND’s Sowon (Instagram) Two K-pop stars were embroiled in controversies this week: K-pop boy band Stray Kids’ Han Ji-sung for lyrics he wrote in the past and K-pop girl group GFRIEND’s leader Sowon for uploading photos with a Nazi mannequin. Han...
The chairman of Australia’s leading civil rights organization has called on K-pop girl group GFRIEND leader Sowon to make a sincere apology and educate herself about the Holocaust after she uploaded photos posing with a Nazi mannequin in a cafe in South Korea. Sowon posted the photos on her...
K-pop girl group GFRIEND’s leader Sowon has earned the ire of netizens after she uploaded photos with a Nazi mannequin. Two Instagram photos showed Sowon hugging and adoring a mannequin dressed in Nazi uniform. She quickly deleted the photos but the post already created a firestorm among...
GFRIEND (Twitter) K-pop girl group GFriend officially ended their promotions for “Mago,” the main single of their third studio album “Walpurgis Night.” The album, containing 11 tracks, was released on Nov. 9 and sold 46,702 copies in the first week of release, according to Hanteo Chart....
K-pop artists under Big Hit Entertainment labels will be holding the 2021 New Year’s Eve Live concert on Dec. 31. Presented by Weverse app and organized by Big Hit 360 Co., the online and in-person concert will feature BTS, NU’EST, TXT, GFriend, Lee Hyun, Bumzu and upcoming boy band ENHYPEN....
K-pop idol group Super Junior marked their 15th year in the business with a concert and an exhibition that showed their history. Super Junior debuted on Nov. 6, 2005 with the song “Twins (Knock Out)” with 12 members. Kyuhyun was added in 2006. To celebrate the milestone, Super Junior held an...
BTS (Twitter) K-pop superstars BTS will hold concerts in October and release a new album in the fourth quarter of the year. This was revealed by Big Hit Entertainment led by chairman and CEO Bang Si-hyuk during its corporate briefing streamed on YouTube on Aug. 13. The concerts, titled...
(Clockwise from top left) EXO-SC, ATEEZ, Red Velvet’s Irene and Seulgi, SF9, GFriend, BLACKPINK, Stray Kids, Lee Jin-hyuk, AB6IX and Woodz (Twitter) South Korea’s Hanteo Chart released the list of artists who topped its monthly music chart for July. EXO-SC, composed of Sehun and Chanyeol, took...
