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BTS, NCT, Seventeen, EXO and SHINee copped the first five places for the most talked about K-pop boy bands for the month of April. 

Korean actress Park Hye-soo turned the tables on her former friend and schoolmate who claimed to be bullied by the star in middle school and revealed that she was, in fact, the real victim of bullying.

Hanteo Chart, South Korea’s music chart, has released the top 10 best-selling albums for the month of February 2021.

Korea’s Gaon Music Chart has released new certifications covering albums, downloads and streaming. 

Korean media outlet Ilgan Sports conducted its annual Lunar New Year (Seollal) survey among K-pop stars to choose their favorite fellow idols in different categories. 

The Philippines ranked fifth in the world with the most K-pop fans and placed fourth among countries with the most tweets related to K-pop in 2020, according to Twitter.

K-pop boy band NCT grabbed first place on the monthly physical album chart in January with “Resonance Pt. 2.”

Hanteo Chart has revealed the top-selling albums released by Korean male and female groups, and male and female solo artists in the second half of 2020 covering the period July 1 to Dec. 31.

Rookie K-pop idol group Treasure topped the weekly music chart with their first official debut album “The First Step: Treasure Effect.”

Gaon Music Chart has released the final figures for the top-selling albums in South Korea in 2020 and has also published new certifications.

Hanteo Chart has revealed the top 30 best-selling albums in South Korea in 2020, covering the period Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2020.

TC Candler’s The 100 Most Handsome Faces of 2020 includes 24 K-pop idols, touting it as “widely considered to be the most internationally recognized and prestigious list of its kind.”

Gaon Music Chart has released the rankings for the best-selling artists in Korea in 2020 based on the total sales of physical albums. 

K-pop boy bands NCT, ENHYPEN and GOT7 garnered the first three places on the weekly music chart.

Singers TWICE, NCT, BTS, GOT7, Monsta X and Im Young-woong, and actors Kim Soo-hyun and Lee Jung-jae emerged as the grand prize winners at the 2020 Asia Artist Awards (AAA) held on Nov. 28 in South Korea.

K-pop fans in the country and abroad have launched different donation drives and awareness on social media to help the Philippines, which has been ravaged by recent typhoons “Ulysses” (“Vamco”) and “Rolly” (“Goni”).

K-pop idol group Super Junior marked their 15th year in the business with a concert and an exhibition that showed their history.

K-pop groups Seventeen, NCT, BLACKPINK, TXT and TWICE copped the first five places in album sales for the month of October.