Donations are pouring in from celebrities like the members of BTS and G-Dragon to support the victims displaced by the wildfires in the southeast as well as the firefighters in a grueling battle to suppress the blazes.

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BTS, G-Dragon and more donate to victims, firefighters as wildfires sweep southeast

Friends of late K-pop star Moonbin will release a song dedicated to the artist to commemorate the second anniversary of his death, according to agency Fantagio on Friday.

Friends collaborate to commemorate deceased K-pop star Moonbin

Singer Chuu will release her third EP "Only Cry in the Rain" on April 21, her agency ATRP said on Friday with the release of a teaser.

Chuu to release 3rd EP 'Only Cry in the Rain' on April 21

Virtual boy band Plave made history as the first virtual K-pop idol group to top a TV music program. The band's success and fan base illustrate a growing acceptance of virtual idols, with predictions that they may surpass human idols in the future.

Virtual idols may be the future of K-pop groups

Enhypen will be appearing on MBC's "Show! MusicCore" for the first time since 2019, signaling the resolution of a long-standing dispute between HYBE and MBC. This development highlights a changing power dynamic between K-pop and TV stations.

HYBE-MBC tensions have thawed, but what happens now?

What sort of mistake does it take to destroy 70,000 album copies just weeks before their release?

Kingdom, Seventeen get in trouble for cultural inappropriateness

What does Omega X have to do with Fifty Fifty? Nothing originally, but now apparently, it's everything.

Following a recent episode of channel SBS’s investigative exposé “Unanswered Questions” centering on girl group Fifty Fifty, the spotlight suddenly turned to Omega X after a YouTuber claimed that the band was not an innocent victim of its former agency but “a Fifty Fifty that went according to plan.”

Fifty Fifty, Omega X, and the reason idols turn their backs on agencies

Rumor has it that EXO’s Baekhyun is leaving his agency SM Entertainment and taking his bandmates Chen and Xiumin with him. Long story short — he’s not leaving, at least not until January 2024.
Baekhyun, Chen and Xiumin have butted heads with SM Entertainment since earlier in the year when they claimed they were mistreated by the agency and demanded their contracts be nulled by the court.
The brawl took full shape when the three members, also members of an EXO subunit named EXO-CBX, demanded their agency SM Entertainment terminate the “unfair” exclusive contracts with the three members and announced it to the press. SM Entertainment argued that an outside party was trying to sweet-talk the members into joining it instead while the members claimed that the agency had been abusing its power over the artists.
Three weeks went by with both parties playing the blame game, but they managed to come to an agreement in late June after fixing certain clauses in the contract for the three members.
So why this news now, over a month after everyone shook hands and smiled for the camera?


Baekhyun's entrepreneurial dreams backfire for fans

The path to success is slow for some stars, but a meteoric rise right to the top for others. The latter was the case for girl group Blackpink, rightly crowned the queen of K-pop since day one of its debut on Aug. 8, 2016.
After years of breaking records and writing history, the quartet celebrates the seventh anniversary of its debut on Tuesday with a gigantic elephant sitting in the center of the celebration hall — will all four members renew their contracts with YG Entertainment?

At Blackpink's seventh annivesary, 'To renew or not to renew' is the question

Once dubbed a “miracle from a small company,” girl group Fifty Fifty is now the butt of the joke.

The “icon of betrayal” and the “golden goose that disemboweled itself” are some of the new, mocking monikers it has earned ever since it became embroiled in a legal battle with its agency Attrakt last month.

How Cupid's arrow backfired on girl group Fifty Fifty

Just as there are millennials and Gen Zs, K-pop also has its generations that categorize different acts by the year they were “born.” And it's already onto the fifth generation — or is it?

Has K-pop already entered its fifth generation?

Singer Choi Yena is one of a handful of popular female soloists in K-pop, an industry where solo female singers have traditionally struggled to gain a fan base or see much commercial success.

 

Last year, the former member of girl group IZ*ONE (2018-21) established a solid career on her own, debuting with the song “Smiley” which peaked at No. 5 on the Melon Top 100 chart and sold over 110,000 physical copies.

 

Her two following EPs also sold well over 110,000 copies each, so it was expected she would be back with another hit when she released more music on June 27.  

Yena’s new EP “Hate XX” quickly became the talk of the town — not because of the singer’s talented performance nor the pastel high-teen aesthetic, but because it was instantly slammed with accusations that the lead track’s entire concept was to disrespectful American pop star Olivia Rodrigo.

Homage or disrespectful? Choi Yena’s ‘Hate Rodrigo’ has divided fans

The term “nugu,” meaning “who” or “who is that” in Korean, has been part of the K-pop lingo gaining widespread use among listeners in the 2020s. In a highly saturated sea of idol groups, it has been used to refer to lesser-known artists as “nobodies.” Although it was first used to deride obscure acts, the word has been gaining more positive connotations over time, and is now used to describe under-appreciated groups waiting to meet their heyday.

Not even chart-topping success can drag these K-pop artists out of obscurity 

TWS [SUMMER BEAT!] Second EP press showcase 06/24/24 [DANIELA GONZALEZ PEREZ]

TWS [SUMMER BEAT!] Second EP press showcase 06/24/24

ENHYPEN - UNTOLD Concept Cinema Premiere 24/06/22 [DANIELA GONZALEZ PEREZ]

ENHYPEN - UNTOLD Concept Cinema Premiere 24/06/22

NAYEON [NA] second EP press conference 06/13/24 [DANIELA GONZALEZ PEREZ]

NAYEON [NA] second EP press conference 06/13/24

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