HYBE, the South Korean entertainment company behind K-pop megastars BTS, has been included on TIME Magazine‘s ‘100 Most Influential Companies of 2021’ list.Formerly known as Big Hit Entertainment, HYBE is one of only two South Korean companies to make it onto the TIME Magazine list, the other being Samsung.
The publication noted that the once “underdog” entertainment company had “South Korea’s biggest public listing in three years”, attributing the organisation’s success to its creation of a “BTS-fueled empire”.TIME also likened HYBE to global entertainment conglomerate Disney, stating that it “looks at each of its acts as intellectual property to be developed into a universe of fan-friendly experiences and products”.
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