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BLACKPINK producer SINXITY has opened up about the safety he feels as a gay person working amid the K-pop industry, saying it’s “safer than in the past”.SINXITY, real name SJ Shin, recently spoke with Billboard in light of the debut of his new girl group, cosmosy. The South Korean music executive broke down the processes behind four-piece’s inception, stylistic concepts and the values that drive his work with cosmosy.During the interview, SINXITY pointed out authentic connection and expression of one’s true self as some of his biggest values.

K-pop girl group BABYMONSTER have released a new music video for their ‘Really Like You’.Today (January 17), the septet unveiled the wholesome visual for their song ‘Really Like You’, taken from their November 2024 studio album ‘Drip’. The track was notably co-written by YG labelmate Mino of the boy band WINNER.Set in a high school, the clip follows the BABYMONSTER members as they daydream, share knowing looks and pen diary entries about a crush.

K-pop boyband WINNER has been booked by Seoul police for allegedly violating South Korea’s Military Service Act.On December 26, the Seoul Mapo police announced that they had booked Song on Monday (December 23) over suspicions that he had violated the Military Service Act. According to News1, his came after the police received a request from South Korea’s Military Manpower Administration to investigate the matter.“We have requested a police investigation into Song Mino for violating the Military Service Act,” commented the Military Manpower Administration per TenAsia.

2NE1 made an appearance at this year’s SBS Gayo Daejeon festival to perform a medley of their biggest hits.On Christmas Day (December 25), South Korean television network SBS held its annual Gayo Daejeon festival, which featured special performances by some of the top K-pop acts. During this year’s show, second-generation girl group 2NE1 took the stage for a powerful performance of some of their most popular tracks.The performance opened with the group singing the chorus of their 2014 single ‘Come Back Home’ offstage, before appearing to perform their debut single ‘Fire’.

TREASURE have announced the dates for their upcoming 2025 ‘Special Moment’ North America tour, featuring concerts in New York, California and more.On December 17, TREASURE released a poster that teased their first-ever North American tour, titled ‘Special Moment’, which will take place in April 2025. As part of the tour, TREASURE will visit four cities across the US, including New York City, Oakland, Los Angeles and more.TREASURE have yet to announce dates, venues and ticketing information for the concerts on their upcoming 2025 ‘Special Moment’ North America tour.

BABYMONSTER have announced their upcoming 2025 ‘Hello Monsters’ world tour, featuring concerts in Seoul, Los Angeles and more.Today (November 18), BABYMONSTER announced that they would be headed on their first world tour, titled ‘Hello Monsters’, in 2025. It will start with a concert in Seoul, South Korea in January.Thereafter, the girl group will also head to the US cities of New Jersey and Los Angeles in February and March, respectively.

aespa, Day6, (G)I-DLE, IU and TWS, who were all nominated for all three grand prize categories: Artist of the Year, Song of the Year and Album of the Year. These are on top of their nominations for other streaming and artist categories.The winners for all awards except for the Millions Top 10 award will be determined by 60 per cent download and streaming counts, 20 per cent judge evaluations and 20 per cent fan votes.Meanwhile, the Millions Top 10 award will be determined by 80 per cent download and streaming numbers and 20 per cent fan votes.Artist of the Year aespa Day6 (G)I-DLE IU Jungkook NewJeans PLAVE RIIZE SEVENTEEN TWSAlbum of the Year aespa – ‘Armageddon’ Day6 – ‘Fourever’ (G)I-DLE – ‘[2]’ ILLIT – ‘Super Real Me’ IU – ‘The Winning’ Jungkook – ‘Golden’ LE SSERAFIM – ‘Easy’ PLAVE – ‘Asterum : 134-1’ Taeyeon – ‘To.

Big Bang rapper and soloist G-Dragon is set to perform at this year’s MAMA Awards.On Monday (October 21), CJ ENM announced the return of G-Dragon at this year’s ceremony. The 2024 MAMA Awards will be held across three days.

BABYMONSTER are set to drop a new single called ‘Drip’, co-written by Big Bang’s G-Dragon for their upcoming first studio album.Today (October 8), YG Entertainment released a new video featuring the agency’s founder and producer Yang Hyun-suk introducing aspects of BABYMONSTER’s upcoming record release. The nine-track studio album will arrive on November 1 and be led by the single ‘Drip’.In the video, Yang shared that ‘Drip’ featured an “unexpected” contributor in its credits.

K-pop quartet BLACKPINK are set to release new music and head on a world tour next year, YG Entertainment has confirmed.Today (September 24), the K-pop agency shared BLACKPINK’s upcoming plans for 2025 in an announcement celebrating a new viewership milestone for the girl group’s music video for ‘How You Like That’.“In 2025, BLACKPINK plans to have a full group comeback and visit their fans on their world tour,” said YG per TenAsia, as translated by Koreaboo. The upcoming record will be their first group release since September 2022, when they dropped the studio album ‘Born Pink’.Last December, YG Entertainment shared that the BLACKPINK members will continue as a group under the agency, but had opted out of additional contracts for their activities as soloists.The BLACKPINK members have spent most of 2024 on solo endeavours, with Jennie, Jisoo and Lisa launching their own entertainment labels.

Big Bang singer Daesung has opened up about performing on stage with bandmates G-Dragon and Taeyang again for the first time in years.Earlier this month, Big Bang’s Taeyang kicked-off his ‘The Light Year’ tour in Seoul, where he invited bandmates Daesung and G-Dragon to perform some of the group’s hits on stage.In a new episode of Daesung’s YouTube show Zip Daesung, the vocalist offered a behind-the-scenes look into the concert and shared his thoughts on their first performance together since December 2017.“It was pure joy,” he said. “The fact that people still remember us and talk about us is just incredible, you know? For a group that’s almost 20 years old, that’s quite an achievement.

TREASURE recently brought out 2NE1‘s CL as a surprise special guest at their recent ‘Reboot’ encore concert in Seoul.TREASURE held a concert at the KSPO Dome in Seoul, South Korea on August 15, which was also the final date of the YG Entertainment boyband’s ‘Reboot’ tour of Asia in May and June. To wrap up the show, they surprised audiences by bringing out labelmate CL of girl group 2NE1.During her surprise appearance, CL performed mash-up of two of her older songs: 2013 solo debut single ‘The Baddest Female’ and the 2014 track ‘MTBD’, from 2NE1’s second studio album ‘Crush’.

HYBE, YG, SM and JYP Entertainment have reportedly been fined by the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) in South Korea for breaches its regulations after their stringent retail policies were investigated.According to TenAsia, he FTC announced on August 11 that it had imposed corrective orders and fines amounting KRW10.5million (approximately £5716.71) on the official retail branches of HYBE, YG, SM and JYP Entertainment: Weverse Company, YG Plus, SM Brand Marketing and JYP Three Sixty, respectively.The companies being subject to FTC’s sanctions all operate the official online retail centres for the K-pop industry’s four biggest players. According to the commission, all four companies were found to have “arbitrarily shortened the period where customers are able to get refunds on idol-related merchandise”, including albums, which it deemed a breach of its regulations.Examples of some violations include SM’s policy of having any product refunded for simple change of mind arrive at its logistics centre within seven business days of its original delivery date, despite the law stating that customers have the right to seven days from the time it was received to decide on a return.Additionally, Weverse, SM and JYP all have a policy where they would not offer compensation for lost items after 30 days from when it was shipped, despite the law permitting monetary claims within three months of purchase, among others.In response to the results of FTC’s investigation, all four companies were quick to conduct voluntary policy correction where appropriate, which allowed their fines to be reduced.

G-Dragon – real name Kwon Ji-yong – has acquired the trademark rights to his stage name from former agency, YG Entertainment.Today (August 2), G-Dragon’s new agency GALAXY Corporation, which he signed to last year, confirmed to South Korean news outlet OSEN that the rapper had been able to acquire his stage name from his former label.“It is true that Kwon Ji-yong has been transferred the trademark rights for ‘G-Dragon’ from YG Entertainment,” a representative from GALAXY Corporation told OSEN, per The Chosun Daily.The latter publication also reported that G-Dragon has also received trademark rights for other names related to the rapper, including the acronym ‘GD’.The move comes months after his label confirmed that G-Dragon would be making his long-awaited comeback “in the second half of this year”. At the time, the agency also said that the K-pop star would also be “carrying out global activities and activities in Japan” as part of his comeback.G-Dragon’s last solo release was his self-titled EP ‘Kwon Ji-yong’ in 2017.

2NE1 singer Sandara Park has opened up about the group’s highly anticipated reunion during a recent appearance on a radio show.2NE1’s Sandara Park was a guest on the July 26 broadcast of SBS POWER FM’s radio show Cultwo Show. During the appearance, which she was asked about her thoughts on the girl group’s newly announced reunion tour, which will kick of in October this year.“I’m so happy to finally be able to proudly share this news with our fans after eight years.

2NE1 have announced the kick-off dates for their upcoming 2024 to 2025 comeback world tour, titled ‘Welcome Back’.Today (July 25), 2NE1 and their agency YG Entertainment announced the first two dates for their upcoming 2024 to 2025 world tour. It comes just days after the girl group revealed that they would be reuniting, eight years after disbanding in 2016.The K-pop quartet will kick off their new world tour over two nights in October at the Olympic Park Olympic Hall in Seoul, South Korea.

Jay Park recently revealed that he was considered for the line-up of veteran K-pop boyband Big Bang.Jay Park recently appeared on the July 19 episode of Big Bang singer Daesung‘s YouTube show. During his appearance, the singer shared that he had been a big fan of the group when he was a trainee in the early-2000s.Daesung then brought up how Park had once been considered for the band’s line-up by YG Entertainment founder Yang Hyun-suk.

BLACKPINK and other YG Entertainment K-pop acts are set to embark on world tours in 2025, the agency has revealed.In a new video, YG Entertainment founder Yang Hyun-suk spoke about the plans the K-pop agency has for 2025. “I can’t say we have specific plans yet, but I think a lot of artists will be active simultaneously,” said Yang, who then teased touring plans for several groups, including BLACKPINK.Speaking specifically about BLACKPINK, the YG Entertainment head revealed that “there will be a highly anticipated comeback from BLACKPINK” in 2025, which will “also be the year [that the group] start their world tour”.Aside from BLACKPINK, Yang also revealed that both BABYMONSTER and TREASURE will “start their world tours” next year.

K-pop girl group BABYMONSTER have unveiled the music video for their new single ‘Forever’.Today (July 1), BABYMONSTER released their digital single ‘Forever’, a pre-release single from their first studio album due out in the fall. At the time of publishing, YG Entertainment has yet to unveil further details for the upcoming record.The new music video for ‘Forever’ opens with the BABYMONSTER members waking up in a luxurious hotel suite to VIP invitation cards.

K-pop group 2NE1 may soon be making a comeback.On June 28, YG Entertainment shared that 2NE1’s CL, Dara, Park Bom and Minzy met with its executive producer Yang Hyun-suk the day prior. According to the agency, they shared a “extremely meaningful” two-hour discussion.“As this was [Yang’s] and the 2NE1 members’ first conversation in eight years, although no concrete plans have been made, Yang – who has particular affection for 2NE1 – listened to the members’ requests and empathised with them,” said YG per Soompi.

2NE1 will meet up with Yang Hyun-suk, the head of their former agency YG Entertainment, amid reunion rumours.Earlier today (June 25), South Korean news outlet OSEN reported that all four members of 2NE1 have set up plans to meet with YG Entertainment founder Yang Hyun-suk. It comes shortly after previous reports that member CL had dinner with Yang prior to the group’s 15th anniversary in May.In response to today’s report, YG Entertainment has confirmed that 2NE1 “are scheduled to meet” with the K-pop agency’s founder.