Americans have a checkered history of dismissing things they don’t understand — the metric system, universal healthcare, and of course, K- pop. Until the last few years, the colorful world of Korean ...

It's official: K-pop is taking over the world! In this age of entertainment, it's become obvious that South Korea has become one of the biggest producers of media, giving the world everything from TV ...

It's Netflix's biggest movie of all time, with 314 million views and counting. Its soundtrack hit No. 1 on Billboard's album chart and is the first to ever have four songs hit the top 10 of the ...

Over the past 15 years, K-pop went from being a regional phenomenon to a cornerstone of the global pop mainstream. The term describes more than a genre—it’s a culture, a method of doing business, and, ...

In recent years, you can’t look at a Billboard chart, the Hot 100 or the 200 without seeing a K-pop artist. It wasn’t always this way. The genre was still in its infancy when the young five-member ...

Even many superfans will tell you that K-pop's pageantry has often masked a troubled business model, where impressionable young trainees commit to a life run entirely by their agencies. Signing on the ...

In South Korea, the number of K-pop trainees who quit after joining an agency was 34.4 per cent in 2022, up 3.4 percentage ...