They immediately became friends after sharing their mutual love for Plave. “I don’t care who they are in real life. I don’t want to know, and that’s the basic rule for the fans,” Kwon said.

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Avatars of the virtual K-pop group gain legal protection, marking a shift in recognising digital personas as extensions of ...

Alongside accomplishments by Blackpink’s Jisoo, NewJeans and BTS, stood PLAVE — a boy band whose members’ real-life identities are hidden behind digital avatars, but whose commercial ...

A fan concert is a mixture of a fan meet and greet, which is where artists give talks and play games with fans in attendance with performances of a few of their songs, and a concert, where talk is ...

The case centred on Plave, a five-member boy band whose anime-style avatars exist solely in the virtual realm but are voiced and animated by real-life performers using motion-capture technology.