Energetic and catchy pop music from South Korea generated more than $5 billion in 2022, with four K-pop albums hitting #1 on the Billboard charts. But there is a dark side to fame as a K-pop idol.

South Korean pop superstar Park Bo Ram died of acute alcohol poisoning, an autopsy has revealed. The 30-year-old singer’s lifeless body was discovered last month at her friend’s home in Seoul ...

A Fictional K-Pop Group Just Bested the World’s Biggest Boy Band YOUR IDOL A U.S. Spotify record long-held by K-pop superstars BTS has been trumped by an unlikely source. Yasmeen Hamadeh ...

Major K-Pop Agency SM Entertainment Holds First-Ever Global Auditions to Form Girl Group 2 minute read The SM Entertainment building in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 10, 2023.

I’ve always been interested in race and ethnicity and Asian Americans. I knew in my gut that K-pop was important, but it was hard to figure out exactly how I could work on it, since I’m a quantitative ...

Speaking exclusively to CNN, one of the biggest-selling K-pop acts, NewJeans, announced that it will perform under its new name for the first time at ComplexCon Hong Kong in March.