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 ...

An individual fined by court for posting derogatory comments against PLAVE to pay 100,000 KRW to each member, highlighting ...

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.