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.

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.

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 ...

Now that we’re about halfway through the 2025 calendar, it also seemed like a good time to look back on the year so far in pop stardom — who’s excelled, who’s disappointed, who’s been ...

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 ...

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.

South Korean pop star Choi Sung-bong, who was exposed for running a viral cancer scam, has died of apparent suicide at age 33. Police discovered the singer dead at his home in Seoul’s Yeoksam ...