Former TVXQ member Kim Junsu returned recently to major music shows for the first time since 2009 on M Countdown. Perhaps appropriately — as musical theater provided him a stage …
Read More »Min Hee Jin wins ~$18 million stock option lawsuit against HYBE, court mostly accepts her arguments
Back to the legal mess mines with a major update in the NewJeans/Min Hee Jin/ADOR/HYBE case, as courts ruled in favor of Min Hee Jin regarding her put option to …
Read More »SEVENTEEN’s Seungkwan & TXT’s Soobin arguing over KARA’s “Jumping” is the most I’ve related to idols
Both Seungkwan of SEVENTEEN and Soobin of TXT are known for being girl group stans (and K-pop stans, generally), so it was a special treat to see them debating the …
Read More »Covered: UAU (EXO), Lily & Camila (‘Wicked’), CREZL (Gen Hoshino), Andamiro (Lee Hi), Na Go Eun (f(x)), JiU (Han Ye Seul)
Covered, because I enjoy covers. Part of it is because I get to revisit songs from the past that I enjoy (and that’s a lot of K-pop’s appeal to me …
Read More »South Korea revises standard contracts to provide increased protection for K-pop trainees … at least in theory
With idol contract disputes taking up a lot of space in 2025’s biggest K-pop stories — and really, they’ve always been in dispute since I’ve been into K-pop — South …
Read More »IVE’s Gaeul is a ‘Professional Thirst Trapper’
Getting right back to documenting idols wearing amusing shirts in English, we have IVE member Gaeul declaring her status as a “Professional Thirst Trapper” (here) in their ‘CHALLENGERS’ concept film …
Read More »Rundown: Mr.Children, STARGLOW, YOUNG POSSE, I-DLE, WHIB
There’s a bit of a gap in coverage here, and thus this ends up being a short one, but that’s because there was a run of pretty fine but somewhat …
Read More »OMEGA X & IPQ win damages against YouTuber for false tampering allegations, legal victories continue to pile up
All the way back in August of 2023, a YouTuber named In Ji Woong took the unenviable position of contrarian to OMEGA X’s abuse case against SPIRE Entertainment by claiming …
Read More »Bullet Points: Fans get weird with Jay & Yunjin, CL & Lee Hi’s late registration, WM is a mess, Shotaro denies dating Giselle, AI, more
Amazing lead picture. How are LOONA always involved with this iconic/dystopian idol photos? Incredible. Anyway, in fans behaving weirdly/badly, there’s cringe “rizz content” with ENHYPEN‘s Jay and an unhinged fansite …
Read More »Wonyoung’s FOREVER:CHERRY logo created some kind of gooner Rorschach test
IVE‘s Wonyoung has been teasing some kind of project called FOREVER:CHERRY on Instagram, and recently it was reported that she now has the trademarks to “FOREVER:CHERRY”, “포에버:체리”, and a cherry-shaped …
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