BTS‘s Jin was recently discharged from the military, and he decided to do a special hug event as a part of 2024 FESTA, which was for 1000 lucky fans. Unfortunately, …
Read More »NewJeans & aespa collab’d at SME & HYBE, Karina gave Minji a spy task to perform, and people are heated
When the Bang Si Hyuk messages about crushing aespa were dramatically revealed, it mostly just made obvious to every reasonable person what goes on in K-pop: competition. So reasonable people …
Read More »HYBE applies to restrict access to trial records from Min Hee Jin injunction + a brief rant on bias
In a bit of minor news for the HYBE/ADOR conflict, it was reported that HYBE applied for a restriction on trial records access for their injunction case with Min Hee …
Read More »‘Music Bank’ interaction between NewJeans & LE SSERAFIM’s Eunchae makes I-netizens very upset for some reason
Netizens everywhere are scrutinizing the moves of everybody associated with the HYBE/ADOR mess, leading to honestly rather insane conspiracy theories on the Korean side of things about groups like LE …
Read More »OnlyOneOf’s Rie speaks out about being kissed by fans without permission while on tour
OnlyOneOf member Rie recently spoke out about fans kissing him without permission, specifically about event that happened around a month ago, as apart of their ongoing world tour. Rie: lyOns …
Read More »Shinhwa fans revealed to be terrorizing Andy’s wife and actress Seo Yoon Ah
A lot of Shinhwa fans are likely at least in their mid-30s already, but unfortunately at least a couple are still mentally teenagers, as they have made the news twice …
Read More »aespa’s Karina and Lee Jae Wook have broken up, reportedly due to malicious comments and disappointing fans
It was only five weeks ago that the relationship between aespa’s Karina and actor Lee Jae Wook was made public and confirmed. Given that they had reportedly only just started …
Read More »SMILE-UP’s Higashiyama Noriyuki says there were 2 abusers other than Johnny Kitagawa + follow-up documentary coming
BBC reporter Mobeen Azhar is doing a follow-up to his documentary on the Johnny Kitagawa sexual abuse case from last year, Predator: The Secret Scandal Of J-Pop. In an article …
Read More »Bullet Points: Arrest made in Lee Sun Gyun case, Song Ji Eun’s marriage, Krystal & Yves sign, NINE.i’s legal dispute, a deepfake fancall, quick disbandments, more
Lots of news for this edition because it was a bizarrely busy time in terms of company movement and disbandment. ====== NINE.i (except EDEN) are in a legal dispute with …
Read More »aespa’s Karina apologizes to fans for … uh, dating + fandom protest trucks and merch ditching
It was revealed by Dispatch last week that aespa member Karina and actor Lee Jae Wook were in a relationship (for only about a month), and since then things haven’t …
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