South Korea’s Big 4 entertainment companies — HYBE, SM Entertainment, JYP Entertainment, YG Entertainment — have announced that they’re joining hands with the goal of creating a global music festival. …
Read More »Bullet Points: 4Minute’s Gayoon returns as creative director, SME & WME exodus, futures of DKZ, AB6IX, and SECRET NUMBER, more
Lot of movement on the company front, lot of marriage/birth news, and a lot of quasi or full disbandments. But first, let’s start light. LIGHTSUM‘s Chowon, Hina, Juhyeon, and Yujeong …
Read More »Mark, seemingly a member of every NCT unit, shockingly leaves NCT & SM Entertainment with heartfelt letter
Well this has been a year for surprising departures so far, and the latest is NCT member Mark having left both the group and SM Entertainment, though on seemingly much …
Read More »BoA set to continue on in some capacity after establishing BApal Entertainment
After the announcement that BoA‘s 25 years with SM Entertainment had come to an end back in January, what she was going to do moving forward was a question, and …
Read More »Taemin leaves embattled BPM Entertainment, revealed to have paid staff himself after company couldn’t
It was recently announced that Taemin of SHINee parted ways with embattled company Big Planet Made Entertainment today. We would like to inform you that our exclusive contract with Taemin …
Read More »Kim Junsu performs again on M Countdown after 17 years away due to blacklisting
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 »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 »SM Entertainment is feeding their whole music catalog into AI, whose involvement will surely stop at an advisory role
In timing that’s a hell of a coincidence considering the last post, SM Entertainment CEO Jang Cheol Hyuk recently revealed … no, bragged about how for “SM 3.0” they fed …
Read More »BoA leaves SM Entertainment after 25 years, marking the end of an era at the company
In news that has felt like it was coming but not one that I could ever truly believe would happen, BoA and SM Entertainment have parted ways after 25 years. …
Read More »An oyster was somehow what crossed the line for IRENE & SEULGI’s BDSM GL comeback with ‘TILT’
Okay, so long story short, Red Velvet sub-unit IRENE & SEULGI are returning soon with TILT on May 26, and while there was never any doubt their concept was queer-coded, …
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