The artist who previously called out SM Entertainment for plagiarizing his work for Aespa's "Black Mamba" music video has released a statement concerning the matter.
On Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020, SM Entertainment shared teasers for NCT 2020's upcoming album 'RESONANCE Pt.2' to their social media accounts. While it initially sparked interest, netizens quickly pointed out the uncanny resemblance of the teasers to designer label Sunnei's 2020 campaign. Read more about it here.
On Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, the Korean Brand Research Institute released their brand reputation rankings for boy groups in November. In this month's rankings, BTS has taken the top spot as the most popular boy group. Keep on reading to see who else made the rankings.
NCT U is gaining massive backlash for allegedly culturally appropriating and mocking Indian culture in their latest M! Countdown stage. Specifically, members Taeyong, Shotaro, and Xiaojun are being dragged for their insensitive actions.
South Korea is infamous for having one of the world's strictest beauty standards. In the country, there are very specific features that are considered attractive and even the slightest deviation from it can be considered unattractive. While beauty is subjective, most entertainment agencies select trainees and who gets to debut with those standards in mind. Knowing this, here are the top 10 male visuals in K-pop that have visuals in line with South Korea's strict beauty standards.
NCT 2020 is on a roll! On October 13, Tuesday, NCT's second full-length album, "RESONANCE Pt.1," topped iTunes Album Charts in 32 different countries upon the album's debut.
Pre-orders for NCT 2020's upcoming album "NCT - The 2nd Album RESONANCE Pt.1)", which will be released later today on October 12, have surpassed over one million copies in pre-orders, officially marking NCT as million sellers.
The Korean Business Research Institute released its brand reputation rankings for K-Pop boy groups for the month of September. To determine which boys groups make the list, they analyzed consumer participation, community awareness, and news coverage.
If you're a K-pop fan, then you'll know the industry has produced numerous bangers that fans love. There is always a song that captures your heart and causes you to think that the track was perfect for the group. However, not all songs were made with that artist in mind. Here are 10 iconic K-pop songs that were originally made for other artists.
During the night of October 1, Lucas went live on his Instagram account with fellow WayV and NCT members Hendery and Winwin. The three members were seen jamming to Chinese songs and told fans the would sing for them. However, it appears Lucas had forgotten he was holding his cigarette box in his hand.
Fans on an online community voting website selected which foreign K-pop idol is their favorite. This list contains idols who are foreigners and it does not contain idols who are ethnically Korean but were born outside of South Korea. However, this list does contain idols who are half-Korean.
On September 22, 2020, Starmometer revealed their finalists for the "Sexiest Man In The World 2020" are. These finalists ranked within the top 10 out of 200 official nominees and were selected through netizens' likes and comments. Surprisingly, all 10 of the finalists are ethnically Asian, with six of them being K-pop idols. Want to know which idols made the finals? Keep on reading!
Over the weekend, SM Entertainment announced which seven members will be featuring on the title track for NCT 2020's debut as well as two other tracks. On September 29, Tuesday, they then revealed which members will participate in the other upcoming tracks. Want to know the member combinations? Read on below!