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KEYVITUP is a five-member boy group under iNKODE, formed through the agency’s INTHE X Project. The lineup—Sena, Hyunmin, Taehwan, Rukia, and Jaein—was introduced step by step through pre-debut content, building anticipation around a team designed with a strong performance focus and a clear concept from the start. As part of a dual-group rollout, KEYVITUP was positioned with a trendy and dynamic identity, contrasting with its counterpart group. This concept highlights a more energetic and performance-driven style, setting the tone for their music and overall image even before debut. They are set to make their debut with the self-titled EP KEYVITUP, marking the official beginning of their activities. With pre-debut exposure, international stage appearances, and a defined concept, the group enters the scene with momentum and a clear direction moving forward.

KEYVITUP

Para nuestra última portada digital, nos sentamos con HYUNMIN, TAEHWAN, SENA, JAEIN y RUKIA para hablar sobre su debut, cómo encontraron su sonido, escribir y dar forma a su propia música, la química que los une y hacia dónde quieren llevar a KEYVITUP a continuación

KEYVITUP - La portada digital de KPOPWORLD

KickFlip is a seven-member boy group under JYP Entertainment, consisting of Kyehoon, Amaru, Donghwa, Juwang, Minje, Keiju, and Donghyeon. The group was formed through the SBS audition program Loud and debuted in 2025. The group&#x27;s identity connects JYP&#x27;s idol training system with a more youthful, agile performance image. Because several members were already known from a survival-show context, KickFlip&#x27;s debut carried built-in curiosity around how the lineup would translate from trainee competition to a working group. The fandom is known as WeFlip. KickFlip is still early in its career, with its public identity centered on formation, lineup, and debut positioning rather than a long-established legacy.

KickFlip

KickFlip están listos para dar inicio a un nuevo capítulo. Antes de su primera gira mundial en 2027, las rookies de JYP Entertainment se sientan con KPOPWORLD para hablar de su nuevo álbum KICK OFF THE WALL Pt. 1

KickFlip habla sobre KICK OFF THE WALL Pt. 1 antes de su primera gira mundial

CLOSE YOUR EYES (also shortened as CYE) is a seven-member boy group under UNCORE. They were formed through JTBC&#x27;s survival show PROJECT7. They made their debut on April 2, 2025, with the mini album &quot;Enternalt&quot;. PROJECT7 started airing on October 18, 2024, and the finale was broadcast live on December 27, 2024, revealing the group name, CLOSE YOUR EYES, and the seven winners, in order: Ma Jingxiang, Kenshin, Jeon Minwook, Seo Kyoungbae, Song Seungho, Jang Yeojun, and Kim Sungmin. Before joining PROJECT7, Jeon Minwook had already debuted as a member of the boy group BAE173 and the project group A-SIX. Additionally, Ma Jingxiang was a contestant on Boys Planet, while Jang Yeojun also participated in Boys Planet and was a contestant on Wild Idol.

CLOSE YOUR EYES

Nos habla sobre el proceso de escritura detrás del tema de cierre del álbum, cómo ha crecido desde su debut y qué lo impulsa a seguir llegando más lejos

Conoce al miembro: una entrevista con SEO KYOUNGBAE de CLOSE YOUR EYES: siempre escalando más alto

Habla sobre descubrir la bossa nova por primera vez, lo que cambió para él al colaborar con un artista invitado y en qué momento se siente más conectado con el resto del grupo

Conoce al miembro: Una entrevista con KENSHIN de CLOSE YOUR EYES – El conector juguetón

Nuestra conversación aborda la vulnerabilidad en el estudio, los nervios que ha ido superando desde sus primeros días y lo que espera que CLOSER vea de forma distinta en esta era

Conoce al miembro: Una entrevista con SONG SEUNGHO de CLOSE YOUR EYES – La chispa constante

Stray Kids is an eight-member boy group under JYP Entertainment, consisting of Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin, and I.N. The group was introduced through the 2017 survival program Stray Kids and officially debuted in March 2018 with I Am Not, following the pre-debut release &quot;Hellevator.&quot; Former member Kim Woojin left in 2019. The group&#x27;s identity is unusually tied to self-production. Before debut, Bang Chan had already gathered the members around a team-first concept, and the production trio 3RACHA -- Bang Chan, Changbin, and Han -- became the engine behind much of Stray Kids&#x27; sound. That gave the group a different center of gravity from many idol acts: the music often felt like it came from inside the team rather than being assigned to them. Musically, Stray Kids are known for dense rap writing, aggressive electronic textures, sudden rhythmic switches, and choruses built for performance impact. &quot;God&#x27;s Menu,&quot; &quot;Back Door,&quot; &quot;Thunderous,&quot; &quot;Maniac,&quot; and &quot;S-Class&quot; made their style easy to identify: noisy in the intentional sense, but organized around hooks, slogans, and choreography that fans could immediately hold onto. Their lyrics often return to pressure, self-definition, ambition, and the awkward process of growing into confidence. The members&#x27; contrast is a major part of the group&#x27;s appeal. Bang Chan anchors the team as leader and producer; Changbin and Han give the rap line speed and personality; Lee Know, Hyunjin, and Felix shape the performance image; Seungmin and I.N bring clearer melodic balance. Rather than smoothing those differences out, Stray Kids usually lean into them, making their songs feel crowded, restless, and unmistakably theirs. Stray Kids became one of the defining global boy groups of the fourth generation, with a fandom known as STAY and major touring success across Asia, North America, Europe, and beyond. Their rise helped prove that a self-producing idol group could scale internationally while keeping a specific sonic fingerprint. Even when the group experiments with genre or language, the core idea remains stable: Stray Kids make high-impact pop out of tension, noise, teamwork, and control.

Stray Kids

Felix de Stray Kids encabeza la campaña ‘Hanbok Wave’ de Corea para 2026: el primer no actor elegido desde 2022, y una apuesta con peso por su base de fans global, muy inclinada a la Gen Z

Felix de Stray Kids se une a la ‘Hanbok Wave’ global de Corea

Los Grammys han creado una nueva categoría de Best Asian Pop Music Performance, pero hay una trampa. Los nominados deben hacer un “uso significativo” de un idioma asiático, lo que probablemente dejará fuera a gran parte del K-pop actual

Grammy Awards Revelan la nueva categoría ‘Asian Pop’

Un cantante estadounidense de 18 años ha hecho una versión de una balada coreana de 1999, y los oyentes coreanos se lo están agradeciendo. “Even If” de Julian Lerner reimagina “If Only I Had You” como dance-pop, y la respuesta ha sido abrumadoramente cálida en una cultura en la que la influencia muchas veces ha fluido en la dirección opuesta

La versión de Julian Lerner muestra hasta qué punto se ha extendido la influencia de la música coreana

FIFTY FIFTY is a 5-member South Korean girl group under ATTRAKT, currently consisting of: Keena, Chanelle Moon, Yewon, Hana, and Athena. They debuted on November 18, 2022, with the mini album The Fifty. On June 28, 2023, all original members officially filed a lawsuit against ATTRAKT. On October 23, 2023 it was announced that Saena, Sio and Aran‘s exclusive contracts with ATTRAKT were terminated. On November 2, 2023 ATTRAKT announced that the group’s remaining member Keena will be joined by three new members. On August 8, 2024, four new members were announced, including Chanelle Moon, Yewon, Hana, and another mystery member, who was later revealed to be Athena. Along with that, the group&#x27;s fandom name changed from &quot;Hunnies&quot; to &quot;TWENY&quot;. Soon after, they pre-released ‘Starry Night‘ on August 30, 2024, and made their comeback with the new lineup on September 20, 2024, with the mini-album Love Tune.

FIFTY FIFTY

En su cuarto EP, Imperfect-I'mperfect, FIFTY FIFTY se adentran en nuevos territorios sonoros: electrónica cyberpunk, hip-hop onírico, pop eufórico, todo mientras transmiten un mensaje muy cercano: está bien ser imperfecto. Está bien no estar bien

FIFTY FIFTY: La portada digital de KPOPWORLD

Athena, de FIFTY FIFTY, ha sido nombrada nueva embajadora de T1 VALORANT, y su credibilidad ya estaba ahí. Con rango Immortal, uno de los más altos del juego

FIFTY FIFTY’s Athena es nombrada embajadora de T1 VALORANT

TOMORROW X TOGETHER, often shortened to TXT, is a five-member boy group under BIGHIT MUSIC. The group consists of Soobin, Yeonjun, Beomgyu, Taehyun, and Huening Kai. They debuted in March 2019 with The Dream Chapter: Star, becoming BigHit&#x27;s first boy group after BTS and immediately attracting heavy attention. TXT&#x27;s early identity centered on youth, friendship, imagination, and the strange emotional weather of growing up. Instead of debuting with a hard-edged performance image, they leaned into brightness, fantasy, and vulnerability on songs such as &quot;Crown,&quot; &quot;Run Away,&quot; and &quot;Blue Hour.&quot; That made the group feel distinct within fourth-generation boy-group trends, especially because their storytelling often treated adolescence as magical, confusing, and a little unstable. As their catalog developed, TXT added sharper pop-rock, emo, and dance influences through songs like &quot;0X1=LOVESONG,&quot; &quot;LO$ER=LOVER,&quot; &quot;Sugar Rush Ride,&quot; and &quot;Chasing That Feeling.&quot; The members&#x27; strengths map cleanly onto that evolution: Soobin&#x27;s calm leadership, Yeonjun&#x27;s performance charisma, Beomgyu&#x27;s color, Taehyun&#x27;s vocal focus, and Huening Kai&#x27;s bright tone all help the group move between softness and intensity. TXT&#x27;s fandom is known as MOA, short for Moments of Alwaysness. The group&#x27;s significance is tied to how carefully they built a coming-of-age identity across albums, videos, and performances. Rather than defining themselves through a single sound, TXT became a group about transition itself: childhood into adulthood, fantasy into reality, and polished idol pop into something more emotionally restless.

TOMORROW X TOGETHER

YEONJUN ha anunciado su segundo álbum en solitario, NO LABELS: PART 02, que llegará el 10 de julio. La continuación de NO LABELS: PART 01 — que debutó en el puesto No. 10 del Billboard 200 — llega ocho meses después, y por lo que se ve en el video del anuncio, retoma exactamente donde quedó el anterior.

YEONJUN de TXT anuncia su segundo álbum en solitario NO LABELS: PART 02

El gobierno de Corea está impulsando la próxima ola del K-pop. La nueva iniciativa del Ministerio de Cultura, 'Support for Global Leap', destinará hasta 300 millones de won al año a diez pequeñas y medianas agencias, con fondos lo suficientemente flexibles como para usarse en marketing, producción y eventos en vivo.

El Ministerio de Cultura de Corea lanza una iniciativa para ayudar a las pequeñas agencias de K-pop

Tres historias de esta semana apuntan todas en la misma dirección. HYBE pone a LE SSERAFIM, ILLIT y KATSEYE en una sola canción en inglés — y la jugada dice más sobre la estrategia del sello que sobre la canción

La semana pasada en K-pop, interpretada (8 - 12 de junio de 2026)

from20 ha ido abriendo espacio para contenidos más maduros en el K-pop desde su debut en solitario, y su segundo álbum de estudio, 'Rated R', parece dispuesto a llevar eso aún más lejos. A la venta el 26 de junio, el álbum llega tras el single revelación del verano pasado, "EYE CANDY"

from20 lanzará su 2.º álbum de estudio, ‘Rated R’

HAN es ahora el último miembro de Stray Kids en convertirse en embajador de marca, completando un conjunto que abarca Versace, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Burberry y más. El anuncio de Tod’s esta semana lo sitúa en la Milan Fashion Week el 21 de junio

HAN de Stray Kids es anunciado como embajador de marca de Tod’s

K-pop construyó su alcance global sobre el fancam. Ahora, mientras Harry Styles, Phoebe Bridgers y otros impulsan conciertos sin teléfonos, la pregunta es si K-pop piensa seguirles el paso. La gira &lt;PUT YOUR PHONE DOWN&gt; de CORTIS — agotada

Deja el teléfono: K-pop y el concierto sin teléfonos

La FIFA World Cup 2026 arrancó anoche, y el K-pop estuvo allí desde la primera nota. EJAE interpretó el himno oficial en la ceremonia inaugural, LISA encabezará un show en el SoFi Stadium este fin de semana, JIHYO participa en un tercer himno y BTS cerrarán el torneo en MetLife en julio. En 2022, un artista coreano apareció en un solo himno de la World Cup

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