KPOPWORLD #6 (Yves)

KPOPWORLD #6 (KEYVITUP X VAYONN)

KPOPWORLD #5

KPOPWORLD #4

Choi Yu Ree는 Stay 시리즈의 마지막 장인 Stay: Two를 통해, 섬세한 송라이팅으로 일상 속에서 형태를 만들어가는 취약함, 사랑, 두려움, 그리고 조용한 감정들을 이야기한다.

Choi Yu Ree는 자신을 있는 그대로 지키고 있다

LOONA (이달의 소녀, &quot;Girl of the Month&quot;) is a girl group formed by Blockberry Creative with one of the most ambitious pre-debut projects in K-pop history. From 2016 to 2018, each of the twelve members was individually introduced with her own solo single, music video, and lore before the full group debuted in August 2018. This elaborate rollout created an intricate &quot;LOONAVERSE&quot; mythology that captivated fans who dissected every visual clue and narrative connection. LOONA&#x27;s music spans a remarkable range of styles — from Chuu&#x27;s bubbly &quot;Heart Attack&quot; to the cinematic grandeur of &quot;Butterfly&quot; to the girl-crush energy of &quot;PTT (Paint the Town).&quot; The group gained a uniquely devoted international fandom, Orbits, who turned LOONA into an internet phenomenon long before the group achieved mainstream domestic success. Despite significant company controversies and member departures, LOONA&#x27;s creative ambition and the quality of their discography have ensured their place in K-pop history as one of the most artistically inventive groups of their generation.

LOONA

LOONA에서 솔로 아티스트로의 진화까지, Yves는 2026년 솔직하고 날것 그대로의 대화 속에서 자신의 여정, 창작 정체성, 그리고 성장 뒤에 숨은 어려움에 대해 털어놓는다

Yves의 자아 이미지

K-pop 프로모션 사이클에서 가장 핵심적인 요소가 하나 있다면, 바로 음악방송이고, 그에 따른 음악방송 1위다

음악방송 1위란 정확히 무엇일까 – 그리고 그룹들은 어떻게 1위를 차지할까?

THE BOYZ is an eleven-member boy group formed by Cre.Ker Entertainment (now an independent group), debuting in December 2017. The group gained significant attention for their performance abilities, particularly after their appearance on the Mnet competition show &quot;Road to Kingdom&quot; in 2020, where they won first place with theatrical, visually stunning stages that showcased their storytelling through dance. Their &quot;Road to Kingdom&quot; victory was a turning point, elevating THE BOYZ from a mid-tier group to one of the most respected performance-focused acts in K-pop. Songs like &quot;The Stealer,&quot; &quot;THRILL RIDE,&quot; and &quot;MAVERICK&quot; have highlighted their versatility. THE BOYZ&#x27;s fandom, THE B, has grown steadily, supporting the group through sold-out concerts and strong album sales. The group is widely regarded as having some of the best synchronized choreography and stage presence in the industry. On March 19, 2026, nine members of The Boyz filed for the termination of their exclusive contracts with One Hundred Label, citing issues including unpaid settlements and a breakdown of trust. The agency disputed the claims and rejected the termination, resulting in a legal dispute between the parties. As of April 23, 2026, the court ruled in favor of the nine members, granting the boys an injunction to end the validity of their contracts. The members who were involved are officially free from their ties with One Hundred Label, however the last member still remains as of right now. The group is currently continuing forward as an independent group, being one of the most successful of their peers to make such move.

THE BOYZ

THE BOYZ와 함께한 거의 10년에 가까운 시간 끝에, KEVIN MOON은 데뷔 프로젝트 FREECHILD로 솔로 아티스트로서 새로운 챕터를 열고 있다

KEVIN MOON 인터뷰 – 새장 속 새, 비로소 날아오르다

SM 창립자 Lee Soo-man의 복귀로 주목받고 있는 A2O Entertainment가 2026년 10월 12일 보이그룹과 걸그룹을 동시에 데뷔시킨다고 발표했다.

Lee Soo-man의 A2O Entertainment, 보이그룹과 걸그룹 동시 데뷔 예고

WJSN의 Seola와 Eunseo가 그룹 데뷔 10주년을 맞은 올해, Starship Entertainment와의 전속 계약을 공식적으로 종료했다

WJSN의 Seola와 Eunseo, Starship Entertainment와 결별

BTS, also known as the Bangtan Boys, is a South Korean boy band formed by Big Hit Music that debuted on June 12, 2013, with the single album 2 Cool 4 Skool. Its seven members are RM (leader), Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook, with RM, Suga, and J-Hope contributing heavily to songwriting and production. The name stands for Bangtan Sonyeondan (&ldquo;Bulletproof Boy Scouts&rdquo;), reflecting a concept of resisting the pressures placed on young people.
The group broke through in 2015 with &ldquo;I Need U&rdquo; and reached a global audience with Wings and the Love Yourself series, whose Love Yourself: Tear became the first album by a Korean act to top the Billboard 200 in 2018. &ldquo;Dynamite,&rdquo; &ldquo;Butter,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Permission to Dance&rdquo; each hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. BTS is among the best-selling artists in South Korean history and partnered with UNICEF on the Love Myself campaign. Full-group activities paused from 2022 to 2025 for the members&rsquo; mandatory military service, completed when Suga was discharged in June 2025. Their tenth studio album, ARIRANG, arrived on March 20, 2026, followed by the Arirang World Tour beginning that April.

Jimin의 "Like Crazy"가 Spotify에서 필터링 기준 10억 스트리밍을 달성한 최초의 완전 한국어 곡이 됐다

BTS’ Jimin, “Like Crazy”로 한국어 스트리밍 기록 세워

TOMORROW X TOGETHER, usually shortened to TXT, is a five-member boy group under BIGHIT MUSIC &mdash; Soobin, Yeonjun, Beomgyu, Taehyun, and Huening Kai. They debuted in March 2019 with The Dream Chapter: Star, arriving as BigHit&rsquo;s first boy group after BTS and drawing immediate attention. Their early identity centered on youth, friendship, imagination, and the odd emotional weather of growing up. Rather than opening with a hard-edged performance image, they leaned into brightness, fantasy, and vulnerability on &ldquo;Crown,&rdquo; &ldquo;Run Away,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Blue Hour&rdquo; &mdash; a stance that set them apart within fourth-generation boy-group trends, largely because their storytelling treated adolescence as magical, confusing, and faintly unstable. As the catalog grew, they folded in sharper pop-rock, emo, and dance influences through &ldquo;0X1=LOVESONG,&rdquo; &ldquo;LO$ER=LOVER,&rdquo; &ldquo;Sugar Rush Ride,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Chasing That Feeling.&rdquo; The members&rsquo; strengths track that evolution closely: Soobin&rsquo;s steady leadership, Yeonjun&rsquo;s performance charisma, Beomgyu&rsquo;s color, Taehyun&rsquo;s vocal precision, and Huening Kai&rsquo;s bright tone let the group move between softness and intensity. Their fandom is MOA, short for Moments of Alwaysness. What makes TXT significant is how deliberately they built a coming-of-age identity across albums, videos, and stages. Instead of defining themselves by a single sound, they became a group about transition itself &mdash; childhood into adulthood, fantasy into reality, polished idol pop into something more emotionally restless.

TOMORROW X TOGETHER

Dolce &amp; Gabbana가 SOOBIN을 새로운 앰배서더로 발표했을 때, 가장 먼저 내세운 건 패션이 아니라 스킨케어였다. 기대되는 패션 화보와 함께, 그의 데뷔 비주얼은 글래스 스킨과 제품을 전면에 내세운다. 이는 우연한 선택이 아니다

SOOBIN, Dolce & Gabbana와 커져가는 남성 K-Beauty의 힘

TWICE is a nine-member girl group formed by JYP Entertainment through the survival show Sixteen. The lineup consists of Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung, and Tzuyu, with members from South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. They debuted in October 2015 with &quot;Like Ooh-Ahh,&quot; introducing the bright, kinetic identity that would make them one of the central girl groups of K-pop&#x27;s third generation. The group&#x27;s early rise was built on an unusually clear pop formula: big choruses, memorable gestures, colorful styling, and personalities that were easy for viewers to distinguish. A run led by &quot;Cheer Up&quot; and &quot;TT&quot; turned TWICE into a national-level phenomenon in Korea, while their Japanese members helped the group cross naturally into Japan&#x27;s idol and pop markets. Rather than relying on a single vocal or dance center, TWICE worked because the lineup felt balanced as a whole: playful, approachable, and tightly rehearsed. As the members grew older, TWICE gradually expanded beyond the cute and school-age image attached to their first hits. The move from &quot;Fancy&quot; through &quot;I Can&#x27;t Stop Me&quot; kept the group&#x27;s melodic accessibility while bringing in sleeker dance-pop, disco, synth-pop, and more mature performance styling. That evolution mattered because it let TWICE remain recognizable without staying frozen in their debut concept. TWICE also became one of the clearest examples of a K-pop girl group building a long international career without losing its domestic base. Their Korean and Japanese discographies developed side by side, and later global touring brought the group to arenas and stadiums far beyond East Asia. The fandom is known as ONCE, a name that matches the group&#x27;s long-running emphasis on mutual loyalty between the members and their audience. Their legacy is not only commercial. TWICE helped define what a modern large girl group could be: member-driven, visually bright, musically immediate, and durable enough to age into a second phase. They normalized the idea that a top K-pop girl group could keep all members active across many years, shift concepts without abandoning its core warmth, and still feel like a complete team even as individual members developed solo work, acting, modeling, and unit activities.

TWICE

파워풀한 걸그룹 TWICE가 7월에 열린 3회 공연에서 선보인 곡들의 라이브 버전을 담은 새로운 스페셜 바이닐 &lt;THIS IS FOR&gt; WORLD TOUR FINALE in SEOUL - LIVE 발매를 발표했다

TWICE, <THIS IS FOR> 월드 투어 피날레 라이브 바이닐 발매

PLAVE is a virtual boy group under VLAST. It consists of five members: Yejun, Noah, Bamby, Eunho, and Hamin. The group uses motion capture technology for their idol activities. They were first introduced through YouTube and Twitch streams starting in September 2022. The group officially debuted on March 12, 2023, with the single album &quot;Asterum&quot;. In 2024, they joined the Melon Billion Club after reaching one billion cumulative streams. This record was achieved in just 494 days since their debut, breaking the previous record and becoming the artist to join the Melon Billion Club in the shortest time since their debut. In 2025, in the first week of the release of their third EP, &quot;Caligo Pt. 1&quot;, they sold one million copies, becoming the first virtual group to achieve this. In mid-June, they made their Japanese debut with the single &quot;Kakurenbo (Hide &amp; Seek)&quot;. It reached one million streams on Melon, making it the first time a Japanese song by a K-pop group had entered Melon&#x27;s &quot;Hall of Fame.&quot;

PLAVE

버추얼 보이그룹 PLAVE가 2026년 10월 12일 디지털 발매 예정인 5번째 미니앨범 HYPERDRIVE의 발매를 발표했다.

매진된 스타디움 콘서트에 이어 PLAVE, 5번째 미니앨범 ‘HYPERDRIVE’ 발매

Matin Kim은 구제 느낌의 니트, 오버사이즈 재킷, 그리고 한눈에 알아볼 수 있는 메탈 로고까지, 럭셔리급 가격대 없이도 K-fashion의 가장 인상적인 룩 중 하나를 꾸준히 구축해왔다

Matin Kim이 어떻게 당신의 최애 아이돌의 최애 패션 브랜드가 됐는가

BIGHIT MUSIC이 2026 Global Audition을 시작했다. 국적이나 지역 제한 없이, 2008년생 이후의 남성이라면 누구나 지원할 수 있으며, 노래, 춤, 프로듀싱 등 자신의 재능을 가장 잘 보여줄 수 있는 어떤 분야로도 지원이 가능하다.

BIGHIT MUSIC, 남성 인재 대상 2026 Global Audition 개최

지난주 K-pop 소식은 어린 시절의 깊은 고통을 털어놓은 이야기부터 흥미로운 새 소식들, 그리고 올해 점점 더 인기를 얻고 있는 걸그룹 중 하나를 기념하는 이야기까지 다양했다

지난주 K-pop, 해석해서 보기 (2026년 9월 7일 - 9월 11일)

aespa is a four-member girl group debuted by SM Entertainment in November 2020, consisting of Karina, Giselle, Winter, and Ningning. The group introduced a concept centered on virtual &quot;ae&quot; counterparts, blending real and digital worlds into an elaborate sci-fi universe often associated with KWANGYA. That metaverse-inspired setup positioned aespa at the intersection of idol pop, technology branding, and SM&#x27;s long-running taste for high-concept worldbuilding. Musically, aespa made a sharp first impression with an aggressive, synth-heavy style that matched the digital concept without depending on it completely. &quot;Black Mamba&quot;, &quot;Next Level&quot; and &quot;Savage&quot; used sudden beat changes, metallic textures, and big vocal climaxes to create a sound that felt more angular than most mainstream girl-group pop. The approach could be polarizing, but it made aespa instantly identifiable. The group&#x27;s later singles showed how flexible that identity could become. &quot;Drama&quot; pushed the cinematic side of aespa, while Supernova turned their electronic edge into something brighter, stranger, and more playful. Karina and Winter often serve as the visual and performance center of the group, Giselle gives the rap sections a casual sharpness, and Ningning brings a vocal power that lets aespa&#x27;s biggest choruses land with real force. aespa’s fandom is known as MY, and the group became one of the key fourth-generation acts by making high-concept idol pop feel commercially central rather than niche. Their importance is tied to that blend: they are an SM vocal group, a performance group, a fashion-forward girl group, and a sci-fi pop project at the same time. Even when the lore becomes less prominent, the idea remains clear: aespa turns futurism into a pop language.

aespa

aespa가 SYNK : COMPLæXITY 월드 투어에서 선보였던 솔로 트랙들을 공개했다. 이제는 팬캠을 짜깁기해 듣지 않아도, 완성도 높은 음원으로 처음부터 끝까지 감상할 수 있다

aespa, 월드 투어 북미 일정 진입과 함께 솔로 트랙 4곡 공개

ATEEZ is an eight-member boy group under KQ Entertainment &mdash; Hongjoong, Seonghwa, Yunho, Yeosang, San, Mingi, Wooyoung, and Jongho &mdash; who debuted in October 2018 with Treasure EP.1: All to Zero, opening a pirate-and-treasure narrative that gave their early work a cinematic frame. What set them apart was performance built on a larger-than-life scale. Without the backing of a major label, they drew attention through sharp facial expression, full-body choreography, live-stage force, and songs engineered to detonate in concert: &ldquo;Wonderland,&rdquo; &ldquo;Answer,&rdquo; &ldquo;Guerrilla,&rdquo; &ldquo;Bouncy,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Crazy Form&rdquo; all share that instinct for big chants, dramatic builds, and choruses written to be shouted back. Their roles reinforce that theatricality &mdash; Hongjoong leads and produces, Mingi anchors the rap line with his low register, Jongho delivers exceptional high notes, and San, Seonghwa, Yunho, Yeosang, and Wooyoung carry much of the performance identity. ATINY, their fandom, is known for fierce international support, the force that lifted a smaller-agency group into a global touring act. ATEEZ matter because they show how far a consistent performance identity can take a group. Loud, dark, playful, or defiant, the core stays theatrical and physical. They turned intensity into a worldview rather than a seasonal concept.

ATEEZ

우리는 ATEEZ Golden Hour : Part 5 CDP 버전 발매를 언박싱하며 더 자세히 살펴봅니다. 이 버전은 2026년 6월 26일 MAKESTAR를 통해 단독 발매된 ATEEZ 테마의 포터블 CD 플레이어를 포함하고 있습니다.

ATEEZ Golden Hour : Part 5 CDP 버전

MONSTA X is a boy group formed through the survival show No.Mercy who debuted under Starship Entertainment in May 2015. Shownu, Minhyuk, Kihyun, Hyungwon, Joohoney, and I.M make up the current lineup, with Wonho a former member, and the group has always been tied to a forceful performance image. Their sound runs muscular &mdash; EDM drops, hip-hop percussion, dark synths, and choruses built to carry heavy choreography. They became one of the most physically commanding performance groups of their generation across a run stretching from the breakthrough drive of "Dramarama" to the sharper drama of "Love Killa," while their vocal line and later English-language releases revealed a smoother R&amp;B and pop register that softened the edges without draining the intensity. They also mattered as a bridge between Korean idol promotion and Western touring: English-language singles, American media appearances, and a large international audience, all without blurring the group's identity. Their fandom, Monbebe, is known for staying loyal through lineup changes, enlistments, solo projects, and long stretches between full-group activity. Their legacy rests on consistency and stamina rather than reinvention. MONSTA X refined one recognizable image &mdash; power, charisma, and emotional loyalty &mdash; instead of rebuilding it every comeback. That became a template for later boy groups aiming to look tough onstage while cultivating a close, fan-centered identity off it.

MONSTA X

MONSTA X의 KIHYUN은 올해 초 2025년의 YOUTH에 이은 두 번째 솔로 EP BORDERLINE로 돌아왔다

KIHYUN: The KPOPWORLD Digital Cover

이번 주 K-pop 하이라이트에는 강렬한 솔로 컴백, 몽환적인 신스팝, 그리고 신인과 베테랑 아티스트 모두가 선보이는 2세대 감성의 향수가 담긴 사운드가 포함됐다&nbsp;

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