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When Mark Lee confirmed his departure from NCT after a decade, the response was unlike anything K-pop has seen before. Within 24 hours, his handwritten letter had accumulated millions of likes, shares, and comments – but what stood out wasn't the numbers

Mark Lee Has Left NCT – And The Response is Unlike Any Other

This week's K-pop releases have something for everyone

Comeback Corner: HYO, TWS, YUNA & More

Just under a month after his departure from ENHYPEN, Lee Hee-seung has a new identity

HEESEUNG Is Now EVAN – BELIFT LAB Officially Launches His Solo Career

In February, ITZY performed an updated version of their 2020 B-side "THAT'S A NO NO" on tour – and within weeks, a six-year-old deep cut had become a TikTok challenge, climbed the Korean charts, and landed the group a special MCountdown stage

ITZY’s “THAT’S A NO NO” And The Power of Virality 

ENHYPEN have announced BLOOD SAGA, a world tour spanning 21 cities across five continents — one of the most ambitious routings of their career

ENHYPEN Announce BLOOD SAGA 2026-27 World Tour

Every year in K-pop is noisy, but 2025 moved with a different kind of momentum — not one explosive moment, but a string of shifts that quietly pushed the industry into new territory

Key Shifts That Defined K-pop in 2025

There’s a particular kind of magic that lives on the “other” side of a tracklist. Title tracks carry the pressure: charts, playlists, choreo, campaign concepts, all the decisions that have to make sense in a three-minute window

Beyond the Single: The 2025 Deep Cuts That Hit the Deepest

Boy groups didn’t just course-correct in 2025 — they recalibrated entirely. The year wasn’t driven by scale, noise, or theatrics, but by intention: songs that felt sharper, hungrier, more self-aware

The 2025 Boy Group Round-up

More than anything, 2025 made it impossible to deny that girl groups are still the engine of K-pop’s most inventive sounds

The 2025 Girl Group Round-up

Meaningful Stone has never been the kind of artist who chases volume. Her work tends to move in ripples rather than shocks, unfolding slowly until you realise the emotional weight is already sitting with you

Meaningful Stone releases "Angel drop live"

The thing about K-pop debuts is that they never arrive in a vacuum. They drop into a landscape that’s already hyper-competitive, and constantly shifting shape in the eye of global expectations. The stakes have never been higher

Rookies to Remember: The Class of 2025

Krystal Steps Back In With “Solitary”

Handong Steps Into the “Gray Zone” With a Dark, Magnetic Solo Debut

Europe has been waiting for ONEW for a long time. As the main vocalist of SHINee – a group that only made a brief London stop in 2011 before disappearing from the region’s live circuit – he’s been largely absent from European stages

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Key Shifts That Defined K-pop in 2025

Beyond the Single: The 2025 Deep Cuts That Hit the Deepest

The 2025 Boy Group Round-up

The 2025 Girl Group Round-up

Meaningful Stone releases "Angel drop live"

Rookies to Remember: The Class of 2025

Krystal Steps Back In With “Solitary”

Handong Steps Into the “Gray Zone” With a Dark, Magnetic Solo Debut

ONEW, Live in London: A Night Carried By Voice, Instinct And Star Power

Bryan Chase releases new 3-track EP GRANTED

HUTA announces first-ever solo Europe tour for February 2026

VVUP Make Their Case as a Global Rookie to Watch on “VVON”

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