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BTS are bringing their 'ARIRANG' world tour home. On 13 June – their debut anniversary – the group will perform at Busan Asiad Main Stadium for the first time since October 2022

BTS Bring 'ARIRANG' Home to Busan With Global Cinema Broadcast on Anniversary Date

SM Entertainment and Samsung TV Plus are making K-pop concerts free to watch at home – no ticket, no flight required

SM's Monthly Concert Series Is Closing The Distance

KATSEYE have swept the AMAs – New Artist of the Year, Breakthrough Pop Artist and Best Music Video for "Gnarly" – and every single date on the WILDWORLD TOUR has sold out. All 31 of them

KATSEYE Sweep AMAs and Sell Out 31-Date Arena Tour Within 48 Hours

BTS swept the 2026 American Music Awards – Artist of the Year, Song of the Summer for "SWIM," and Best Male K-Pop Artist – their first AMA appearance in five years and their second time taking the night's top prize

BTS Take Three at the 2026 AMAs, Including Artist of the Year

HYBE's new girl group label ABD has made its first public move, dropping six short films that offer an early glimpse at members of its upcoming debut group

HYBE's ABD Makes Its First Move: Short Films, a Playful Website, and a Glimpse of What's Coming

OnlyOneOf Members KB, JI SUNG and NINE Reunite as New Trio QQQ with Ktown4u

ZICO Releases New ‘DUET’ with YOASOBI’s Lilas (ikura)

Rookie years are brutal. That isn’t new, but the margins feel even tighter now. The fifth generation has arrived into an ecosystem where attention is scattered and the industry’s bar for “readiness” has risen, while fans’ patience has shortened

Early Sparks, Big Futures: The Rookie Acts Lighting Up 2026

There’s always been crossover between fashion and K-pop, but 2025 made it impossible to pretend the relationship is anything but structural now

The Fashion Moments That Defined K-pop in 2025

Some years in K-pop move in a straight line. 2025 wasn’t one of them. This was the year the industry zig-zagged so sharply that even seasoned fans couldn’t pretend they saw any of it coming

The Biggest K-Surprises of 2025

K-pop loves a solo moment, but it doesn’t always love a solo career. That’s the quiet truth running under 2025: working alone, in this industry, is harder than people admit

The Soloists Who Ruled 2025

In theory, a mini-album should be the easiest format in the world to get right. Four to six tracks, no need to build a whole mythology, enough room to test an idea without exhausting it

The Beauty of Small Things: 2025’s Mini-Albums That Hit Hard

Chuu Announces Debut Studio Album ‘XO, My Cyberlove,’ Out January 7

ENHYPEN Announce 7th Mini Album ‘THE SIN : VANISH’, Set for January 2026 Release

Trying to predict what K-pop will look like in 2026 feels a bit like trying to sketch a moving target. Nothing sits still long enough. But, that might change next year. Or at least, the pieces are lining up in a way that makes it feel possible

2026 Forecast: The Year K-pop Re-Enters the Global Conversation on Its Own Terms

Although K-pop dominates the export narrative, Korea's music ecosystem is far bigger, stranger and more rewarding than the lanes most listeners stop at

2025’s Essential Korean Music That Isn’t K-Pop

Within the world of K-pop, it can be difficult to parse through the heavy production and polished vocals to the raw human emotions underneath

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