Former TVXQ member Kim Junsu returned recently to major music shows for the first time since 2009 on M Countdown. Perhaps appropriately — as musical theater provided him a stage …
Read More »Min Hee Jin wins ~$18 million stock option lawsuit against HYBE, court mostly accepts her arguments
Back to the legal mess mines with a major update in the Min Hee Jin/ADOR/HYBE/NewJeans case, as courts ruled in favor of Min Hee Jin regarding her put option to …
Read More »Conspiracy nut claims Utada Hikaru planned Charlie Kirk getting murked, which might outdo the IU theories
In crazy-ass-shit news, remember those people who are convinced IU is some kind of secret operative? Well, apparently there’s a Japanese version now and it involves Utada Hikaru. Yes, a …
Read More »SEVENTEEN’s Seungkwan & TXT’s Soobin arguing over KARA’s “Jumping” is the most I’ve related to idols
Both Seungkwan of SEVENTEEN and Soobin of TXT are known for being girl group stans (and K-pop stans, generally), so it was a special treat to see them debating the …
Read More »Covered: UAU (EXO), Lily & Camila (‘Wicked’), CREZL (Gen Hoshino), Andamiro (Lee Hi), Na Go Eun (f(x)), JiU (Han Ye Seul)
Covered, because I enjoy covers. Part of it is because I get to revisit songs from the past that I enjoy (and that’s a lot of K-pop’s appeal to me …
Read More »South Korea revises standard contracts to provide increased protection for K-pop trainees … at least in theory
With idol contract disputes taking up a lot of space in 2025’s biggest K-pop stories — and really, they’ve always been in dispute since I’ve been into K-pop — South …
Read More »[Review] Dreamcatcher’s Handong makes solo debut with ‘AtsnstA’ EP that provides pleasant surprises from start to finish
2025 gave us our first glimpse of the Dreamcatcher members debuting projects separate from the group, first with the sub-unit UAU and then with DAMI releasing her solo single “Chequered …
Read More »IVE’s Gaeul is a ‘Professional Thirst Trapper’
Getting right back to documenting idols wearing amusing shirts in English, we have IVE member Gaeul declaring her status as a “Professional Thirst Trapper” (here) in their ‘CHALLENGERS’ concept film …
Read More »Rundown: Mr.Children, STARGLOW, YOUNG POSSE, I-DLE, WHIB
There’s a bit of a gap in coverage here, and thus this ends up being a short one, but that’s because there was a run of pretty fine but somewhat …
Read More »OMEGA X & IPQ win damages against YouTuber for false tampering allegations, legal victories continue to pile up
All the way back in August of 2023, a YouTuber named In Ji Woong took the unenviable position of contrarian to OMEGA X’s abuse case against SPIRE Entertainment by claiming …
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