Counting down to Seventeen: 17 facts to know about the K-pop boy band
Ever wonder why are the band are called Seventeen when they have only 13 members? Read more at straitstimes.com.
The K-pop industry witnesses North Korean artists in a boy band for the first time
Verse, a new K-pop boy band, features members from North Korea, the USA, and Japan. Yu Hyuk, a North Korean defector, ...
How a North Korean went from begging to K-pop
Yu Hyuk was just nine years old when he started begging on the streets of North Hamgyong, one of the poorest provinces in ...
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How BTS Became One of the Most Popular Bands in History
Karina wanted to learn Korean so she could better understand the lyrics of boy bands ... stock price of the band’s parent company fell by nearly thirty per cent, the band member RM issued ...
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Before BTS became the biggest boy band in the world, the K-pop group used to have one more trainee
Suitcase in tow, a fresh-faced Kim found himself smack in the middle of the South Korean capital ... a dancer his age from Gwangju. Two other boys, a gangly 18-year-old and a reserved, soft ...
British band 'New Hope Club' officially disbands… "We will go our separate ways"
New Hope Club, a British boy band that has been loved in Korea, has officially announced its disbandment. On the 4th (local ...
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BTS’s June video ‘necessary,’ CEO of Bighit Music says in interview
SEOUL--The shock announcement in June that the South Korean boy band BTS would shift its activities ... BTS is an internationally successful seven-member pop music group, and their announcement ...