South China Morning Post • 23rd May 2022 Le Sserafim’s Kim Garam to step back from K-pop group amid bullying rumours Kim Garam is stepping back from Le Sserafim after a lawsuit was brought against her for school bullying. Photo: Instagram/@le_sserafim
South China Morning Post • 19th May 2022 K-pop fans overcome Covid fears and precautions to see their idols live Ateez before performing at Wembley Arena in London during their European tour. K-pop bands are back on the road and their fans are buzzing. Photo: Lisa Giles-Keddie via Reuters
South China Morning Post • 18th May 2022 K-pop’s Twice are proving girls can tour in America just as well as the boys K-pop girl group Twice perform at the Banc of California Stadium in the US city of Los Angeles in May. Photo: JYP Entertainment
South China Morning Post • 18th May 2022 The Girls are back!: Girls’ Generation to release first album in five years Girls’ Generation are releasing their first album in five years and the news has been trending on social media.
South China Morning Post • 14th May 2022 Exciting times for K-pop movie fans – America is making 4 right now K-pop: Demon Hunters from Sony Pictures Animation is a musical adventure that features a K-pop girl group hiding their identity as the titular demon hunters. Photo: Sony Pictures Animation
South China Morning Post • 11th May 2022 (G)I-dle member Miyeon talks about her first solo album MY Singer Miyeon of (G)I-dle has released her first solo EP, MY, which shines a different spotlight on the K-pop star. Photo: Cube Entertainment
South China Morning Post • 11th May 2022 Here’s what we know so about BTS’s upcoming 10th K-pop album, Proof BTS are set to drop their new album, Proof, on June 10, which is three days before the K-pop group’s ninth anniversary. Photo: Hybe
South China Morning Post • 10th May 2022 K-pop boy group Got7 are back with a new EP, a year after leaving label Got7 (pictured in 2019 in New York City) are back, with two fan concerts and a new EP set up for late May 2022. Photo: Manny Carabel/Getty Images)
South China Morning Post • 6th May 2022 Want to watch a BTS concert or stroll through Parasite’s sets in VR? A visitor at the “Korea: Cubically Imagined” travelling exhibit, which is currently in New York, uses VR tech to “enter” the sets of the Oscar-winning movie Parasite. Photo: Korea: Cubically Imagined presented by KOCCA
South China Morning Post • 4th May 2022 Sexual comments about K-pop girl group Aespa prompt all-boys school’s apology Aespa, who recently performed at high-profile US music festival Coachella, have become a trending topic in South Korea after facing sexual harassment at a school. Photo: AP
South China Morning Post • 3rd May 2022 Le Sserafim, Seventeen, Enhypen, TXT releases this month for BTS label Hybe BTS label Hybe has a slew of new releases in May 2022, from acts including Seventeen, Le Sserafim (above), TXT and Enhypen. Photo: Hybe
South China Morning Post • 29th April 2022 K-pop singer Min on her new album, independence and speaking up for herself K-pop singer Min talks about her new single, Hit Me Up, dancing, and her upcoming role on Broadway. Photo: Warner Music Korea
South China Morning Post • 29th April 2022 Who’s that on Psy’s new K-pop song That That? It’s only Suga of BTS Psy (left) and Suga of K-pop boy band BTS. Suga is the featured artist on – and producer of – Psy’s new song That That.
South China Morning Post • 21st April 2022 Asian acts from Jackson Wang to 2NE1 front and centre at Coachella 2022 CL of 88rising, who rose to fame as a member of former K-pop girl group 2NE1, performs at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival in California. Photo: AP
South China Morning Post • 20th April 2022 What does 2NE1 reuniting at Coachella mean for the once K-pop queens? Former 2NE1 members (front, from left) Park Bom, Minzy, CL and Dara perform their 2011 hit I Am the Best at Coachella in California, the US, on April 16, 2022. Photo: Amy Harris / Invision / AP
South China Morning Post • 19th April 2022 BTS live concerts in Las Vegas were unlike anything I’ve experienced before BTS perform at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas in April, where the K-pop superstars held four concerts over two weekends for a reported total of 200,000 Army fans. Photo: Big Hit Music
South China Morning Post • 19th April 2022 When K-pop was born in April 1992 with I Know by Seo Taiji & Boys Seo Taiji & Boys changed the sound of Korean pop music and the way musicians were viewed in conservative Korean society.
South China Morning Post • 15th April 2022 K-pop label apologises after boy band’s song accused of Nazi-inspired lyrics K-pop boy band Epex in the music video of their new single Anthem of Teen Spirit. Online audiences have accused the song’s imagery of military uniforms and attack dogs, as well as some lyrics, as being Nazi-inspired. Photo: C9 Entertainment
South China Morning Post • 11th April 2022 Kep1er, Loona, WJSN: meet the K-pop girl groups on Queendom 2 Brave Girls are one of the groups competing to be crowned the winners of K-pop show Queendom 2. Photo: Brave Entertainment
South China Morning Post • 8th April 2022 Is Lay leaving K-pop group Exo? Chinese star quits label SM Entertainment Chinese pop star Lay, a member of K-pop group Exo, has announced he is quitting the outfit’s music label, SM Entertainment. Photo: @layzhang/Instagram
