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Idol bands of young boys or girls were formed to cater to a growing teenage audience. In 1995, Lee Soo-man, the founder of SM Entertainment, brought the idol trainee system to South Korea, which further solidified the format for idol bands and modern Korean pop culture. [2]
An idol (Korean: 아이돌; RR: Aidol) refers to a type of celebrity working in the field of K-pop in fandom culture in South Korea, either as a member of a group or as a solo act. K-pop idols are characterized by the highly manufactured star system that they are produced by and debuted under, as well as their tendency to represent a hybridized ...
Idol groups on stage at KCON 2012. Idol musical bands in South Korea started to appear after the success of Seo Taiji and Boys, whose debut in 1992 is considered a turning point in the history of Korean popular music. [1] [2] 2012 was a record year in K-pop in terms of number of rookie artists: 33 male groups and 38 girl groups debuted. [3] [4]
The following is a list of notable individual K-pop artists. [1] [2 ... see List of South Korean idol ... Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
SJ Returns – Super Junior Real Comeback Story, a reality show featuring the idol group's development of their album, began airing on October 9. [115] On October 30, the music video for "One More Chance" was released as a pre-release track for the forthcoming album. [116]
Stray Kids was recognized for their music and performance, having performed as a headliner at major international music festivals like Lollapalooza (Paris in 2023, [141] then Chicago in 2024), [317] BST Hyde Park, [318] [319] and I-Days; [320] and was the first K-Pop boy-band and the first K-Pop act to do so.
B.I.G (Korean: 비아이지; also known as Boys In Groove), was a four member South Korean boy band formed by GH Entertainment in Seoul, South Korea. [1] They debuted on July 9, 2014, with their first digital single "Hello". [2]
Kwon has continued to promote as a solo artist under the name 10 cm, releasing the album 4.0 in September 2017 [11] and several singles, including the Gaon Digital Chart top-ten hits "Mattress" (2018), "However" (2019), and "Borrow Your Night" (2021). His concert "Hotel room 1010" (2020) is the first paid online concert of a Korean non-idol artist.