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In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces. [57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
An idol (Korean: 아이돌; RR: aidol) is a type of entertainer who works in the field of Korean popular music (K-pop), either as a member of a group or as a solo act. They typically work for an entertainment agency that operates a highly managed star system that idols are produced by and debut under.
In 2012, Kim participated in the second season of competition television show K-pop Star 2 at the age of 16. [8] [9] She did not make it through the second round of the ranking audition, but Yang Hyun-suk brought her back as a wildcard for the casting round where Kim performed a duet of Taeyang's "I Need A Girl" with fellow contestant Jo Yoo-min. [10] They both made it to the final casting ...
Universe League is a South Korean reality competition series where boys born before 2011, regardless of nationality, competed for a chance to debut in a new boy group. In the finale on January 24, 2025, which was broadcast live, the show announced the final nine members who would debut as AHOF (abbreviation for All-time Hall Of Famer) and will be managed by F&F Entertainment.
Producer Shin Yu-seon stated that they started recruiting participants in April 2017. Only female trainees aged 13 (Korean age) and above who were not trainees of any entertainment company were allowed to join. The producer also clarified that former trainees and even former singers were also given the chance to participate.
Yoon San-ha (Korean: 윤산하; born March 21, 2000), known mononymously as Sanha, is a South Korean singer and actor under the label Fantagio. He is a member of the South Korean boy group Astro and a former member of its sub-unit Moonbin & Sanha .
The rise of groups such as Exo and BTS in 2012 and 2013 launched the third generation of boy bands and introduced K-pop to mass global appeal. [3] BTS, in particular, has attained mainstream Western appeal with number-one hits on the Billboard charts and multiple collaborations with several global artists, including Coldplay, Nicki Minaj, and ...
In 2019, she was ranked as the sixth most popular female K-pop idol in a survey of soldiers doing mandatory military service in South Korea. [50] During the same year, Jisoo was the only one of two Korean singers added on the BoF 500 list, a "definitive professional index" of people shaping the $2.4 trillion fashion industry. [1]