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Aspiring K-pop idols, known as "trainees," sign contracts with management agencies when the trainee is as young as 12 or 13 years old. [3] It may take ten years for an agency to groom the trainee and for them to debut on stage, according to the former head of the Korea Entertainment Law Society. [2]
KCON is an annual convention held in locations across the world, created by Koreaboo and organized by CJ ENM Entertainment Division. It was first held in Southern California in 2012 and has since expanded to ten countries as of 2022. In 2015, KCON expanded to Japan [1] and then quickly announced the first KCON USA on the East Coast. [2]
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Chey was born on December 3, 1960, in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea as the eldest son of Chey Jong-hyun [], chairman of Sunkyung Group (now SK Group).Chey attended Korea University where he received a bachelor's degree in physics, and later studied for a PhD in economics at University of Chicago, US, but did not finish.
Soompi was founded in 1998 by Korean American web developer Susan Kang, [10] [11] In February 2011, it was acquired by Enswers, Inc., [12] [13] [14] a Seoul-based IT venture company specializing in video search technology, [15] and operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of it.
A2K (also abbreviated as "America2Korea") is a 2023 American reality competition show.The series was a joint project between JYP Entertainment and Republic Records.The goal of the series was to create the first American girl group using the rigorous K-pop training system.
[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 ] This list of boy bands and girl groups is organized by year of debut.
WOMAD (Korean: 워마드) is an online community of women based in South Korea.It was founded in 2016, after it split from Megalia, another radical feminist online community, after Megalia began restricting the use of homophobic and transphobic slurs.