K-Pop News
Rosé’s ‘APT.’ Crowned Song of the Year: A Landmark VMAs Win for K-Pop
On a night packed with pop power, Rosé made history at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards—becoming the first K-pop artist to win Song of the Year for her smash collaboration “APT.” with Bruno Mars. The ceremony took place on...
Felix Fights Back: U.S. Judge Lets Stray Kids Star Subpoena X to Unmask Alleged Defamer
Stray Kids’ Felix has taken a decisive legal step against anonymous online defamation—and a U.S. federal judge has backed him. On Sept. 5, 2025, Judge Beth Labson Freeman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted...
From Clicks to Crickets: Inside the Slow Collapse of a K-Pop Tabloid Era
The rise: attention arbitrage in the Hallyu boom In the mid-to-late 2010s, the global K-pop surge met an internet hungry for fast, emotional headlines. Tabloid-style sites scaled by translating rumors, framing minor social posts as scandals, and “chaining” micro-articles (ten...