The impact of Korean pop music (most commonly shorthanded as K-pop) on global music trends over the past few years is undeniable. Take BTS, for example. Since their debut in 2013, the Korean septet ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Benjamin is a New York-based writer covering global pop music. Earlier this year, NCT opened up about the process of creating ...

This year saw a ton of amazing K-pop performances, from (G)I-dle's staging of “Oh My God” at the KBS Song Festival, to Sunghoon's figure skating during Enhypen's MAMA appearance, to pretty much every ...

Happy 2021, everyone! Phew! Now that we’ve survived 2020, it’s time to dust ourselves off and look forward to what 2021 has to offer. And wouldn’t it be awesome if we could actually have a hint of ...

Back in 2009, eager to share my love of K-pop with pretty much anyone who would listen, I showed a grad school classmate the music video for “Lollipop” by BIGBANG and 2NE1. He laughed and told me the ...