Jin Hit News in English

  In K-pop, the term "K-pop curse" or the "7-year curse" is widely known. It refers to the phenomenon in which idol groups often disband or undergo lineup changes after a certain period of activity, particularly around seven years after their debut. Many famous groups such as 2NE1, Miss A, Kara, Infinite, B.A.P, and Beast—and even many third- and fourth-generation groups—have been unable to maintain their original lineup as they did at debut. Seven years has become something of a superstition that fans are deeply concerned about. In reality, however, there are many direct reasons why most groups cannot maintain their original lineup after seven years, rather than it being primarily due to spiritual or superstitious factors. For example, standard contracts between idols and Korean entertainment companies typically last seven years (according to regulations by the Korean Entertainment Producers' Association). When this period expires, many groups do not renew thei...

  Original article:  Raonnews HYBE is joining forces with global audio and music streaming platform Spotify to expand the global reach of K-pop content.  On the 6th, HYBE announced that it has signed a global content partnership agreement with Spotify and will launch an official video podcast channel on the Spotify platform. The core of this partnership is that HYBE will plan and produce video content, while Spotify will support its distribution so that music fans around the world can watch and enjoy it.  HYBE pursued this collaboration after recognizing the rapidly growing influence of video podcasts in the global music market and as a way to broaden the points of engagement for K-pop content. With Spotify—home of approximately 751 million users worldwide—firmly established as a leading platform in the podcast service sector, the company expects that users will naturally encounter and experience K-pop while exploring content on the platform.  HYBE will open the...

  Many years ago, the nickname "BTS's mom" was widely used within the fandom to refer to Jin. The reason was that, as the oldest member of BTS, Jin often took on the responsibility of managing and taking care of the younger members in their daily lives. He was also the one who handled most of the cooking in the group's shared kitchen. Not only that, he served as the pillar who kept the group united, creating a harmonious atmosphere among members with very different personalities. Of course, managing six teenage boys—an age when everyone carries a strong ego and heightened sensitivity—was by no means easy. Moreover, although Jin was the oldest, he himself was only around 20-21 years old during those years. Nevertheless, he fulfilled his role naturally and exceptionally well, laying the foundation for BTS's harmony, which has lasted for more than a decade and continues to to this day. To illustrate how excellently Jin carried out his role as the "eldest brother...

  Original article:  Media Today ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ March 4 — Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Report to the National Assembly's Culture Committee ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Regarding the exclusive live broadcast of BTS's comeback performance in Gwanghwamun, Seoul, on the 21st by global OTT platform Netflix, lawmaker Im Oh-kyung of the Democratic Party of Korea, floor leader of the National Assembly's Culture, Sport and Tourism Committee, urged the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism to consider support measures for domestic OTT serviced when broadcasting K-content.  On March 4, during a plenary session of the Culture Committee, Im questioned Minister Choi Hwi-young, who was present to deliver a work report from the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism.  She stated, "Do you understand what Netflix's exclusive broadcast implies? People around the world must subscribe to Netflix in order to watch BTS's performance. In effect,...

  ✪ 2013-2014: Debut & Early Struggles 2013 ● Debuted with "No More Dream" (2 Cool 4 Skool)  ● Began building a small but loyal fan base ● Known for socially conscious lyrics 2014 ● First overseas concerts ● Released "Dark & Wild" ● Started gaining international online fans 📌 Era: Survival and foundation.  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✪ 2015-2016: Breakthrough in Korea & Asia 2015 ● Breakthrough hit: I NEED U ● First music show wins ● Won "Artist of the year" at major Korean awards 2016 ● Released "Wings" ● First daesang (grand prize)  ● Major growth in Japan and Southeast Asia 📌 Era: Domestic success → regional dominance ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2017: Global breakthrough 2017 ● Won "Top Social Artist" at the Billboard Music Awards ● First K-pop group to perform at major U.S. award shows ● Appeared on American TV programs ● Entered Billboard Hot 100 📌 Era: Entry into Western mainstream ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━...

Original article:  Herald Economy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Accused of stalking by visiting Jungkook's residence 23 times "Repeatedly rang the doorbell hundreds of times and waited nearby" Also charged with trespassing by entering through an open side door ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ It has been confirmed that prosecutors have indicted a Brazilian woman in her 30s for repeatedly visiting the residence of Jungkook, a member of BTS, and engaging in stalking behavior, including ringing his front-door doorbell hundreds or times and unlawfully entering his home.  According to the investigation by Herald Economy  on March 3, the Women and Children Crimes Investigation Division of the Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office (Chief prosecutor Wang Sun-joo) indicted the woman, identified as Ms. A, on February 27 on charges of violating the anti-stalking act and trespassing, while she was custody. Although she was also investigated for attempted trespassing...