On August 1, 2025, a viral clip drew attention online after Pink Slip, one of the producers of KATSEYE’s song Gnarly, ...

HYBE's recent controversies around Chairman Bang Si-hyuk and three ex-employees made news. What do they mean for BTS' label and the K-pop business?

On Tuesday, July 29, the South Korean media outlet Yonhap News reported that HYBE Labels is currently under investigation for ...

Hive has been subject to the National Tax Service's tax investigation. The impact is growing as the National Tax Service moves at a time when police are being investigated for fraudulent and ...

Bang Si-hyuk, founder and chairman of the entertainment company Hybe, is facing legal troubles. South Korea’s top financial watchdog is planning to refer him to the prosecution for alleged fraud ...

The Seoul HQ of K-pop company HYBE has been raided twice in the last week, first by officials investigating fraud allegations ...

Police stormed K-pop giant HYBE’s headquarters Thursday in a sweeping probe into allegations that founder and chairman Bang ...

Hybe, the entertainment giant behind K-pop phenomenon BTS, is now under investigation by the country’s tax authorities, ...

K-pop giant HYBE says there was nothing improper about the company’s 2020 IPO, and plans to cooperate with investigators.

Chairman and CEO Bang Si-hyuk, center, photographed Oct. 15, 2020, the day his company, Big Hit Entertainment, debuted on the Korea Exchange in Seoul.

Initially founded as Big Hit Entertainment in 2005 by musical mastermind Bang Si-hyuk, the company listed publicly on the Korean exchange in 2020 as HYBE; it’s valued at $9.5 billion today.

The first ASEAN-ROK Culture Innovation Summit featured Big Hit Entertainment CEO Bang Si-Hyuk, Korea president Moon Jae-in, Myanmar state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and ...