MINHYUK is used to being the energy in the room. With MONSTA X, that's the side people know best

South Korean artist GAHO is laughing when he says this to me, but the image sticks. He is talking about the new music he has been making – the demos he cannot wait to play for people

Born in Seoul and raised partly abroad through her years with global group NOW UNITED, global Korean pop artist HEYOON has spent the better part of a decade learning how to exist within a collective

Nine years into THE BOYZ, JACOB is the first current member to step out alone, and j. doesn't announce that fact so much as insist on it

Five months after debuting, most rookie groups are still finding their footing. LNGSHOT are releasing their third project

To understand ARTMS, it helps to start with the idea of return. The five-member K-pop group – HeeJin, HaSeul, Kim Lip, JinSoul and Choerry – came together as artists who already understood pop as something larger than a song

David Yong's route into K-pop doesn't follow the standard idol playbook. After discovering the genre through BIGBANG and TWICE, the Singaporean entrepreneur drew on years of vocal training as he took on Korean-language study, dance lessons, and recording in Seoul

For a band still defining itself in public, KAVE already have a very clear sense of what they are not. They are not interested in staying in one lane