June 8 (UPI) --A South Korean pop singer with the popular boy band Big Bang could be dishonorably discharged from the country's mandatory military service, if he receives a prison sentence that ...

South Korean boy band Big Bang are megastars of so-called K-pop. From left, Seungri, T.O.P., G-Dragon, Taeyang and Daesung. (Irwin Wong/for The Washington Post) ...

They’re Big Bang, and for a decade, these five stylish, edgy guys have defined and redefined South Korean pop music. They’ve defied the idea that so-called K-pop is inevitably sugar-coated and ...

The Big Bang story began 10 years ago, when YG Entertainment – founded in 1997 by one of the first K-pop stars, Yang Hyun-suk – asked five of its promising trainees to form a boy band.

South Korean K-pop group Big Bang members, from left, Seungri, G-Dragon, and Taeyang, pose for photos during a news conference following a promotional event for a mobile game in Hong Kong, Tuesday ...

Big Bang’s Global Influence: How to Build a Boy Band That Lasts. ... anyone attending the South Korean quintet Big Bang’s current world tour might be convinced that its moment is already here.

Big Bang, a boy band formed in 2006 by YG Entertainment, is on hiatus. Seungri is starting his two-year mandatory military service on March 25, according to Yonhap. Advertisement ...

With BTS poised to reunite, “Squid Game” returning and a Broadway show winning awards, the Korean cultural wave keeps on ...

Big Bang's G-Dragon has been appointed as a special professor at KAIST, a science and tech university in South Korea, for the next two years.