If you discovered K-pop 10 years ago, you’d have found that the average person in the U.S. knew very little (if anything) about the genre. Even if they were mindlessly dancing along to PSY’s “Gangnam ...

It’s hard to realize you’ve completely fallen out of love with art you used to hold so dear. As a longtime listener, I can’t ...

At the close of 2024, K-pop is becoming territorial in a different sense. Earlier this month, the BLACKPINK member Rosé and the girl group TWICE, two of the genre's towering figures, released new ...

K-pop, short for Korean pop, originated in South Korea in the 1990s and has become a global phenomenon. ATEEZ's sold-out Nashville concert exemplifies K-pop's growing popularity in Music City. The ...

On these shores, Korean pop music—more popularly known as K-Pop—is perhaps most identified with the club-ready electronic beats and slickly tuxedoed look of global phenomenon (and newly crowned “King ...

A two-day ceremony and a too-quickly-concluded performance. The 2025 MAMA Awards have officially ended. Grab your cameras and ...

K-Pop Talk is Paste‘s monthly column featuring interviews, features, reviews and explainers dissecting Korea’s pop music scene from an American perspective. Sometimes, when Americans are asking this ...

K-pop is having a golden moment. The signs have been there since the start of the summer, with groups such as Stray Kids, Itzy, Enhypen and Ateez driving sweaty swarms of American K-pop fans to ...

K-pop is huge these days and it’s only getting bigger. Over the past decade, fandom for Korean pop music and its vibrant energy has spread worldwide to become what’s been described as a K-pop idols ...

In this op-ed, writer Chyenne Tatum explores where K-pop has thrived in 2024, and argues that an obsession with charts is keeping listeners from exploring new music. If you discovered K-pop 10 years ...