Bang Si-hyuk In The News

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HYBE CEO Jiwon Park resigns; Chief Strategy Officer Jason Jaesang Lee named as new Chief Exec at K-Pop giant

Jiwon Park, who has served as HYBE's CEO for the past three years, has stepped down from his role at the company.

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Lenzo Yoon, one of the key execs behind the rise of BTS, is leaving HYBE (report)

Exec joined the company in 2010 as Head of Strategic Planning

Analysis News

A shaman, a management coup, a tearful press conference and a $770m market cap dip: What the heck is going on at HYBE?

Disputes between record companies and their executives have happened before, but this one takes the cake for weirdness

Interviews

BandLab CEO, Meng Ru Kuok: ‘I think there will be over 1 billion music creators by 2030, potentially even sooner.’

MBW and Goldman Sachs team up for our first Entrepreneur Of The Year award – and BandLab's co-founder picks up the prize

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Jungkook smashes record for fastest song to hit 1bn streams on Spotify with ‘Seven’

Seven smashed the previous record set by Miley Cyrus’ Flowers

Analysis News

The strategic reason HYBE’s Chairman wants to retire in 10 years, and 2 other things we learned from Bang Si-Hyuk’s recent interview

Bang Si-hyuk explained the logic behind HYBE's US expansion, the differences between the US and Korean music industries, and his retirement, in recent chat with Bloomberg

Analysis

Kakao and K-Pop giant SM Entertainment are ramping up their US presence. What will that mean for HYBE?

Korea's biggest music companies are increasing their presence in the United States – and they're hungry to grow market share

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Cinq Music invests in Street Mob Records, fortifying its position in regional Mexican genre

Cinq has raised large amounts of money through a series of funding rounds over the past several years, including a $100-million injection from GoDigital in 2022