Music Business News: South Korea
News Partnership includes 'global management' of rising K-Pop stars, IVE Analysis News Over the weekend, HYBE officially ceased its attempt to acquire a 40% stake in SM Entertainment. News It's the end of the road for HYBE's ambition to buy up a large stake in one of its biggest K-pop rivals News SM Entertainment’s shareholders are not buying into HYBE’s plan to take control of its rival News Seoul court grants provisional injunction to block the company from issuing new shares Analysis News The biggest stories on MBW from the past seven days News HYBE says campaign was developed "to protect shareholder value from inappropriate actions by the current management at SM". News Rift between K-Pop giants HYBE and SM Entertainment escalates