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The HYBE Empire and Its Disputes

How one group's success became a multi-label company: through the acts of Big Hit, Belift Lab, Source Music and ADOR, the Japan and US labels, to the fan platform Weverse.

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This course follows how one group's success — BTS — grew into a multi-label company. From Big Hit's later acts to sub-labels Belift Lab, Source Music and ADOR, through a Japan-label group and a global project group, to the fan platform Weverse. A deep-dive course.

  1. 1BTSGrupos de K-popThe starting point is BTS — the one group that grew Big Hit, now Hybe, into a global company. The course asks what that company looks like today.
  2. 2Hybe CorporationAgências e empresasOn to Hybe itself, the company behind BTS — its renaming from Big Hit and its shift into a multi-label structure.
  3. 3Tomorrow X TogetherGrupos de K-popTo Tomorrow X Together, the next boy band Hybe (then Big Hit) built in-house — how a next generation was made inside the same company.
  4. 4CortisGrupos de K-popOnward to Cortis, a 2025 debut from the same label — confirming Big Hit Music is still building new boy bands.
  5. 5IllitGrupos de K-popWidening to a sub-label: Illit, a girl group Belift Lab formed through a survival audition show.
  6. 6Le SserafimGrupos de K-popTo Le Sserafim, from another sub-label, Source Music — how Hybe runs girl groups across several labels at once.
  7. 7NewJeansGrupos de K-popOn to NewJeans, from a third sub-label, ADOR — the dispute between ADOR and Hybe over this group is covered in more depth in the issues list.
  8. 8&TeamGrupos de K-popBeyond Korea, to a Japan label: &Team, a boy band formed by Hybe Labels Japan.
  9. 9KatseyeGrupos de K-popAcross to the US, to Katseye, a global project group Hybe built jointly with Universal — where the label system crosses borders.
  10. 10WeverseAgências e empresasThe course ends at Weverse, the fan platform — confirming that every label and group just covered ultimately connects through this one platform.

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