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Events that drew wide attention, checked against official records and multiple outlets. Every statement is labeled fact, claim, disputed, rumor or debunked.
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Screen · 2026-03 ~ 2026-1031st Busan International Film Festival and the Oscar international feature pathwayIn its rules for the 99th Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences opened a second route into the International Feature Film category: besides coGlobal · 2026-03 ~ 2026-10BTS ARIRANG World Tour and Latin American ticket demandBTS released the studio album ARIRANG on March 20, 2026 and opened the world tour of the same name in Goyang on April 9. Per Billboard Boxscore, the tour's cumuGlobal · 2026-06 ~ 2026-10Grammys' new Best Asian Pop category and K-pop acts declining to submitOn June 16, 2026 the Recording Academy announced five new categories for the 2027 Grammys, including Best Asian Pop Music Performance, open only to recordings wScreen · 2026-05 ~ 2026-10Na Hong-jin's Hope: box office and receptionHope is Na Hong-jin's first film since The Wailing (2016). It competed at Cannes 2026 without winning a prize. Released in Korea on July 15, it set the year's bIndustry & law · 2024-04 ~ 2026-10HYBE–ADOR–NewJeans disputeThe dispute began in April 2024 when HYBE audited ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin and other executives, and grew from a fight over control of the label into a fight over NIndustry & law · 2026-09KATSEYE Paris concert touching incidentKATSEYE, the multinational girl group run by HYBE and Geffen Records, began its first arena tour, The Wildworld Tour, in Dublin on Sept. 1, 2026. During the 'TiGlobal · 2025-06 ~ 2026-10KPop Demon Hunters phenomenon and the sequel's theatrical planKPop Demon Hunters, made by Sony Pictures Animation and released on Netflix on June 20, 2025, became Netflix's most-watched film. 'Golden' by the in-film group Industry & law · 2025-07 ~ 2026-11One Hundred / Big Planet Made unpaid-settlement disputeFrom the second half of 2025, artists at One Hundred, led by Cha Ga-won, and its affiliate Big Planet Made Entertainment (BPM) said settlement payments had stopGlobal · 2025-11 ~ 2026-09Stray Kids' STRAYCITY in Latin America — Rock in Rio headline and the Mexico palace mix-upStray Kids headlined Rock in Rio's main Palco Mundo stage on Sept 11, 2026 — the first K-pop headliner since the festival began in 1985. On Sept 24 Mexican PresScreen · 2026-09 ~ 2027-03Tapas shutdown and Kakao Entertainment's webtoon platform consolidationOn Sept. 22, 2026 Kakao Entertainment announced it would merge KakaoPage and Kakao Webtoon into a KakaoPage-centred service by year-end and close Tapas, its NorScreen · 2026-09 ~ 2026-10The Assassin(s) historical distortion disputeHur Jin-ho's The Assassin(s), a fiction film about the Aug. 15, 1974 shooting in which First Lady Yuk Young-soo was killed during an attempt on President Park CScreen · 2026-09 ~ 2026-10Netflix's The Scandal: viewership and mixed receptionThe Scandal is an eight-episode Netflix series that moves the 18th-century French novel Dangerous Liaisons to Joseon, directed by Jung Ji-woo and starring Son YIndustry & law · 2026-07 ~ 2026-10TWICE's 2026 JYP contract renewalTWICE debuted in 2015, and all nine members renewed with JYP in July 2022. As those contracts neared expiry in 2026, a second renewal round began. On July 14 ouIndustry & law · 2024-03 ~ 2026-09UNIS contract expiry and disbandmentUNIS is an eight-member girl group formed through SBS's audition show 'Universe Ticket' and debuted in March 2024. On Sept. 22, 2026 their agency F&F EntertainmFandom · 2026-03 ~ 2026-10YENA's 'Catch Catch' — the 100M-view milestone and the China challenge boomYENA released 'Catch Catch', title track of her fifth EP LOVE CATCHER, on March 11, 2026. A dance challenge on Douyin made it a hit in Chinese-speaking markets