YG Entertainment updated their blog to wish Big Bang's Seungri a happy birthday as it is December 12 in Korea.  Seungri is now twenty-four years old (twenty-three in America)!His good friend, F.T Island's Jonghun, likewise wished him a happy birthday on Twitter and uploaded a picture of a tall birthday cake with the number '24' as candles!Happy birthday, Seungri!승리야 생일축 pic.twitter.com/8EQeBsj6pf— JongHoon/フニ様 (@FtGtJH) December 11, 2

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YG stans were in for some disappointing news as it has been revealed that YG Entertainment artists, including this year's chart-topping artists G-Dragon, 2NE1, and more, are currently not on the roster of attendance for the '2013 MBC Gayo Daejaejun'. An MBC rep stated, "G-Dragon and 2NE1 appeared last year, but this year they're not on the roster to attend the '2013 MBC Gayo Daejaejun'."Another rep from the broadcast station also said

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Happy Tuesday everyone! Welcome to the greatest column ever written about K-pop girl groups: Confessions of an Uncle Fan. Last week I announced that today would be my final column. Unfortunately because of my full time job and other new commitments, I just won't be able to write regularly going forward and since this was basically the end of the year, I thought now was the perfect time to wrap up what had been a truly fun nine months. Before I go

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As the year-end music festivals are preparing to wrap up 2013 with a bang, one of the questions on everyone's mind is whether YG Entertainment would refrain from participating in the 'KBS Music Festival' for the fourth year in a row.One KBS rep said on December 9, "We have not determined the singers who will be taking part in 'KBS Music Festival.'" One rep also said, "We asked YG Entertainment to appear at the 'KBS Music Festival' on December 27

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'One Night of TV Entertainment' looked into the Big 3's stock wealth!The December 4 broadcast revealed that currently, the wealthiest stockholder in entertainment is SM Entertainment's Lee Soo Man. SM Entertainment became the first entertainment label to be listed on the KOSDAQ. SM Entertainment's success this year was largely because of EXO's new success, as well as the continued success of groups such as SHINee, f(x), Girls' Generation, Super J

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Riding on the viral hit of Psy's "Gangnam Style" and surging YG stock prices, Yang Hyun Suk was on top of the entertainment world for quite a while in terms of stock wealth (at one point having stock holdings worth over $200,000,000 USD).Even back in September, it was revealed that Yang Hyun Suk was wealthiest in terms of stock in the entertainment business with SM Entertainment's Lee Soo Man trailing behind in second. However, the tables have tu

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YG Entertainment has recently opened up a new Facebook page called 'YG Next Creator' and uploaded a series of pictures that could only be considered teaser images. However, the big question is: What are they teasing?On this Facebook page and the agency's official Twitter, they asked, "WHO IS THE NEXT YG CREATOR?"  It is uncertain what they mean by "creator," but people are speculating that this may have to do with WINNER's pending debut or perhap

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One of the judges of 'K-Pop Star 3', YG Entertainment's Yang Hyun Suk has fans buzzing already with guesses by revealing that he already has eyes on two contestants to recruit into his agency. During a conversation with Star News, Yang Hyun Suk shared, "Contrary to the concerns I had at the start of 'K-Pop Star 3', a lot of talented rising star prospects participated... The first broadcast has been unveiled and I've judged various

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Big Bang's Taeyang seemed to be moved by a congratulatory message from his boss, YG Entertainment's Yang Hyun Suk, after his win earlier on SBS's 'Inkigayo'.Claiming the trophy with his solo comeback track "RINGA LINGA", Taeyang received a simple yet sincere message from YG himself, which he proceeded to save and post on his Instagram. His message simply reads "Congratulations!! ^_^", to which Taeyang responded with "Wow! Hyung..." followed

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On the November 7 installment of JTBC's 'Ssul Jeon,' Heechul talked about SM Entertainment's stance on their idols composing their own music as well as SM's very own composer Yoo Young Jin, who recently ranked fourth on the list of song producers who made the highest income in 2012.In this episode, Kim Gu Ra asked in relation to SM Entertainment, "Why don't they raise their singers as composers, too?"Heechul replied, "In Lee Soo Man's opinion, 'I

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