Block B Explained

Block B
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Origin:Seoul, South Korea
Genre:K-pop, hip hop
Years Active:โ€“present
Current Members:

Block B (ko|๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„) is a South Korean boy band managed by KQ Entertainment,[1] and consists of seven members: Taeil, B-Bomb, Jaehyo, U-Kwon, Park Kyung, Zico, and P.O. Block B has received several accolades, including nominations for seven Golden Disc Awards and eleven Seoul Music Awards.

Block B was created by musician Cho PD in 2011 on a budget of US$1.4 million. They made their live debut on KBS' Music Bank and MTV's Match Up!. In 2012, they released their debut studio album, Blockbuster, which finished in the top ten on the Billboard Korea and Gaon Album charts.

In 2013, Block B filed a lawsuit against Stardom Entertainmentโ€”their agency at the timeโ€”and took a small break from releasing music and performing live.

Block B achieved commercial success with the single albums Jackpot (2014), Very Good (2015) and H.E.R. (2015). In 2016, they released the Japanese-language studio album, My Zone, which ranked in the top ten on the Billboard Japan and Oricon charts.

History

2011โ€“2013: Formation and beginnings

In February 2011, Cho PD announced that he would spend US$1.4 million to create a seven-member hip-hop group under his "Creating Korea's Eminem Project".[2] On April 13, 2011, their debut music video for "Freeze!" was released, but banned by the Commission of Youth Protection because they felt that it was too sexy for Korean television.[3] As a result, the song could not be sold to minors under the age of 19, and the video could not be aired before 10 pm.

On April 15, 2011, Block B made their live debut on KBS Music Bank.[4] [5] The group followed up with another track, "Wanna B".[6] A mini album, New Kids on the Block, was released on June 23, 2011.[7] On June 22, 2011, the first episode of MTV's eight-episode series Match Up! was aired featuring Block B and B1A4.[8] On October 16, 2011, MTV started airing a series of specials for the Match Up series that followed Block B as they promoted in Japan.

On January 3, 2013, it was reported that Block B had filed a suit against their agency to ask for their exclusive contract to be canceled.[9] According to media reports, the Block B members filed against Stardom at the Seoul Central District Court and stated "During the signing of the exclusive contract, it was promised that in addition to providing proper training opportunity and facilities, we would be paid on every 25th of the following month... However, the agency has not paid us for nearly one year since April 2011."[10] They stated: "The CEO of the agency, Mr. Lee, has also disappeared with the 70,000,000 KRW (~66,000 USD) that he collected from the members' parents." On May 20, 2013, it was reported that Lee had committed suicide.[11]

On June 7, 2013, the court ruled in favor of the company, saying "It's difficult to see the company not being able to pay the group as intentional. From the evidence provided so far, it is difficult to claim that the label purposely did not pay Block B. It is also difficult to say that the label did not provide proper facilities such as studios and dorms, and it is also difficult to say that they did not provide education and guidance. From written records, it cannot be said that Stardom Entertainment violated their management obligations. There is a possibility that the musical income of 430,000,000 KRW (approximately $385,000 USD) and the event income of 5,000,000 KRW (approximately $4,500 USD) was not properly taken care of. However, from just the evidence provided, it cannot be said that the label purposely kept the money from the members."[12]

2013โ€“2014: Blockbuster and mini albums

On August 29, 2013, Block B announced that they had negotiated the transfer of their rights from Stardom to a new management company, Seven Seasons.[13] A representative from Seven Seasons said that the group was planning to release a new album in October.[14] On September 17, 2013, Block B announced their pre-released single via Seven Seasons' YouTube channel. The single "Be the Light" featured Taeil's singing voice with a short clip of their music video accompanying it.[15] The full video was released September 22, 2013.[16] The song reached #14 on the Gaon digital chart in the first week of its release.[17]

Block B released their first full-length album, Blockbuster, in 2013. The title track "Nillili Mambo" was well received and ranked number 10 on Billboards World Albums Chart.[18] Very Good reached number 1 on the Gaon album chart,[19] while the singles "Very Good", "When Where What How", and "Nice Day" respectively debuted at 6, 20, and 26 on the Gaon digital single chart.[20] The album also reached no. 6 on the Billboard world album chart.[21]

Block B starred their own reality show titled Five Minutes Before Chaos, which premiered April 10 on Mnet.[22] In early April, Block B announced that they would release a new album entitled Jackpot. The video for the album's title track, "Jackpot", was released on April 15, while the album itself was scheduled to be released on April 17. In May, Block B held their first Korean concert series 2014 Blockbuster, selling out Olympic Park's Olympic Hall on the first day of pre-sales. The series was held on May 17 and 18 in Seoul, as well as May 23 and 24 in Busan.[23] Block B presented showcases in New York, Miami, and Washington D.C. in June through the concert organizer Jazzy Group.[24]

On July 24, Seven Seasons announced that Block B released a mini album titled H.E.R.[25] The mini album's to titular track reached number 3 on the Gaon digital singles chart, while the singles "Jackpot", "Extraordinary Woman", "Hold Me Now", and "Very Good (Rough Ver.)" respectively peaked at number 5, 16, 28, and 80.[26] The album debuted at number six on the Billboard World Albums chart[27] and number two on the Gaon album chart.[28] From November 22 to 23, Block B performed an encore solo Korean concert series, 2014 Blockbuster Remastering, which attracted more than 10,000 fans to two shows at Seoul's SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium.[29]

2015โ€“2017: My Zone and expansion

Block B made its official Japanese debut on January 21, 2015, with the release of the single "Very Good (Japanese Version)". The single peaked number 5 on the Oricon weekly chart[30] and number seven on the Billboard Japan Hot 100.[31] The CD release followed a pair of concerts in Tokyo on January 16 and 17 that attracted more than 5,000 fans.[32] The group had its first official fan meeting on February 15, 2015, attracting approximately 8,000 fans to Seoul's SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium.[33] Block B conducted their first European tour in February and March 2015, visiting Paris on February 27, Helsinki on March 1, Warsaw on March 6, and Milan on March 8. The tour sold out most shows.[34] [35]

And album by sub-unit Bastarz was released April 13, and peaked at number 3 on the Gaon album chart.[36] Although originally four concerts being scheduled, due to strong demand for tickets, the tour was expanded to seven concerts on May 14, with performances in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and Nagoya[37] having some 20,000 fans.[38] The single "H.E.R" debuted at number seven on the weekly Oricon chart.[39]

On August 2, Block B performed at the Los Angeles KCON. The Los Angeles Times reported that "Block B had one of the most successful melds of Korean hip-hop with boy-band dynamics to come of the scene."[40] On September 23, it was announced that Block B would tour the United States for a second time in a concert series organized by SubKulture Entertainment. The group performed in San Francisco November 11, the Chicago area November 13, and Los Angeles November 15.[41]

Block B released the single "A Few Years Later" two days after their Saturday Night Live Korea appearance, which reached number 3 on the Gaon digital chart.[42] Blooming Period debuted at number one on the Gaon album chart,[43] with the singles "Toy", "Walkin' in the Rain", "It Was Love" (Taeil version), and "Bingle Bingle" debuting on the Gaon digital chart at numbers two, 16, 17, and 52, respectively.[44]

On June 16, 2016, Block B's Agency Seven Seasons announced their name change to "KQ Entertainment" in hopes to branch out more and improve their management and development of various artists.[45] It was revealed later by KQ Entertainment's CEO, Kim Kyu Wook that the company is a new type of entities in the business field, where different companies are operated by the same management team and the same employees and Seven Seasons will remain the label that manages Block B, but later on, KQ Entertainment became the company that manages Block B directly, Seven Seasons name and logo were no longer seen on many Block B members albums or merchandise.[46]

Block B released two singles in Japan in 2016, "Jackpot" and "Toy".[47] In late September, it was announced that the group would release My Zone, their first Japanese album, on October 26, 2016.[48] On December 15, 2016, the concert organizer My Music Taste announced that Block B would have a European tour between February and March 2017. The cities on the tour include Amsterdam, Helsinki, Lisbon, Budapest, and London.[49]

Block B Project-1 was released in Japan on September 20, 2017. The album featured five of the group members performing songs with a variety of Japanese artists, including "Winner", performed by P.O and U-Kwon with Chanmina; "Lost & Found", performed by Taeil with Keita Tachibana of W-inds; "Paradise", performed by B-Bomb with Ken the 390; and "Bus Stop", performed by Jaehyo with Naoko Tanaka. The members (with the exception of P.O) also performed a showcase in Tokyo the day before the release.[50]

On October 17, 2017, Seven Seasons announced that Block B would release their sixth mini-album on November 7.[51] On November 8, 2017, it was reported that Block B will have two concerts between January 27 and 28, 2018 in Jamsil Arena, Seoul.[52] Later in the month, Sony Music Entertainment had struck a partnership with KQ Entertainment to promote the company's artists globally.[53] At the end of 2017, Seven Seasons announced that Block B would return on January 8, 2018, with a repackage of their previous album, Montage, titled Re:MONTAGE.[54] The title track, "Don't Leave", is a ballad song produced by Park Kyung.[55]

2018โ€“2023: Military enlistments

On November 23, 2018, Seven Seasons announced that all members except Zico had renewed their contracts with Seven Seasons to pursue individual and sub-unit projects. The label said that future full-group activities would be negotiated with all seven members.[56] On December 20, 2018, Jaehyo became the first group member to enter into the conscription required of South Korean men.[57] [58] Due to an injured knee, he was discharged from service in September 2019.[59]

On June 10, 2019, Taeil began his compulsory military duty.[60] After fulfilling his term of service, Taeil returned home on leave December 4, 2020, with his official discharge the following month.[61] On October 10, 2019, B-Bomb began his military duty.[62] On December 7 and 8, Park Kyung held his first solo concert with Block B as the second day guests, all members except B-Bomb and Taeil (who joined the concert through a phone call) were present as Block B.[63] On May 18, 2020, U-Kwon began his compulsory military duty,[64] and on July 21, 2020, it was announced that Zico would begin his military service July 30 as a public-service worker.[65]

On January 4, 2021, Taeil was formally discharged from the military.[66] B-Bomb was officially discharged from military service April 27, 2021,[67] while U-Kwon was discharged November 21, 2021.[68] In September 2021, P.O's label, Seven Seasons, announced that he would not be renewing his contract with them,[69] and on October 29, 2021, P.O signed with the agency Artist Company.[70] P.O enlisted in the Republic of Korea Marine Corps on March 28, 2022.[71] [72] On April 29, 2022, Zico was discharged from public service.[73] On September 27, 2023 P.O was discharged from the military.[74]

2024โ€“present: Block B's first performance as a full group

According to a News 1 report on August 22, 2024, the entire group will be appearing on the KBS 2TV show 'The Seasons - Zico's Artist' final episode recording in early September.[75]

Members

Sub-units

Discography

See main article: Block B discography.

Studio albums

Filmography

Reality shows

Awards and nominations

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Award/CriticsCategoryResult
201220th Korean Culture Entertainment AwardsNew Artist Award
27th Golden Disk Awards[76] New Rising Star Award
Popularity Award
SBS MTV Best of The Best Awards[77] Best Male Video ("Nillili Mambo")
22nd Seoul Music Awards[78] Bonsang Award
2013SBS MTV Best of The Best Awards[79] Best Male Group
K-Star Best KPop Awards[80] Best Fandom
Nate Year End Awards[81] Best Boy Group
28th Golden Disk Awards[82] Disk Album Award (Very Good)
Popularity Award
23rd Seoul Music Awards[83] Bonsang Award
Popularity Award
2014Gaon Weibo Chart[84] Gaon Weibo Social Star Award
MelOn Music Awards[85] Best Male Dance Artist ("H.E.R")
16th Mnet Asian Music Awards[86] Best Male Group
Best Music Video ("Jackpot")
Artist of the Year
Nate Awards[87] People's Choice Singer
24th Seoul Music Awards[88] Bonsang Award
Popularity Award
Hallyu Special Award
29th Golden Disk Awards[89] Digital Album Award
Album Award
4th Gaon Chart Awards[90] Hot Trend Awards
2016Japan Gold Disc Award[91] Best New Asian Artist
1st Asia Artist AwardsBest Star Award, Singer
18th Mnet Asian Music Awards[92] Best Male Group
HotelsCombined Artist of the Year
201726th Seoul Music AwardsBonsang Award
Mobile Popularity Award
Maxim K-Model AwardsIdol Icon Award
201827th Seoul Music AwardsBonsang Award
Popularity Award
Hallyu Special Award
32nd Golden Disk Awards[93] Digital Daesang/Song of the Year
Soribada Best K-Music AwardsBonsang Award
Popularity Award (Male)

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Yoon . Hyo-jin . June 16, 2016 . ko:๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ ์†Œ์†์‚ฌ ์„ธ๋ธ์‹œ์ฆŒ์Šคโ†’KQ์—”ํ„ฐํ…Œ์ธ๋จผํŠธ ์‚ฌ๋ช… ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ . Block B's agency changed name from Seven Seasons to KQ Entertainment . https://www.etnews.com/20160616000410 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20161004042949/http://www.etnews.com/20160616000410 . October 4, 2016 . September 24, 2020 . Electronic Times . ko.
  2. Web site: Creating Korea's Eminem Project. Nate. ko. July 13, 2011. December 21, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151221013027/http://news.nate.com/view/20110216n19541. live.
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  9. Web site: ko:๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ "์ „์†๊ณ„์•ฝ ์ทจ์†Œํ•ด๋‹ฌ๋ผ" ์†Œ์†์‚ฌ ์ƒ๋Œ€ ๊ฐ€์ฒ˜๋ถ„ ์‹ ์ฒญ. Nate. http://news.nate.com/view/20130104n06685. ko. January 9, 2013. December 12, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141212230803/http://news.nate.com/view/20130104n06685. live.
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  11. Web site: Block B Agency Stardom Entertainment's Former CEO Commits Suicide In Wake Of Lawsuit. KpopStarz. May 21, 2013 . July 25, 2014. January 28, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150128034506/http://www.kpopstarz.com/articles/28383/20130521/block-b-stardom-entertainment-former-ceo-suicide.htm. live.
  12. Web site: ko:๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„, ์†Œ์†์‚ฌ์— ํŒจ์†Œ... ๋ฒ•์› "์ˆ˜์ž… ์ •์‚ฐ ๋ˆ„๋ฝ ๊ณ ์˜๋กœ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ". Nate. http://news.nate.com/view/20130607n29050. ko. June 7, 2013. December 13, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141213041208/http://news.nate.com/view/20130607n29050. live.
  13. Web site: Newsen . August 29, 2013 . ko:๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„-์Šคํƒ€๋ค, ๊ธด ๋ถ„์Ÿ ์ข…๊ฒฐ '๊ทน์  ํ•ฉ์˜'. http://www.newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=201308290804112410. ko. August 29, 2013. November 3, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131103103455/http://www.newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=201308290804112410. live.
  14. Web site: Newsen . August 29, 2013 . ko:๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ ํ™œ๋™์žฌ๊ฐœ, ์†Œ์†์‚ฌ ๋ถ„์Ÿ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ณ  10์›”์ปด๋ฐฑ ์˜ˆ์ •. http://www.newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=201308290952160910. ko. August 29, 2013. November 3, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131103103402/http://www.newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=201308290952160910. live.
  15. Web site: Block B announces pre-release track "Be The Light" with MV teaser. Allkpop. July 25, 2014. February 24, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140224054437/http://www.allkpop.com/article/2013/09/block-b-announces-pre-release-track-be-the-light-with-mv-teaser. live.
  16. Web site: ko:๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„(block b) _ ๋น›์ด ๋˜์–ด ์ค˜ (Be the light) _ Official _ MV. September 22, 2013 . Seven Seasons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNtuOrw6mfc. November 27, 2016. February 12, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170212020007/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNtuOrw6mfc. live.
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  18. Web site: Kim . Yongho . December 29, 2012 . Block B, Ranked number 10 on Billboared's World Album Chart . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180426144707/http://www.sportsworldi.com/content/html/2012/10/29/20121029021690.html . April 26, 2018 . April 26, 2018 . Sportsworld.
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  24. Web site: Block B Showcase Live in USA. Jazzy Group. July 18, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140727055155/http://www.jazzygroup.com/v2/newspost/block-b-showcase-live-in-usa/. July 27, 2014. dead.
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  43. Web site: Gaon Album Chart April 10-16, 2016. Gaon Chart. October 16, 2016. May 6, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160506003405/http://gaonchart.co.kr/main/section/chart/album.gaon?nationGbn=T&serviceGbn=&targetTime=16&hitYear=2016&termGbn=week. live.
  44. Web site: Gaon Digital Chart April 10-16, 2016. Gaon Chart. October 16, 2016. May 7, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160507112504/http://www.gaonchart.co.kr/main/section/chart/online.gaon?nationGbn=T&serviceGbn=ALL&targetTime=16&hitYear=2016&termGbn=week. live.
  45. Web site: https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=030&aid=0002491554 . ko:๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ ์†Œ์†์‚ฌ ์„ธ๋ธ์‹œ์ฆŒ์Šคโ†’Kq์—”ํ„ฐํ…Œ์ธ๋จผํŠธ ์‚ฌ๋ช… ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ . May 22, 2020 . April 23, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210423075052/https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=030&aid=0002491554 . live .
  46. Web site: [์ด์‚ฌ๋žŒ] "์ด์   '์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ์•„์ด๋Œ'์ด ๋Œ€์„ธ์ฃ ". March 20, 2016.
  47. Web site: Discography Japan Single. Block B Japan. October 16, 2016. ja. October 18, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161018215706/http://www.block-b.jp/discography/single.html. live.
  48. Web site: Block B JAPAN 1st Album ใ‚ฟใ‚คใƒˆใƒซ๏ผ†ๆ–ฐใƒดใ‚ฃใ‚ธใƒฅใ‚ขใƒซ๏ผ†ใ‚ธใƒฃใ‚ฑใƒƒใƒˆๅ†™็œŸ๏ผ†ๅŽ้Œฒๆ›ฒๅŒๆ™‚็™บ่กจ๏ผ๏ผ. Block B Japan. October 16, 2016. ja. December 15, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171215084534/http://www.block-b.jp/news/index.html?news_id=697&cat=5&p=. dead.
  49. Web site: Block B to play London in March as part of 5 date European tour. Beyond Hallyu. December 15, 2016. December 20, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161220054908/http://beyondhallyu.com/k-pop/block-b-to-play-london-in-march-as-part-of-5-date-european-tour/. usurped.
  50. Web site: ๆญŒๅบƒๅ ดๆทณใซใ‚ˆใ‚‹ๅฎŒใบใใชใƒกใƒณใƒใƒผๅˆ†ๆžใคใ๏ผŸ ๅค‰ๅนป่‡ชๅœจใฎ้ญ…ๅŠ›ใง้ญ…ใ›ใ‚‹ๆ—ฅๆœฌ้™ๅฎšใ‚ณใƒฉใƒœไผ็”ปใƒฆใƒ‹ใƒƒใƒˆ Blcok B PROJECT-1ใ€ŒPROJECT-1 EPใ€็™บๅฃฒ่จ˜ๅฟต SHOWCASE ้–‹ๅ‚ฌ. entameclip. September 21, 2017 . ja. September 26, 2017. September 27, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170927121517/https://entameclip.com/news/80260. live.
  51. Block B Announces Comeback Following Success of February Single 'Yesterday'. Billboard. en-US. October 17, 2017. October 18, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171018185719/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/k-town/8005660/block-b-comeback-yesterday-teaser. live.
  52. Web site: ko:[๋‹จ๋…] ๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„, 2018๋…„ 1์›” ์ž ์‹ค ์‹ค๋‚ด์ฒด์œก๊ด€์„œ ๋‹จ๋… ์ฝ˜์„œํŠธ ๊ฐœ์ตœ. http://stoo.asiae.co.kr/news/naver_view.htm?idxno=2017110809265521784. Sports Today. ko. September 26, 2017.
  53. Sony Music and South Korea's KQ Entertainment Strike Global Strategic Partnership. Billboard. November 23, 2017. November 27, 2017. November 23, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171123090922/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/k-town/8046352/sony-music-south-koreas-kq-entertainment-partnership. live.
  54. News: http://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=111&aid=0000507203. ko:[๋‹จ๋…]๋ฐ•๊ฒฝ, ๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ ํ”„๋กœ๋“€์„œ๋กœ ๋‚˜์„ฐ๋‹ค. JoyNews. January 5, 2018. ko. January 6, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180106063533/http://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=111&aid=0000507203. live.
  55. News: [TEN ๋ฎค์ง] "๋– ๋‚˜์ง€๋งˆ์š”"... ๋ฐ•๊ฒฝ่‰ฒ ์ž…์€ ๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„, ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ๋น›๋‚œ 7่‰ฒ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ]. 10 Asia. March 19, 2018. ko. March 20, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180320172230/http://tenasia.hankyung.com/archives/1391374. live.
  56. News: Block B . ko:๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ 7์ธ ์ „์† ๊ณ„์•ฝ ๊ด€๋ จ ์•ˆ๋‚ด ๊ณต์ง€. Seven Seasons. December 20, 2018. ko. November 24, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181124055039/http://sevenseasons.co.kr/notice. live.
  57. Web site: ๋‰ด์Šคํ•Œ . ko:๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ ์žฌํšจ, ๊ตฐ ์ž…๋Œ€ ์ „ ์†ํŽธ์ง€๋กœ ์ธ์‚ฌโ€ฆ"ํ˜„์—ญ ๋ณต๋ฌด ๋ชปํ•ด ์ฃ„์†กํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ". NewsPim. http://www.newspim.com/news/view/20181221000166. December 20, 2018. ko. December 21, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181221051232/http://newspim.com/news/view/20181221000166. live.
  58. Web site: ko:๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ ไธญ ์ฒซ ์ž…๋Œ€...์žฌํšจ, ์˜ค๋Š˜(20์ผ) ์ž…์†Œ. The Fact. http://news.tf.co.kr/read/entertain/1740990.htm. December 20, 2018. ko. December 21, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181221134546/http://news.tf.co.kr/read/entertain/1740990.htm. live. December 20, 2018.
  59. Web site: https://www.sedaily.com/NewsVIew/1VRYXII9GN. ko:[๊ณต์‹์ž…์žฅ] ๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ ์žฌํšจ ์ธก, "๋ณ‘๋ฌด์ฒญ์—์„œ ์‹ ์ฒด๋“ฑ๊ธ‰ 5๊ธ‰์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ‘์—ญ ์ฒ˜๋ถ„". Sedaily. May 20, 2022. ko. December 6, 2019 .
  60. Web site: http://tenasia.hankyung.com/archives/1739850. ko:๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ ํƒœ์ผ, ์˜ค๋Š˜(10์ผ) ์ž…๋Œ€... "์ข€ ์–ด์ƒ‰ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ถฉ์„ฑ" (์ „๋ฌธ). 10 Asia. June 10, 2019. ko. June 14, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190614181757/http://tenasia.hankyung.com/archives/1739850. live.
  61. Web site: https://sports.donga.com/news/article/all/20201204/104287413/1. ko:[์ „๋ฌธ] ๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ ํƒœ์ผ "2021๋…„ 1์›”4์ผ ๋ฏธ๋ณต๊ท€ ์ „์—ญ" (๊ณต์‹). Donga. December 5, 2020. ko. December 4, 2020.
  62. Web site: ko:๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ ๋น„๋ฒ”, ์‹ฑ๊ธ€ ๋ฐœํ‘œโ†’10์›” 10์ผ ์ž…๋Œ€ '์˜๊ฒฝ๋ณต๋ฌด'. X Sports News. http://www.xportsnews.com/?ac=article_view&entry_id=1175160. September 27, 2019. ko. April 29, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210429052020/https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.js. live.
  63. Web site: https://n.news.naver.com/entertain/article/408/0000082859 . ko:๋ฐ•๊ฒฝ, '28.12ยฐC-๋ฐ•๊ฒฝ์˜ ๋ฉœ๋กœ๋””' ํ† ํฌ ์ฝ˜์„œํŠธโ€ฆ ํŒฌ๋“ค๊ณผ 2019๋…„ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์ถ”์–ต ์Œ“๊ธฐ . April 26, 2021 . April 29, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210429052011/https://n.news.naver.com/entertain/article/408/0000082859 . live .
  64. Web site: https://entertain.v.daum.net/v/20200508085705490. ko:๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ ์œ ๊ถŒ, 18์ผ ์œก๊ตฐ ํ˜„์—ญ ์ž…๋Œ€..ํƒœ์ผยท๋น„๋ฒ” ์ด์–ด ์„ธ ๋ฒˆ์งธ [๊ณต์‹์ž…์žฅ]. . May 5, 2020. ko. April 29, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210429052037/https://entertain.v.daum.net/v/20200508085705490. live.
  65. News: https://www.donga.com/news/Entertainment/article/all/20200721/102090413/2. ko:๊ฐ€์ˆ˜ ์ง€์ฝ”, 7์›” 30์ผ ์ž…๋Œ€...์‚ฌํšŒ๋ณต๋ฌด์š”์›์œผ๋กœ ๊ทผ๋ฌด. Donga. July 21, 2020 . July 21, 2020. ko.
  66. Web site: [Pop์ด์Šˆ]"๋” ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ๋ชจ์Šต์œผ๋กœ ์ฐพ์•„๋ต ๊ฒƒ" ๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ ํƒœ์ผ, ์˜ค๋Š˜(4์ผ) ๋ฏธ๋ณต๊ท€ ์ „์—ญ. January 4, 2021.
  67. Web site: ko:๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ ๋น„๋ฒ”, ์˜ค๋Š˜(17์ผ) ์˜๊ฒฝ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ํœด๊ฐ€..๋ฏธ๋ณต๊ท€ ์ „์—ญ[๊ณต์‹]. Star News. https://star.mt.co.kr/stview.php?no=2021041709385472691&VBC. April 18, 2021. ko. April 17, 2021 .
  68. Web site: https://entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=117&aid=0003542388. Kang Da-yoon. ko:๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ ์œ ๊ถŒ, ๋ฏธ๋ณต๊ท€ ์ „์—ญ ์ „ ๋ง๋…„ ํœด๊ฐ€โ€ฆํƒœ์ผ "์ œ๋ฒ• ๋ฏผ๊ฐ„์ธ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ?. Block B's U-Kwon, non-returning vacation before discharge... Taeil: "You look like a civilian, don't you?. My Daily. . October 6, 2021. October 6, 2021. ko.
  69. Web site: SPOTVNEWS . ko:[๋‹จ๋…]๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ ํ”ผ์˜ค, ์„ธ๋ธ์‹œ์ฆŒ์Šค ๋– ๋‚œ๋‹คโ€ฆ8๋…„ ๊ณ„์•ฝ ๋งˆ์นจํ‘œ. http://www.spotvnews.co.kr/?mod=news&act=articleView&idxno=441851. September 11, 2021. ko. September 11, 2021 .
  70. Web site: https://entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=477&aid=0000326034. Shim Eom-kyung. ko:ํ”ผ์˜ค, ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ์ปดํผ๋‹ˆ์™€ ์ „์†๊ณ„์•ฝโ€ฆ์ •์šฐ์„ฑยท์ด์ •์žฌ ํ•œ์†ฅ๋ฐฅ[๊ณต์‹]. P.O signed an exclusive contract with Artist Company... Woo-sung Jung, Jeong-jae Lee One Pot Rice [Official]. Spotify News. . October 29, 2021. October 29, 2021. ko.
  71. Web site: https://entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=109&aid=0004554803 . Yeon Hwi-seon. ko:ํ”ผ์˜ค ์ธก "3์›” 28์ผ ํ•ด๋ณ‘๋Œ€ ์ž…๋Œ€, ์ž…์†Œ ์ผ์ • ๋น„๊ณต๊ฐœ" [๊ณต์‹์ž…์žฅ]. P.O's side "Marine enlistment on March 28, enlistment schedule not disclosed" [Official position]. . Naver. February 10, 2022. February 10, 2022. ko.
  72. Web site: ๊น€์˜๊ธธ . ํ•œ๊ตญ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด๋‰ด์Šคํ†ต์‹  . https://www.kmunews.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=19359. ko:ํ”ผ์˜ค, ์˜ˆ๋Šฅ์ดฌ์˜์žฅ ์•„๋‹Œ '์ง„์งœํ•ด๋ณ‘๋Œ€ํ›ˆ๋ จ' ์ค‘ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง„ ๋ชจ์Šต. May 14, 2022 . KMU News. May 20, 2022. ko.
  73. Web site: Sun Mi-kyung. April 29, 2022. ko:์ง€์ฝ”, ์˜ค๋Š˜(29์ผ) ์†Œ์ง‘ํ•ด์ œโ€ฆ์‹ธ์ด ํ˜‘์—…์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ๋™ ์žฌ๊ฐœ[๊ณต์‹]. Zico, canceled today (29th)... Resuming activities with Psy collaboration [Official]. https://n.news.naver.com/entertain/article/109/0004603437. April 29, 2022. . Naver. ko.
  74. Web site: Block B's P.O. officially discharged from military . 2024-08-31 . . en.
  75. Web site: https://www.news1.kr/entertain/celebrity-topic/5518198. Hwang Mi-hyeon. ko:๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ ์™„์ „์ฒด, ์ง€์ฝ” ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ญ‰์นœ๋‹คโ€ฆ'๋” ์‹œ์ฆŒ์ฆˆ' ๋ง‰๋ฐฉ ์ถœ๊ฒฉ. August 22, 2024. news1. August 22, 2024. ko.
  76. Web site: 27th Golden Disk Awards. en, ko. December 11, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121210021825/http://kpopwave.joinsmsn.com/awards/27goldendisk/en/nominate.aspx?ptab_idx=5&pr_idx=star&#main_menu. December 10, 2012. usurped.
  77. Web site: MTV Best of The Best Awards. en, ko. December 6, 2012. July 15, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150715114843/http://www.mtv.co.kr/mini/best-of-the-best. live.
  78. Web site: 22nd Seoul Music Awards. ko. May 3, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160308230540/http://seoulmusicawards.com/vote/vote.asp?flag=qki=. March 8, 2016. dead.
  79. Web site: 2013 SBS MTV Best of the Best โ€“ MTV Korea. mtv.co.kr. April 29, 2021. October 27, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171027125821/http://www.mtv.co.kr/mini/2013-best-of-the-best. live.
  80. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmc_BaPtdiw&feature=youtube_gdata_playeSBS. ko:๋ฒ„๋ฒ ๋‚˜_HD 131218 K-Star news Best K Pop Awards 2013 ๋น„ํˆฌ๋น„ ๋ฏผํ˜&์ผํ›ˆ. December 19, 2013. YouTube.
  81. Web site: http://www.nate.com/mainevent/endyearevent/view.asp?seq=17. ko:๋„ค์ดํŠธ. Nate.
  82. Web site: The 28th GOLDEN DISK AWARDS. joins.com. December 12, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20180226032105/http://isplus.live.joins.com/award/28goldendisk/en/index.aspx#main_menu. February 26, 2018. dead.
  83. Web site: http://seoulmusicawards.com/ . ko:์ œ24ํšŒ ์„œ์šธ๊ฐ€์š”๋Œ€์ƒ . seoulmusicawards.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131214235343/http://www.seoulmusicawards.com/ . December 14, 2013.
  84. Web site: EXO, Super Junior, CNBLUE, Girl's Day, Block B, and AOA are the first winners of the Gaon Weibo Chart. Allkpop. July 16, 2014. June 2, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160602132144/http://www.allkpop.com/article/2014/07/exo-super-junior-cnblue-girls-day-block-b-and-aoa-are-the-first-winners-of-the-gaon-weibo-chart. live.
  85. Web site: MelOn Music Awards. Melon. November 14, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20141029195847/http://awards.melon.com/award/main/timeline.htm. October 29, 2014. dead.
  86. Web site: 2014 MAMA Vote โ€“ Mnet Asian Music Awards. Mnet Asian Music Awards. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141027134247/http://mama.interest.me/2014mama/vote. October 27, 2014.
  87. Web site: god-์•„์ด์œ -๋น„์ŠคํŠธ-์ธํ”ผ๋‹ˆํŠธ-์—‘์†Œ-์œ„๋„ˆ-์”จ์Šคํƒ€-๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„, '2014 ๋„ค์ดํŠธ์–ด์›Œ์ฆˆ' ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€์ˆ˜์ƒ ํˆฌํ‘œ ์ค‘. topstarnews. April 26, 2018. April 29, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210429052022/https://comm.news.nate.com/error.html#08e1. live.
  88. Web site: http://awards.sportsseoul.com/. ko:์ œ24ํšŒ ์„œ์šธ๊ฐ€์š”๋Œ€์ƒ. . November 27, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20100125151633/http://awards.sportsseoul.com/. January 25, 2010. dead.
  89. http://isplus.live.joins.com/award/29goldendisk/en/nominate.aspx#main_menu 29th Golden Disk Awards
  90. Web site: http://media.daum.net/entertain/culture/newsview?newsid=20150128191209897. ko:๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ 'ํ•ซํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์ƒ' ์ˆ˜์ƒ "๋น„๋น„์”จ ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ์š”" ํŒฌ ํ–ฅํ•œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์ธ์‚ฌ (๊ฐ€์˜จ์ฐจํŠธ ์–ด์›Œ๋“œ). Daum ์—ฐ์˜ˆ. January 28, 2015. March 5, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305072242/http://media.daum.net/entertain/culture/newsview?newsid=20150128191209897. live.
  91. Web site: Japan Gold Disc Award 2016. February 27, 2016. December 15, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171215084436/http://www.oeker.net/bbs/board.php?bo_table=japan&wr_id=2357294. live.
  92. Web site: 2016 MAMA Vote โ€“ Mnet Asian Music Awards. October 30, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161029164131/http://mama.mwave.me/nominees. October 29, 2016. dead.
  93. Web site: 32nd Golden Disk Awards. December 11, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20161205111704/http://isplus.live.joins.com/goldendisc/en/candidate. December 5, 2016. dead.

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