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79-549: JYP Entertainment Corporation ( Korean :  JYP 엔터테인먼트 ) is a South Korean multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate founded in 1997 by J. Y. Park . Operating as a record label, talent agency, music production company, event management company, concert production company and music publishing house, it is one of the largest entertainment companies in South Korea. The company also operates subsidiary ventures and divisions internationally. JYP Entertainment

158-455: A 10-year-old JYP Chinese trainee went to China to record a roadshow-style audition show to recruit more trainees with the goal of creating a hip-hop oriented Chinese boy group. The name of the show was Guaishushu Is Coming , and the concept was to travel across different cities with large-scale auditions and then have a final round to select the members who will be trained in Korea. NCC Entertainment

237-484: A Korean influence on Khitan. The hypothesis that Korean could be related to Japanese has had some supporters due to some overlap in vocabulary and similar grammatical features that have been elaborated upon by such researchers as Samuel E. Martin and Roy Andrew Miller . Sergei Starostin (1991) found about 25% of potential cognates in the Japanese–Korean 100-word Swadesh list . Some linguists concerned with

316-477: A core vowel. The IPA symbol ⟨ ◌͈ ⟩ ( U+0348 ◌͈ COMBINING DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE BELOW ) is used to denote the tensed consonants /p͈/, /t͈/, /k͈/, /t͡ɕ͈/, /s͈/ . Its official use in the extensions to the IPA is for "strong" articulation, but is used in the literature for faucalized voice . The Korean consonants also have elements of stiff voice , but it is not yet known how typical this

395-447: A division under JYP Entertainment. Artists under JYP Publishing, a division under JYP Entertainment. Former groups signed to JYP Entertainment, which had all their members leave the company. Former artists signed to JYP Entertainment as a group member, with their respective group still under the company as an active group. Korean language Korean ( South Korean : 한국어 , Hanguk-eo ; North Korean : 조선어 , Chosŏnŏ )

474-400: A joint venture with SM Entertainment , YG Entertainment , Star Empire Entertainment , Media Line, CAN Entertainment and Music Factory Entertainment to establish KMP Holdings, the official distributor of releases from these companies. On December 28, 2010, JYP Entertainment became the largest shareholder of J. Tune Entertainment . The subsidiary AQ Entertainment was later formed and introduced

553-455: A joint venture with Sony Records Japan. Both groups released their debut single in 2024. In August 2024, Innit Entertainment was established – the company's management subsidiary for actors and artists. On November 22, JYP announced the launch date of their upcoming boy group named KickFlip, consisting of a total of 7 members. JYP Entertainment's records are distributed worldwide by The Orchard since March 2019. In March 2010, KMP Holdings

632-541: A later founder effect diminished the internal variety of both language families. Since the establishment of two independent governments, North–South differences have developed in standard Korean, including variations in pronunciation and vocabulary chosen. However, these minor differences can be found in any of the Korean dialects , which are still largely mutually intelligible . The Chinese language , written with Chinese characters and read with Sino-Xenic pronunciations ,

711-504: A long-time trainee in America, also made a cameo appearance in the music video, and joined the group for their South Korean debut in April 2010. Miss A made their official debut in South Korea as a four-member group on July 1 with their single " Bad Girl Good Girl ." The song was taken from their debut single album Bad but Good . Miss A received first place in the on KBS Music Bank , becoming

790-683: A member, who was placed in Wonder Girls soon before Miss A's debut in order to replace Sunmi . In March 2010, fifteen-year-old trainee Bae Suzy joined the group which, then a trio became known as 'Miss A'. The group signed with the Samsung Electronics group in China and released a song used for the commercial called "Love Again" for the Samsung Beat Festival. Lee Min Young , a solo artist and

869-433: A new music platform Flo, which will utilize various new technologies such as artificial intelligence and 5G networking. SK Telecom affiliate Iriver Inc would be responsible for handling the music distribution. In the first half of 2018, JYP Entertainment became the second largest entertainment company in South Korea, mainly due to the success of Twice and Got7 . On March 26, a new boy group Stray Kids debuted, named after

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948-562: A possible relationship.) Hudson & Robbeets (2020) suggested that there are traces of a pre- Nivkh substratum in Korean. According to the hypothesis, ancestral varieties of Nivkh (also known as Amuric ) were once distributed on the Korean Peninsula before the arrival of Koreanic speakers. Korean syllable structure is (C)(G)V(C), consisting of an optional onset consonant, glide /j, w, ɰ/ and final coda /p, t, k, m, n, ŋ, l/ surrounding

1027-559: A promotional song for Yuna Kim 's ice show, and Miss A performed the song at the opening of "All That Skate Spring 2011". Miss A announced their comeback with their first full album called A Class , which was released digitally on July 18, 2011. A Class consists of a mix of previously released hits and four new tracks, including the single "Good Bye Baby". The album has 13 songs. They started promoting "Good Bye Baby" on July 21, 2011, on M.net's M! Countdown , followed by KBS's Music Bank , MBC's Show! Music Core , and SBS's Inkigayo . On

1106-659: Is a jointly produced management team by Tencent Music Corporation and JYP Beijing Cultural Exchange Ltd located in Beijing, China. It is working to promote its Chinese artists more, despite the ban placed on Korean entertainment and to further promote the Chinese boy group, Boy Story in China. During the COVID-19 pandemic , JYP Entertainment donated US$ 410 thousand to the Community Chest of South Korea on February 28, 2020. On March 8, 2022,

1185-603: Is also generated by longstanding alliances, military involvement, and diplomacy, such as between South Korea–United States and China–North Korea since the end of World War II and the Korean War . Along with other languages such as Chinese and Arabic , Korean is ranked at the top difficulty level for English speakers by the United States Department of Defense . Modern Korean descends from Middle Korean , which in turn descends from Old Korean , which descends from

1264-656: Is an agglutinative language . The Korean language is traditionally considered to have nine parts of speech . Modifiers generally precede the modified words, and in the case of verb modifiers, can be serially appended. The sentence structure or basic form of a Korean sentence is subject–object–verb (SOV), but the verb is the only required and immovable element and word order is highly flexible, as in many other agglutinative languages. Question 가게에 gage-e store- LOC 가셨어요? ga-syeo-sseo-yo go- HON . PAST - CONJ - POL 가게에 가셨어요? gage-e ga-syeo-sseo-yo store-LOC go-HON.PAST-CONJ-POL 'Did [you] go to

1343-511: Is closer to a near-open central vowel ( [ɐ] ), though ⟨a⟩ is still used for tradition. Grammatical morphemes may change shape depending on the preceding sounds. Examples include -eun/-neun ( -은/-는 ) and -i/-ga ( -이/-가 ). Sometimes sounds may be inserted instead. Examples include -eul/-reul ( -을/-를 ), -euro/-ro ( -으로/-로 ), -eseo/-seo ( -에서/-서 ), -ideunji/-deunji ( -이든지/-든지 ) and -iya/-ya ( -이야/-야 ). Some verbs may also change shape morphophonemically. Korean

1422-399: Is mainly reserved for specific circumstances such as newspapers, scholarly papers and disambiguation. Today Hanja is largely unused in everyday life but is still important for historical and linguistic studies. The Korean names for the language are based on the names for Korea used in both South Korea and North Korea. The English word "Korean" is derived from Goryeo , which is thought to be

1501-399: Is of faucalized consonants. They are produced with a partially constricted glottis and additional subglottal pressure in addition to tense vocal tract walls, laryngeal lowering, or other expansion of the larynx. /s/ is aspirated [sʰ] and becomes an alveolo-palatal [ɕʰ] before [j] or [i] for most speakers (but see North–South differences in the Korean language ). This occurs with

1580-534: Is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent. It is the national language of both North Korea and South Korea . Beyond Korea, the language is recognized as a minority language in parts of China , namely Jilin , and specifically Yanbian Prefecture , and Changbai County . It is also spoken by Sakhalin Koreans in parts of Sakhalin , the Russian island just north of Japan, and by

1659-716: Is well attested in Western Old Japanese and Northern Ryukyuan languages , in Eastern Old Japanese it only occurs in compounds, and it is only present in three dialects of the Southern Ryukyuan language group . Also, the doublet wo meaning "hemp" is attested in Western Old Japanese and Southern Ryukyuan languages. It is thus plausible to assume a borrowed term. (See Classification of the Japonic languages or Comparison of Japanese and Korean for further details on

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1738-511: The Koryo-saram in parts of Central Asia . The language has a few extinct relatives which—along with the Jeju language (Jejuan) of Jeju Island and Korean itself—form the compact Koreanic language family . Even so, Jejuan and Korean are not mutually intelligible . The linguistic homeland of Korean is suggested to be somewhere in contemporary Manchuria . The hierarchy of the society from which

1817-523: The yangban aristocracy, who looked down upon it too easy to learn. However, it gained widespread use among the common class and was widely used to print popular novels which were enjoyed by the common class. Since few people could understand official documents written in classical Chinese, Korean kings sometimes released public notices entirely written in Hangul as early as the 16th century for all Korean classes, including uneducated peasants and slaves. By

1896-631: The Creative Artists Agency included JYP Entertainment in its roster of high-profile clientele. Expanding its endeavors into the drama production industry following in the footsteps of SM Entertainment Group's SM C&C and CJ E&M's Studio Dragon – JYP Entertainment jointly established the television drama production company Holym with Key East Entertainment in June 2009. Holym later announced its first major television drama production, Dream High , in 2010. In March 2010, JYP Entertainment made

1975-492: The Gaon Digital Chart , which made them the first act ever to have their debut song reach the top of the chart; the song also became the best-performing single of 2010 on the chart. Their debut studio album, A Class (2011) produced two more number one songs, and their follow-up extended plays, Touch and Independent Women Part III (both 2012), proved furthermore success. Their second studio album, Hush (2013),

2054-570: The Proto-Koreanic language , which is generally suggested to have its linguistic homeland somewhere in Manchuria . Whitman (2012) suggests that the proto-Koreans, already present in northern Korea, expanded into the southern part of the Korean Peninsula at around 300 BC and coexisted with the descendants of the Japonic Mumun cultivators (or assimilated them). Both had influence on each other and

2133-557: The Three Kingdoms of Korea (not the ancient confederacies in the southern Korean Peninsula), while " -eo " and " -mal " mean "language" and "speech", respectively. Korean is also simply referred to as guk-eo , literally "national language". This name is based on the same Han characters ( 國語 "nation" + "language") that are also used in Taiwan and Japan to refer to their respective national languages. In North Korea and China ,

2212-674: The Touch album in Hong Kong and Taiwan. This album contains the Korean and Chinese version of "Touch" and also the music videos under the DVD version. After the release, "Touch" immediately topped Chinese online charts. The group wrapped up their promotions for the album by performing "Over U", another song from the album, on each music program during their last week. On October 8, 2012, Miss A announced their comeback with their fifth project album entitled Independent Women Part III . The five-track mini-album

2291-405: The non-listed JYP was announced. The merger was approved on October 17. Miss A and Baek A-yeon , also joined JYP Entertainment due to the merger. On August 25, 2013, JYP Entertainment and KeyEast terminated their joint production enterprise, Holym. On November 17, 2013, the company partnered with Smilegate to promote the video game game Crossfire , with 2PM and Miss A . In January 2014,

2370-814: The 17th century, the yangban had exchanged Hangul letters with slaves, which suggests a high literacy rate of Hangul during the Joseon era. In the context of growing Korean nationalism in the 19th century, the Gabo Reform of 1894 abolished the Confucian examinations and decreed that government documents would be issued in Hangul instead of literary Chinese. Some newspapers were published entirely in Hangul, but other publications used Korean mixed script , with Hanja for Sino-Korean vocabulary and Hangul for other elements. North Korea abolished Hanja in writing in 1949, but continues to teach them in schools. Their usage in South Korea

2449-599: The 2017 reality show of the same title. In May, the company became the sole South Korean entertainment company to rank in Financial Times magazine's "FT 1000: High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific" list. On August 30, the company's shares closed at 31,300 KRW, pushing the company's market capitalization to 1.09 trillion KRW. On January 21, 2019, JYP Entertainment announced its next girl group, Itzy . The group released their debut single album, It'z Different in February, featuring

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2528-408: The 20th century. The script uses 24 basic letters ( jamo ) and 27 complex letters formed from the basic ones. When first recorded in historical texts, Korean was only a spoken language . Since the turn of the 21st century, aspects of Korean culture have spread to other countries through globalization and cultural exports . As such, interest in Korean language acquisition (as a foreign language )

2607-464: The Champion Song on MBC MUSIC's Show Champion with the song "Touch". On March 1, Touch also went to #1 on M.net M! Countdown . On March 4, they won Mutizen on SBS's Inkigayo with Touch . On March 7 Miss A won on jTBC Music On Top . On March 22, popular Chinese video sharing site YinYueTai revealed Miss A's Chinese music video for "Touch". On March 23, Miss A released a Chinese version of

2686-559: The Chinese-Korean girl group Miss A . In November 2011, the American based subsidiary JYP Creative was established. Park invested approximately US$ 1.2 million in the branch. After a year of operation, the company saw a net loss of around US$ 1.5 million by the end of 2012, leading to the liquidation and closure of the branch, including the New York branch. The same year, Park Jimin , winner of

2765-569: The Past Decade" list. Member Jia left the group in May 2016, while member Min left the group in November 2017. In December 2017, JYP officially announced that Miss A has disbanded. Originally, the group consisted of five trainees who were formed by JYP Entertainment in 2010. They first appeared in Chinese variety shows performing dance routines and songs as the "Chinese Wonder Girls," with Woo Hyerim as

2844-711: The South Korean music industry. Together with parent company SK Telecom and music labels SM Entertainment, JYP Entertainment and Big Hit Entertainment , the company launched a new online music store, FLO, in the second half of 2018. On April 5, 2017, Ocean Music and JYP Entertainment jointly established the Beijing Xin Sheng Entertainment Co., Ltd. for indoor recreational facilities operation, organization of cultural and artistic exchanges, film and television planning, and other aspects of cooperation. A few months later, Park Jin-young , Jackson Wang , Fei and

2923-493: The agreement, the company would be carrying out various social responsibility activities with its artists, employees and fans in order to support campaigns and initiatives for children with incurable diseases. On July 24, JYP Entertainment announced the closure of their acting division and would jointly manage its actors with the new start-up company, Npio Entertainment – created by JYP Entertainment Vice President – Pyo Jong-rok. Actors Jang Hee-ryung , Park Si-eun and Ryu Won left

3002-455: The beginnings of words. /l/ becomes alveolar flap [ɾ] between vowels, and [l] or [ɭ] at the end of a syllable or next to another /l/ . A written syllable-final ' ㄹ ', when followed by a vowel or a glide ( i.e. , when the next character starts with ' ㅇ '), migrates to the next syllable and thus becomes [ɾ] . Traditionally, /l/ was disallowed at the beginning of a word. It disappeared before [j] , and otherwise became /n/ . However,

3081-618: The company formed its first girl group, Wonder Girls , who became a commercial success and was the first South Korean group to enter the Billboard Hot 100 in 2009, with their song " Nobody ". Their success lead to a management deal with the Jonas Group , which led the group to open the Jonas Brothers ' world tour in select cities. In 2007, Rain left JYP Entertainment and established his own agency called J. Tune Entertainment . In 2008,

3160-603: The company made a donation ₩ 300 million to the Hope Bridge Disaster Relief Association, to help the victims of the massive wildfire that started in Uljin, Gyeongbuk which had spread to Samcheok, Gangwon. On February 12, 2023, the company donated 500 million won through World Vision International , to help the aftermath of the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes . Artists under JYP Entertainment are collectively known as "JYP Nation". Actors under Npio Entertainment,

3239-509: The company's first boy group was a four-member vocal oriented group Noel which failed to attract popularity. The company then turned its focus towards the duo brothers One Two in 2003. In 2004, after the boy band g.o.d 's group contract with SidusHQ ended, they signed a contract with JYP Entertainment. Other notable artists that debuted under JYP Entertainment, from the years 2000 to 2005 include Park Ji-yoon , Byul , Lim Jeong-hee, Ryanga Rhanga  [ ko ] , and Ivy . In May 2006,

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3318-507: The company, because of their contract expiration, while Jo Kwon renewed his contract. The company stated 2AM remained intact and would be promoting as a group. On April 15, the company signed a contract with Jax Coco, a Hong Kong-based coconut product company. Both companies planned to launch coconut oil, coconut flakes, and other related products at major department stores and supermarkets in South Korea. In September, rock band Day6 debuted. In October, girl group Twice debuted. The members of

3397-567: The company. Actors Yoon Park , Shin Eun-soo , Kang Hoon , Shin Ye-eun , Kim Dong-hee and Lee Chan-sun stayed in the company for the remainder of their contract periods. On January 6, 2020, Shinhan Card collaborated with JYP Entertainment to release four "JYP Fan's EDM Check Cards" – JYP, Got7, Day6 and Twice . Certain percentages of the amount used when making payments using the check cards were to be donated to Make-A-Wish Korea. On February 24, Twice

3476-400: The company. In December, Jinni both left the company and the group Nmixx, due to personal reasons. In 2023, the competition show A2K and the second season of Nizi Project both aired. A2K led to the formation of the group Vcha , a joint venture between JYP Entertainment and Republic Records. In the second season of Nizi Project , it concluded with the line up for the group Nexz –

3555-407: The competitive TV series K-pop Star and Baek Yerin , a female trainee and contestant on the show Star King , debuted as the duo 15& . In 2012, JYP Pictures signed a contract with China Eastern Performing Arts Group to co-produce a movie Hold Your Hand , featuring actors who were signed to JYP Entertainment. On June 20, 2013, the merger plan for the publicly listed JYP Entertainment and

3634-521: The competitive reality series Hot Blood Men was created, pitting two teams of male trainees against each other for the chance to debut. The winning group, One Day, was later split into two boy bands, 2PM and 2AM . Both debuted in the same year. 2AM was jointly contracted with Big Hit Entertainment . Later in October, the JYP Beijing Center was opened, as the company's China branch. In that same year,

3713-532: The country. In July 2017, JYP Entertainment acquired a property worth 20.2 billion KRW in Seongnae-dong , Gangdong District , Seoul to be used as its new office. A partnership with Dailymotion , Europe's largest video platform, was signed to open its artist channel on its platform to secure a more global fan base. On January 31, 2018, JYP Entertainment entered into a music business agreement with SM Entertainment, Big Hit Entertainment , and SK Telecom to launch

3792-490: The duo Homme . In August, JYP Pictures and Dongyang World Culture Communication produced the drama Dream Knight , starring Got7 members. Season three K-pop Star winner Bernard Park signed a contract with JYP Entertainment to start his solo career, and making his debut on October 6. On December 17, J.Y. Park sold the company's headquarters building in Cheongdam-dong , Seoul to Choi Ki-won, for approximately $ 7 million, on

3871-545: The fastest girl group to take the #1 spot on a music show. The group also consequently got first place program Inkigayo from the SBS . On August 1, 2010, Miss A received their first "Mutizen" award on M.net 's M! Countdown . The song stayed as the number 1 song for four straight weeks, breaking the previous record set by Girls' Generation . The group later on made their comeback with their second single album called " Step Up " on September 26. The group promoted " Breathe " as

3950-399: The first Korean dynasty known to Western nations. Korean people in the former USSR refer to themselves as Koryo-saram or Koryo-in (literally, " Koryo/Goryeo persons"), and call the language Koryo-mal' . Some older English sources also use the spelling "Corea" to refer to the nation, and its inflected form for the language, culture and people, "Korea" becoming more popular in

4029-533: The following week of promotions, they won all awards from the shows. On September 30 of the same year, Miss A debuted in China with the release of a special edition of their first full album, containing a DVD with music videos, as well as Chinese versions of "Bad Girl Good Girl", "Breathe", "Good Bye Baby" and "Love Again". After the Chinese album release, it ranked #3 on Taiwan's G-Music Chart. Miss A announced their comeback in Korea with an EP called Touch , released on February 20, 2012. On February 19, 2012,

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4108-570: The formation of g.o.d, which would make their debut appearance on January 13, 1999. The group was managed by SidusHQ, with their first album, Chapter 1 , being produced by Park. In December 2000, JYP Entertainment signed Rain as a trainee, who made his debut two years later in May 2002. Rain would then rise to become a commercial success throughout and beyond Asia, which was seen when his third studio album, It's Raining , went on to record cumulative sales of over 1 million copies in seven Asian countries, including South Korea. On December 27, 2002,

4187-511: The group were chosen from the competitive reality show Sixteen . In February 2016, JYP Entertainment established a music distribution partnership with China Music Corporation. It was followed by JYP Entertainment jointly establishing Beijing Xin Sheng Entertainment Co. Ltd. with Tencent Music in the same year, which oversaw the debut of the Chinese boy band Boy Story . Got7 member Jackson Wang also announced his solo endeavors in

4266-479: The inflow of western loanwords changed the trend, and now word-initial /l/ (mostly from English loanwords) are pronounced as a free variation of either [ɾ] or [l] . All obstruents (plosives, affricates, fricatives) at the end of a word are pronounced with no audible release , [p̚, t̚, k̚] . Plosive sounds /p, t, k/ become nasals [m, n, ŋ] before nasal sounds. Hangul spelling does not reflect these assimilatory pronunciation rules, but rather maintains

4345-523: The internationally through The Orchard in order to "expand the label's presence around the world." On June 8, Fanling Culture Media trainee Yao Chen placed 5th in the finale of Produce Camp 2019 has made the final lineup of project group R1SE . The group made their debut on the same day. On June 17, JYP and Make-A-Wish Korea signed a memorandum of understanding to help support children's wishes under JYP Entertainment's "Every Dream Matters!" campaign as part of their corporate social responsibility . Under

4424-408: The issue between Japanese and Korean, including Alexander Vovin, have argued that the indicated similarities are not due to any genetic relationship , but rather to a sprachbund effect and heavy borrowing, especially from Ancient Korean into Western Old Japanese . A good example might be Middle Korean sàm and Japanese asá , meaning " hemp ". This word seems to be a cognate, but although it

4503-618: The language is most often called Joseon-mal , or more formally, Joseon-o . This is taken from the North Korean name for Korea (Joseon), a name retained from the Joseon dynasty until the proclamation of the Korean Empire , which in turn was annexed by the Empire of Japan . In mainland China , following the establishment of diplomatic relations with South Korea in 1992, the term Cháoxiǎnyǔ or

4582-466: The language originates deeply influences the language, leading to a system of speech levels and honorifics indicative of the formality of any given situation. Modern Korean is written in the Korean script ( 한글 ; Hangeul in South Korea, 조선글 ; Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea), a system developed during the 15th century for that purpose, although it did not become the primary script until

4661-451: The late 1800s. In South Korea the Korean language is referred to by many names including hanguk-eo ("Korean language"), hanguk-mal ("Korean speech") and uri-mal ("our language"); " hanguk " is taken from the name of the Korean Empire ( 대한제국 ; 大韓帝國 ; Daehan Jeguk ). The " han " ( 韓 ) in Hanguk and Daehan Jeguk is derived from Samhan , in reference to

4740-404: The lead single for the single album and showed an "exotic and [...] doll-like transformation" that was completely different from their debut EP. The first performance was on M! Countdown on October 7. The group received first place on M! Countdown in the last week of October. In May 2011, Miss A released "Love Alone", a single from their unreleased album A Class . "Love Alone" was used as

4819-405: The market cap of JYP Entertainment had rose from 1.33 trillion KRW in the previous year to 2.24 trillion KRW, an increase of 1 trillion KRW in the first three months of 2022. The company's stock prices soared to 66,200 KRW on April 8, surpassing company's record. On July 12, all members of Twice renewed their contracts with the company. On September 26, all members of Day6 renewed their contracts with

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4898-421: The music video was uploaded to YouTube through Miss A's official channel and gained over one million views in one day. Touch , both the song and the album, peaked at #2 on Gaon Chart Digital Singles and Physical Albums rankings for the 4th week of February. Miss A started their promotions for Touch on February 23 on M.net 's M! Countdown and on other music shows respectively. On February 29, Miss A won

4977-459: The population was illiterate. In the 15th century King Sejong the Great personally developed an alphabetic featural writing system , known today as Hangul , to promote literacy among the common people. Introduced in the document Hunminjeongeum , it was called eonmun ('colloquial script') and quickly spread nationwide to increase literacy in Korea. The Korean alphabet was denounced by

5056-477: The season finale of Nizi Project , the line-up for the new girl group, NiziU , was revealed. The group is a partnership with Sony Music Entertainment Japan , for its activities in Japan. The group made their debut on December 2, 2020. On March 11, 2019, JYP Entertainment made a partnership with Sony Music Entertainment's The Orchard . JYP Entertainment would distribute both digital and physical releases to key markets in

5135-562: The second season of Nizi Project was announced as a Global Boys Audition. On November 1, JYP Entertainment announced its new rock band Xdinary Heroes . The band released their debut single " Happy Death Day " on December 6. On January 26, 2022, a new girl group Nmixx was announced for a February 22 debut, with their debut single album, Ad Mare . After Twice's success in the U.S., JYP Entertainment expanded their partnership with Republic Records in February, by signing both Stray Kids and Itzy under Republic Records for promotions. In April,

5214-464: The seven talent agencies behind KMP Holdings formed a collective bond partnership and bought 13.48% of KT Music 's stocks, leaving KT Corporation with 49.99%. In the same month, Got7 , made their debut. 2AM's joint contract of Big Hit Entertainment with JYP Entertainment later in April ended, after three of the 2AM members returned to JYP Entertainment, and member Lee Chang-min stayed with Big Hit Entertainment, to continue his career and as part of

5293-660: The short form Cháoyǔ has normally been used to refer to the standard language of North Korea and Yanbian , whereas Hánguóyǔ or the short form Hányǔ is used to refer to the standard language of South Korea. Korean is a member of the Koreanic family along with the Jeju language . Some linguists have included it in the Altaic family, but the core Altaic proposal itself has lost most of its prior support. The Khitan language has several vocabulary items similar to Korean that are not found in other Mongolian or Tungusic languages, suggesting

5372-402: The single "Dalla Dalla". On January 24, the program Super Intern premiered on Mnet, which featured the internship process at JYP Entertainment, with the goal of turning the interns into permanent marketing management staff. The show premiered on Mnet on January 24. On January 29, plans of creating a Japanese girl group, under their vision "JYP 2.0: Globalization By Localization" was announced. On

5451-456: The store?' Response 예/네. ye/ne AFF Miss A Miss A ( Korean :  미쓰에이 ; stylized in all caps or miss A ) was a South Korean girl group formed by AQ Entertainment, a subsidiary of JYP Entertainment . The group debuted in July 2010 with the single " Bad Girl Good Girl " as a quartet consisting of Fei , Jia , Min , and Suzy . Their debut song reached number one on

5530-441: The tense fricative and all the affricates as well. At the end of a syllable, /s/ changes to /t/ (example: beoseot ( 버섯 ) 'mushroom'). /h/ may become a bilabial [ɸ] before [o] or [u] , a palatal [ç] before [j] or [i] , a velar [x] before [ɯ] , a voiced [ɦ] between voiced sounds, and a [h] elsewhere. /p, t, t͡ɕ, k/ become voiced [b, d, d͡ʑ, ɡ] between voiced sounds. /m, n/ frequently denasalize at

5609-433: The term that JYP Entertainment will still use the building for three years on rent. The subsidiary Studio J was formed on January 9, 2015, in line with JYP Entertainment's goal to "promote free and deep artists that create authentic music rather than appealing to the mainstream demand." The first artist on Studio J's roster was G.Soul , who debuted on the same day. In March, 2AM members Seulong and Jinwoon departed from

5688-464: The underlying, partly historical morphology . Given this, it is sometimes hard to tell which actual phonemes are present in a certain word. The traditional prohibition of word-initial /ɾ/ became a morphological rule called "initial law" ( 두음법칙 ) in the pronunciation standards of South Korea, which pertains to Sino-Korean vocabulary. Such words retain their word-initial /ɾ/ in the pronunciation standards of North Korea. For example, ^NOTE ㅏ

5767-441: Was accompanied by an online reality series, Real Miss A . The music video for the lead single, "Only You", gained more than 2 million views on YouTube within 24 hours. Following the end of Colors promotions, Miss A became inactive indefinitely. In May 2016, Jia left the group; according to management, the other members were focusing on solo activities at the time. In November 2017, it was reported that Min had also departed from

5846-752: Was established via a joint venture between JYP Entertainment, SM Entertainment , YG Entertainment , Star Empire, Media Line, CAN Entertainment and Music Factory Entertainment. KMP Holdings was acquired by KT Music in November 2012. In June 2013, KT Music absorbed KMP's distribution network. In January 2014, the seven talent agencies behind KMP Holdings formed a collective bond partnership and bought 13.48% of KT Music 's stocks, leaving KT Corporation with 49.99%. In 2011, JYP Entertainment joined forces with SM Entertainment, YG Entertainment, KeyEast , AMENT and Star J Entertainment to form United Asia Management in an effort to promote Korean pop music internationally. On January 31, 2018, iRiver announced its entry into

5925-487: Was first introduced to Korea in the 1st century BC, and remained the medium of formal writing and government until the late 19th century. Korean scholars adapted Chinese characters (known in Korean as Hanja ) to write their own language, creating scripts known as idu , hyangchal , gugyeol , and gakpil. These systems were cumbersome, due to the fundamental disparities between the Korean and Chinese languages, and accessible only to those educated in classical Chinese. Most of

6004-444: Was founded in 1997 by South Korean singer-songwriter Park Jin-young , named after his stage name, J. Y. Park, as Tae-Hong Planning Corporation. In 2001, the company was retitled as JYP Entertainment. In 1997, the company signed its first artist – Pearl . In 1999, entertainment company SidusHQ introduced the future members of boy band G.o.d to Park, as their producer and mentor. In cooperation with SidusHQ, JYP Entertainment oversaw

6083-492: Was released on October 15. On October 16, Miss A were involved in a minor car accident. They were taken to a hospital, and continued their schedules with only a few hours delay. They began their promotions for its lead single , "I Don't Need a Man", on October 18. "I Don't Need a Man" was also included on Miss A's next album, Hush . On October 29, 2013, Miss A released their second studio album, Hush . Miss A released their extended play Colors on March 30, 2015. This

6162-665: Was signed under Republic Records for American promotions. On August 4, a collaboration with SM Entertainment to establish Beyond Live Corporation, a joint company for virtual concerts was announced. On November 17, JYP Entertainment invested 5 billion KRW in Naver Z , the developer of the online avatar app Zepeto. On January 10, 2021, all members of Got7 left JYP Entertainment upon the completion of their 7-year contract. On April 26, JYP Entertainment and P Nation announced to form their new boy group in Loud . It premiered on June 5 on SBS . On July 12,

6241-404: Was well received by critics, and its title track has been covered on numerous occasions by girl groups and on survival reality shows. This would be followed by a year-long hiatus, until the release of their third extended play, Colors (2015), which would go on to become their last release before disbandment. In 2017, Billboard ranked Miss A at number ten on their "Top 10 K-pop Girl Groups of

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