HYBE now owns 15.8% of SM, a regulatory filing showed ... adds to an already complex string of shareholder battles playing out over SM Entertainment. SM was founded by Lee Soo-man, a legendary ...

HYBE still owns an 8.8% stake in the competing K-pop company after Kakao purchased an additional 1.66 million of its shares. By Glenn Peoples Kakao Corp. and its subsidiary, Kakao Entertainment ...

The SM agency is home to such groups as ... China would seem ripe for Korean entertainment. Tencent Holdings also owns stakes in other K-pop operations, including Kakoa (a 4.61% stake) labels ...

All told, SM Entertainment now owns a 45.1% stake in DearU. The latter’s earnings will be reflected in the former’s consolidated earnings report, beginning in Q2. The addition is expected to ...

But he had one final trump card up his sleeve: selling his own company to the rival agency that owns BTS. As SM Entertainment's chief producer, Lee not only oversees and participates in the ...

A company is obligated to make such a regulatory report if it owns more than 5 percent of another firm. Kakao held an 8.16 percent stake in SM Entertainment during the period in question.