Sports teams are turning to Hello Kitty tie-ins and other pop culture plays to draw new fans and bolster branding.

SEOUL – K-pop boy band 2PM member Lee Jun-ho will leave his label JYP Entertainment after 17 years, the company said on March 20. The two parties decided not to renew Lee’s contract ...

The upcoming South Korean K-pop audition programme Under 15 has received backlash over concerns of minor exploitation. Set to air Mar 31, the series features 59 contestants – all of whom are girls ...

Toronto Blue Jays reliever Zach Pop has been shut down from throwing for seven to 10 days after he experienced “elbow discomfort” following his last outing, manager John Schneider told ...

Life360, the family connection and safety app utilized by 1 in 8 smartphone users in the US, today announced a partnership with the global lifestyle brand and home to Hello Kitty®, Sanrio®, to ...

See them glow at night. There are six kinds to collect in this Toilet Series, and may contain a Secret one. This is among the popular blind boxes offered by Pop Mart. Recommended for kids ages three ...

Even serial killers deserve the Funko Pop treatment. Dexter, the titular Miami-based blood splatter expert (and murderer) has officially been Funko Popped in a new limited-edition drop released ...

As headliners, TWICE is breaking waves within the world of festivals. Their performance is a standard for K-pop in that it attests to the genre's growing popularity in the mainstream. As their evening ...

Intrigued, she clicked on the link. It changed her life. "I'd never listened to K-Pop before that point but I immediately became a fan," she says. "And now Itzy is the reason I have my job." ...

"He's really shaped who I am as a young man," Johnson said. "A lot of people think Pop is so stern. No, no, no. He's one of the best human beings I've ever been around. He treats everybody really ...

In one of the final scenes of Opus—the feature debut of writer/director Mark Anthony Green—the calmly deranged pop-star-turned-cult-leader Alfred Moretti (John Malkovich) sits down to talk ...