Korean Record Labels

TS Entertainment (TSE) was founded by Kim Tae-Song in 2008.The first artists they signed was Untouchable and managed to release their first debut single in the same month. The following year they signed a four member girl group called Secret and was first introduced to the public through a reality show on Mnet. The following month, their first single was released and made a hit. In July 2011 they branched their company out to Japan as many Japanese teenagers began to notice Secret.

In 2011 TS Entertainment debuted a six member boy band. This was the beginning of B.A.P’s career. The members were introduced through a T.V show named Ta-Dah, It’s B.A.P where it was first aired on SBS MTV Korea on January 8 2012.

One of TS Entertainment’s well known group are B.A.P (Best Absolute Perfect) who to the Kpop industry are known as a rookie group. But the unique thing about them is that they’re only been an official group of about a year yet their fan base is growing is fast quantities. More so, so many international fans have written to TSE to have concerts and earlier this year they held concerts in the USA, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Taiwan.

 

 

S.M Entertainment(SM엔터테인먼트) is Korean record label, talent agency, producer and publisher of Korean pop music. It was founded by Lee Soo-Man during the 1990’s. He started surveying what young teens look for in music and soon started to build up the company. In 2012, the company’s market capitalization rose to ₩1.38 trillion ($1.24 Billion USD) which gave then the title of a mega-corporation.The record label is known as one of the “big three” record companies in Korea. It shares the platform with YG Entertainment as well as JYP Entertainment. This is due to the strong marketing share and international operations.

They are known for managing major groups like Shinee, EXO, Girl’s Genereation, f(x), Super Junior, Boa and Shinhwa whom are also known internationally. It is also home to various actors such as Kim Min0Jong, Kim Ha-Neul and Lee Yoen-hee.

 

YG Entertainment is one of the other big three record label and talent agency founded by Yang Hyun-Suk. It is allocated in the heart of South Korea, Seoul. They manage the biggest K-pop acts internationally such as Big Bang, 2NE1 and the world famous Gangnam style man PSY.

This current year YG is known to be the best record label who have gathered more than 3.5 billion views and have over 8 million YouTube subscribers which makes them the most viewed and most subscribed artist and entertainment agency in the Asia-Pacific region.

YG Entertainment's records are distributed by KMP in Korea and WMG in Taiwan and YGEX in Japan. This label is a collaboration between AVEX and YG Entertainment, the company became a public trade company in November 2011. YG's company price increased by more than 60% due to the publicity of theirmultiple artists.