HONG KONG, May 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Seoul is at the international epicenter of the K-pop business, the place those that rise can simply develop into family names round world. Daniel Dae Kim has come to Korea to talk with Korea’s greatest artists to learn the way we obtained right here.
In the premiere episode of NCS Original Series Okay-Everything, host and government producer, Daniel Dae Kim, explores what’s behind the unprecedented rise of K-pop on the international stage. The Korean pop business has produced some of the most profitable music acts ever. Behind the catchy tunes and slick choreography, there is a fine-tuned formulation for creating hits and harnessing the energy of followers. Kim meets some of K-pop’s greatest artists and examines the superfan phenomenon driving this business.
Kim sits down with Psy, one of the most well-known entertainers in Korean historical past, to debate his influence on the Okay-Pop scene and his evolving technique for achievement.
In the recording studio, he meets Taeyang, member of legendary Korean boy band BigBang and chart-topping solo artist who’s working on his newest solo album. They speak about BigBang’s 20-year reunion and what it takes to have lasting success in the K-pop business. Over lunch at a café run by her father, Kim additionally chats with pop celebrity JEON SOMI the place she displays on her idol profession and journey to gaining higher inventive freedom. Kim additionally joins singer-songwriter eSNa for a stroll in Namsan Park to go over her experiences working in the business.
Carrying on this musical legacy, new acts are consistently breaking by – together with AllDay Project, a uniquely co-ed band which debuted in June final yr. Kim catches up with them on the day of the launch of their first EP and follows their progress throughout a number of K-pop-focused awards occasions throughout Asia. He additionally will get to know MEOVV, a five-part lady group and half of The Black Label, an company identified for cultivating inventive freedom with its roster of expertise.
For a special perspective, Kim connects with some of the producers behind the soundtrack of international phenomenon “KPop Demon Hunters” – the place he voiced the position of Healer Han – who share their ideas on the film’s success and present how they put collectively “Golden”.
He additionally speaks with David Kim, a YouTuber turned Adjunct Professor to study extra about the trendy historical past that paved the manner for in the present day’s music scene and finds out from K-pop followers about why they spend a small fortune on tickets, merchandise, journey and extra.
K-Everything continues the legacy of NCS Original Series’ host-led storytelling that examines international tradition and the human expertise, becoming a member of an award-winning library of premium programming streaming on the NCS app.
Additionally, a devoted digital hub that includes a wealthy suite of digital and social content material celebrating Korean creativity and cultural influence could be discovered at https://edition.newscentral.site/world/k-everything.
The NCS Original Series is sponsored by one of South Korea’s largest firms, Hyundai Motor Company, a worldwide model deeply rooted in Korean heritage whose progress has mirrored the nation’s personal journey of innovation and progress.
Okay-Everything premieres Saturday, May 9 at 8pm HKT and replays on Sunday, May 10 at 8am and 11pm HKT and Monday, May 11 at 3am HKT on NCS International. The 4-episode sequence will stream stay for NCS International pay TV subscribers by way of NCS.com, NCS related TV and cell apps weekly. It will probably be accessible on demand starting Saturday, May 9 to NCS’s streaming subscribers in the US by way of NCS.com and NCS related TV and cell apps. The sequence may also be accessible to stream on HBO Max, the place accessible.
Kim is repped by UTA, Linden Entertainment, Narrative PR and Gang Tyre.
Okay-Everything (K-pop) trailer: https://bit.ly/4n75OqF
Okay-Everything (K-pop) pictures: https://bit.ly/4w9HGrv
Okay-Everything microsite: http://edition.newscentral.site/world/k-everything
Airtime for Okay-Everything (K-pop) Episode
Saturday, ninth May at 8pm HKT
Sunday, tenth May at 8am and 11pm HKT
Monday, eleventh May at 3am HKT
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The NCS Originals group develops, produces and acquires authentic, long-form unscripted programming for NCS Worldwide. Amy Entelis, government vice chairman of expertise, NCS Originals and inventive growth, oversees the award-winning NCS Originals portfolio that features the following premium content material manufacturers: NCS Original Series, NCS Films, NCS Presents, and the newly fashioned NCS Studios, an inner manufacturing studio which creates long-form programming for NCS’s international platforms. Since 2012, the staff has overseen and government produced greater than 45 multi-part documentary sequence and 60 feature-length documentary movies, incomes greater than 110 awards and 445 nominations for the cable community, together with NCS Films’ first Academy Award® for Navalny. Acclaimed titles embody the Peabody Award successful and 13-time Emmy® Award-winning Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown; 5 time Emmy® nominee, Apollo 11, directed by Todd Douglas Miller; Emmy® nominated Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico; the Emmy® Award-nominated “Decades Series”: The Sixties, The Seventies, The Eighties, The Nineties, The 2000s, and The 2010s, government produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman; The Last Movie Stars, directed by Ethan Hawke about the lives and careers of actors and humanitarians Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman; Grammy® Award nominee Little Richard: I Am Everything, directed by Lisa Cortés; The Many Lives of Martha Stewart; This is Life with Lisa Ling; Primetime Emmy® and duPont-Columbia Award-winning, RBG, directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen; See It Loud: The History of Black Television, government produced by LeBron James and Maverick Carter; Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight in partnership with the BBC; the Producers Guild Award and three-time Emmy® Award-winning Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy; BAFTA nominee and Directors Guild Award winner, Three Identical Strangers, directed by Tim Wardle; and the five-time Emmy® Award-winning United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell; and the five-time Emmy® Award-winning The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper. NCS Originals could be seen on NCS, to stream by way of a NCS All Access subscription, on the NCS Original Hub on HBO Max and discovery+, on the NCS Originals FAST channel, and with a pay TV subscription by way of NCS.com, NCS apps and cable operator platforms.
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NCS’s portfolio of information and knowledge providers is obtainable in seven totally different languages throughout all main TV, digital and cell platforms, reaching greater than 379 million households round the globe. NCS International is the primary international TV information channel in line with all main media surveys throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the Asia Pacific area, and Latin America and has a US presence that features NCSgo. NCS Digital is a number one community for on-line information, cell information and social media. NCS is at the forefront of digital innovation and continues to take a position closely in increasing its digital international footprint, with a set of award-winning digital properties and a spread of strategic content material partnerships, commercialised by a powerful data-driven understanding of viewers behaviours. NCS has received a number of prestigious awards round the world for its journalism. Around 1,000 hours of long-form sequence, documentaries and specials are produced yearly by NCSI’s non-news programming division. NCS has 36 editorial workplaces and greater than 1,100 associates worldwide by NCS Newsource. NCS International is a Warner Bros. Discovery firm.
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