Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Benjamin is a New York-based writer covering global pop music. After nearly five million viewers tuned into the first-ever ...

After announcing the second digital iteration of the annual K-pop festival KCON known as KCON:TACT, the virtual fan fest has secured more than 25 artists for its final lineup. KCON has shared the ...

YouTube will debut “KCON:TACT All-Access,” the first docuseries taking fans behind the scenes of a KCON K-pop festival, next month. The YouTube Originals docuseries follows the production of KCON:TACT ...

KCON, the annual convention and concert series that showcases Korean products and entertainment via a multi-day confab, will go online for its summer 2020 edition as a seven-day streaming event. Their ...

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, KCON is officially moving online. In a press release posted on its website Wednesday, the annual K-pop music festival and convention announced a virtual event for this ...

KCON recently announced that they will be partnering with YouTube for their 2020 event to stream a weeklong event from June 20 to 26. This follows a recent announcement that KCON 2020 LA would be ...

KCON 2020 LA has officially been postponed. The event was originally planned to be held from August 27 to 30 at the LA Convention Center. We are sad to announce that #KCON20LA has been postponed due ...

The third and final lineup has been announced for KCON:TACT 2020 SUMMER! (G)I-DLE, VICTON, Chungha, ATEEZ, SF9, ITZY, TXT, BVNDIT, Oh My Girl, ONF, ASTRO, and N.Flying will be performing at the online ...

Get ready for KCON 24/7! The "world's largest K-culture convention" is taking things online in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic, after postponing previously planned in-person events in New York, ...

If any music genre was going to thrive in the era of quarantined livestreams, it was K-pop. But like all festivals that are down for the count this year, the loss of KCON — far and away the marquee ...