MBK Entertainment

MBK Entertainment (Korean: MBK 엔터테인먼트) was a South Korean entertainment company established by Kim Kwang-soo. MBK Entertainment is known for managing multiple successful K-pop artists, such as T-ara, DIA, Davichi, SeeYa, F-ve Dolls, Shannon, Coed School, and SPEED.

MBK Entertainment
Native name
MBK 엔터테인먼트
FormerlyGM Planning (1999–2007)
Core Contents Media (2007–2014)
Unlisted company
Industry
Genre
FoundedJanuary 9, 2007 (2007-01-09) (Core Contents Media)
October 14, 2014 (2014-10-14) (MBK Entertainment)
FounderKim Kwang-soo
Defunct2022
HeadquartersYeoksam, Gangnam,
Seoul
,
South Korea
Key people
Kim Tae-kyung (CEO)
Services
  • Music production
  • Licensing
  • Record distribution
  • Artists Management
ParentCJ E&M Music (2006–2009)
MBK (2014–2016)
SubsidiariesDAP Sound (2014)
PocketDol Studio (2017)
M25 (2022)

The company was originally founded in 1999 as GM Planning. The company was absorbed by Mnet Media in 2006, following Kim Kwang-soo joint with CJ Group as their director. In 2007, the company re-launch as Core Contents Media under Mnet Media. In September 2009, Kim Kwang-soo was removed from the list as director of Mnet Media and then effectively his own company ended business with Mnet Media.

On October 1, 2014, Core Contents Media had been acquired by MBK Co., Ltd. (formerly CS ELSOLAR Co., Ltd.) and renamed as MBK Entertainment (abbreviation for "Music Beyond Korea").[1][2]

In December 2016, MBK Entertainment parent company MBK suspended their entertainment business.[3]

In May 2018, Kim Kwang-soo and its subsidiary label The Unit: Idol Rebooting Project Culture Industry Company (then-known as PocketDol Studio) were revealed that secretly partnership with PD Han Kyeong-cheon to produced survival program The Unit: Idol Rebooting Project. He also confirmed that he would be focused as producer for winning group UNB and UNI.T.[4][5]

In October 2018, MBK and MBC launched a talent show titled Under Nineteen, a contest for male trainees under the age of 19 years old to compete for a spot to be in a new K-pop idol group 1the9. The final winners would sign a 12-month contract under MBK (then PocketDol Studio) after a 5-month contract with MBC.[6]

In April 2020, MBK representation contestant in Produce X 101, Hangyul and Dohyon debuted as duo H&D under PocketDol Studio. In May 2020, DIA were transferred to sub-label PocketDol Studio ahead of their June comeback.

As 2022, the company closed after moving the company to its subsidiary PocketDol Studio.

Former artists

Former actors

Note

  • 1After Seeya disbanded in 2011, Kim Yeon-ji left from MBK Entertainment. Lee Boram remained her career until parted ways with MBK Entertainment in 2016.
  • 2Nam Gyu-ri debuted in 2006 as a member of Seeya. She left from the group in 2009 and remained her acting career. In 2014, she was officially parted ways with MBK Entertainment.
  • 3Kangho debuted as a member of Coed School in 2010. He left from the group in 2011.
  • 4Lee Soomi debuted as a new member of Seeya in 2009. She left from the group to re-debuted as a member of Coed School in 2010 and joined the female unit F-ve Dolls in 2011. In 2012, she was parted ways with MBK Entertainment.
  • 5Heo Chanmi debuted as a member of Coed School in 2010 and joined the female unit F-ve Dolls in 2011 and left from the group in 2012.
  • 6Ryu Hwayoung debuted as a new member of T-ara in 2010. She left from the group in 2012 due to terminated contract by MBK Entertainment.
  • 7Kwangheng and Noori debuted as a member of Coed School in 2010 and joined the male unit Speed in 2012. They later left from the group in late-2012.
  • 8Coed School were formed in 2010. The group was separated in two unit F-ve Dolls in 2011 and Speed in 2012. The group was disbanded after MBK Entertainment had not plans to reforms them as group and the unit became independent group in 2013.
  • 9Areum debuted as a new member of T-ara in 2012. She left from the group in 2013 to pursue her solo career and later parted ways with MBK Entertainment.
  • 10Gangkiz were formed in 2012. Hwang Jihyun, Choi Sooeun, Lee Haein, Kwak Somin and Cho Eunbyul left from the group in April 2013 and only remained Hyeji and Esther until the group disbanded in 2014. Lee Haein, Choi Sooeun, Hyeji (Kim Gahwa) and Esther (Jun Jaehyun) remains their career as actress. Choi parted ways in 2015 with MBK Entertainment following Lee in 2016, Kim and Jun in 2017.
  • 11F-ve Dolls originally debuted as member of Coed School. The unit was formed in 2011 as female unit of Coed School and became an independent group in 2013. The group was reported disbandment after their page had been deleted from the agency website in late-2014. In March 2015, MBK Entertainment confirmed that the group was officially disbanded. Ryu Hyoyoung filed a lawsuit against the agency to terminate her contract and accepted in 2016.
  • 12Taewoon debuted as a member of Coed School in 2010 and joined the male unit Speed in 2012. He left from the group and the agency in 2015 to pursue his solo career.
  • 13Speed originally debuted as member of Coed School. The unit was formed in 2012 as male unit of Coed School. In 2013, the unit became an independent group after MBK Entertainment had not plans to reform Coed School as a group. The group was reported disbandment after their page had been deleted from the agency website in late-2015, but the agency never makes confirmation. The group's member individual confirmed parted ways with MBK Entertainment in 2016. Park Se-jun and Kim Yuhwan stayed with MBK Entertainment to pursue their career.
  • 14The SeeYa were formed in 2012. In late-2015, the group's page had been deleted from the agency website and it was made speculated that the group was disbanded, but MBK Entertainment never confirmation that.
  • 15Cho Seunghee debuted as a new member of F-ve Dolls in 2013 and the group officially disbandment in March 2015. In September 2015, Seunghee was re-debuted as a member of MBK girl group DIA and left from the group after her contract was expired with the agency.
  • 16Eunjin officially left the group due to health problems on May 7, 2018.
  • 17Supernova was part of Core Contents but stayed with Maroo Entertainment.

Discography
Main article: MBK Entertainment discography

Filmography

Notes

    References
    1. "코어콘텐츠미디어, Mbk엔터테인먼트로 재출범…'소속 연예인들 행보는?'".
    2. "MBK ENTERTAINMENT CEO GO GEON HEE, "T-ARA WILL BE THE FUTURE OF HALLYU IN CHINA."". tiaradiadem. January 21, 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-10-07. Retrieved 2016-02-10.
    3. ""티아라·다이아 회사 아니예요"…Mbk엔터, 때아닌 '사업중단' 해프닝". 12 December 2016.
    4. "[김광수 인터뷰⑤]"수십억 적자 속 '더유닛' 우승팀 전폭지원, 약속 지키기 위해"". entertain.naver.com. May 17, 2018. Archived from the original on 2019-12-10. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
    5. "[김광수 인터뷰⑤]"수십억 적자 속 '더유닛' 우승팀 전폭지원, 약속 지키기 위해"". sportsseoul.com. May 17, 2018. Archived from the original on 2018-05-17. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
    6. "'언더나인틴', MBC-MBK가 만들 '틴에이저 아이돌'의 시작(종합)". enter.etoday.co.kr. October 30, 2018. Archived from the original on 2019-02-07. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
    7. "달샤벳 출신 배우 백다은, MBK와 전속계약 체결". Archived from the original on 2016-10-31. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
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