HYBE, YG, SM, JYP Form Joint Corporation to Launch Global K-pop Festival โ€˜Fanomenonโ€™

2026.04.17K WAVE SPOT

ํ•˜์ด๋ธŒยทYGยทSMยทJYP, ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ K-ํŒ ํŽ˜์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ฒŒ โ€˜ํŒฌ๋…ธ๋ฏธ๋…ผโ€™ ๊ณต๋™ ๋ฒ•์ธ ์„ค๋ฆฝโ€ฆ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์™€ ์šฐ๋ ค ๊ต์ฐจ

Agencies Unite for Global Expansion, Fans React with Excitement and Skepticism

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2026๋…„ 4์›” 16์ผ, ํ•˜์ด๋ธŒยทYGยทSMยทJYP ๋“ฑ ๊ตญ๋‚ด 4๋Œ€ ๊ธฐํš์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ณต๋™ ๋ฒ•์ธ์„ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ•ด ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ K-ํŒ ํŽ˜์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ฒŒ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ โ€˜ํŒฌ๋…ธ๋ฏธ๋…ผ(Fanomenon)โ€™์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋Š” 2027๋…„ 12์›” ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ฒซ ํŽ˜์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ฒŒ์„ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•œ ๋’ค, 2028๋…„ 5์›”๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ฃผ์š” ๋„์‹œ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ•์ง„์˜ JYP ์ด๊ด„ ํ”„๋กœ๋“€์„œ๊ฐ€ ์ œ์•ˆํ•œ ์ด๋ฒˆ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฝ”์ฒผ๋ผ(Coachella)์— ๋งž์„œ๋Š” ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์Œ์•… ์ถ•์ œ๋ฅผ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, BTSยท๋ธ”๋ž™ํ•‘ํฌยท์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์ด ํ‚ค์ฆˆ ๋“ฑ ์ตœ์ •์ƒ๊ธ‰ K-ํŒ ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ์™€ ํ•ด์™ธ ๋ฎค์ง€์…˜๋“ค์ด ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
On April 16, 2026, Koreaโ€™s four largest entertainment companiesโ€”HYBE, YG Entertainment, SM Entertainment, and JYP Entertainmentโ€”announced the establishment of a joint corporation (JV) to spearhead a new global K-pop festival brand named Fanomenon. The project aims to expand K-cultureโ€™s footprint worldwide, with plans to host annual festivals in Korea starting in December 2027, followed by global editions in major cities from May 2028. The initiative, first proposed by JYPโ€™s Park Jin-young, is designed to rival international events like Coachella, positioning Korea as a central hub for global music and culture. The festival will feature top K-pop acts such as BTS, BLACKPINK, and Stray Kids, alongside diverse international performers.
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ํŒฌ๋“ค์˜ ๋ฐ˜์‘์€ ์—‡๊ฐˆ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์„ K-ํŒ ์„ฑ์ง€๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ๊ด€๊ด‘ ์‚ฐ์—…์„ ํ™œ์„ฑํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ํฐ ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ๊ด€๊ณ„์— ์žˆ๋Š” 4๋Œ€ ๊ธฐํš์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์›ํ™œํžˆ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๋„ ์ œ๊ธฐ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ ๊ฐ„ ๋ฒ•์  ๋ถ„์Ÿ, ์šด์˜ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์˜ ๋ถˆํˆฌ๋ช…์„ฑ, ์ฝ”์ฒผ๋ผ๊ธ‰ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์™€ ์œ„์ƒ์„ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํšŒ์˜์ ์ธ ์‹œ์„ ๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ํ˜‘์—…์ด K-ํŒ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ „๋ก€ ์—†๋Š” ์‹œ๋„์ž„์„ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„, ์„ฑ๊ณต ์—ฌ๋ถ€๋Š” ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ทน๋ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ํˆฌ๋ช…ํ•œ ์šด์˜ ์ฒด๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๋ จํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์— ๋‹ฌ๋ ค ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ถ„์„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Fan reactions have been mixed. Many expressed excitement over the prospect of a โ€œK-Chellaโ€ that could bring global fans to Korea, boosting tourism and cultural influence. However, some voiced skepticism, questioning whether the four companiesโ€”often competitorsโ€”can cooperate smoothly. Concerns also include legal disputes among artists, unclear operational structures, and whether the festival can truly match the scale and prestige of Coachella. Industry analysts note that while the collaboration signals unprecedented unity in K-pop, its success will depend on transparent governance and the ability to overcome internal rivalries.