It is already well known that JYP Entertainment is one of the big three (“Big 3”) entertainment agencies in South Korea. The term “Big 3” referring to the three biggest entertainment companies in K-Pop, which are SM Entertainment, JYP Entertainment, and YG Entertainment. In this article, Channel-Korea will provide you with everything you need to know about the up-and-down story of JYP Entertainment: one of the Big Three Companies which focuses on artists’ attitude. Let’s find out more about JYP Entertainment, home of many popular idol groups. So, stay tuned and keep scrolling down this article.

Company Profile

Name: JYP Entertainment Native name: JYP 엔터테인먼트 Type: Public Traded as: KRX: 035900 Industry: Entertainment Retail Genre:

K-Pop R&B EDM Trot

Founded: May 1997, 22 years ago Founder: J. Y. Park Headquarters: Seoul, South Korea Area served: Worldwide Key people: Wook Jung CEO Services:

Music production Concert production company Record distribution Music publishing company Artist management Event management

Revenue:

Increase US$ 93.99 million (2017) US$ 69.51 million (2016) US$ 50.56 million (2015)

Net income:

Increase US$ 15.04 million (2017) US$ 7.533 million (2016) US$ 3.1 million (2015))

Owner:

J. Y. Park (18.72%) JYP Entertainment Corporation (8.02%) Korea Investment Value Asset Management Co., Ltd. (7.94%) MEDIAcorp, Inc (5.09%) Others (62.4%)

Number of employees: 235 Divisions: 1.Branches

JYP Beijing Cultural Exchange Ltd (JYPE China) has two subsidiaries: FANLING Culture Media Ltd and Beijing shisung Ent. Ltd JYP Entertainment Inc [USA] JYP Entertainment Japan Inc JYP Entertainment Thailand Inc JYP Actors JYP Pictures, it has two division: JYP Pictures co., Ltd Korea and JYP Pictures Co., Ltd China JYP Entertainment Hong Kong Limited. JYP Foods InC: JYP Foods Inc. JYP Publishing CORP

  1. Sub-labels

Studio J AQ Entertainment J. Tune Entertainment

Website: www.jype.com

Story of Park Jin-young Establish JYP

In 1997, JYP Entertainment was founded by South Korean singer-songwriter J. Y. Park as Tae-Hong Planning Corporation, which eventually changed to JYP Entertainment in 2001. In 1997, the company signed its first artist, female solo artist, Pearl. In 1999, SidusHQ introduced singer-songwriter and JYP Entertainment founder Park Jin-young as their producer and mentor. In December 2000, JYP Entertainment recruits Rain as a trainee, who two years later debuted as a singer. He was the first Korean Global solo artist that expanded outside of South Korea and became successful worldwide. Then, Rain built a subsidiary label named J. Tune Entertainment. On December 27th, 2002, JYP company’s first boy group, a four-member vocal-oriented group Noel debuted, but they failed to get the public’s attention. In 2003 and in 2004, JYP shifted its focus to the duo brothers One Two. Then the boy band g.o.d. signed a contract with JYP Entertainment after their contract with Sidus HQ ended. g.o.d has gotten four Grand Prizes for Best K-Pop Group Artists. In May 2006, JYP successfully debuted its first girl group, Wonder Girls. Then in 2008, JYP created the competitive reality series Hot Blood Men to debuted a new boy group. The winning group, One Day, was later split into two boy bands, 2PM and vocal group 2AM. The two groups debuted in the same year. JYP Entertainment and Big Hit Entertainment jointly contracted to promote 2AM’s activities. In 2010, JYP Entertainment acquired J. Tune Entertainment, the agency that belonged to Rain. In 2010 JYP also successfully debuted another new girl group Miss A with their debut song “Good Girl, Bad Girl.”

Inside Company Building

JYP Entertainment’s agency’s new building is now located in Sungnae-dong, near the Olympic Park. Earlier, the old location was in the Gangnam region. There were other artist agencies such as SM Entertainment, Big Hit Entertainment, and FNC Entertainment. JYP Entertainment’s new building includes an organic cafe, an organic dinner, and it is also equipped with its own source of oxygen tank for certain rooms as well. The elevator is also reported to be environmental friendly as well.

List of Past and Current Artists Within The Company

All of the artists under JYP Entertainment are collectively known as JYP Nation. Current Artists Recording Artists:

2PM JJ Project Got7 Twice Stray Kids Itzy

  1. Subunits

Jus2 3Racha

  1. Solo Artists

J. Y. Park Yubin Jang Wooyoung (2PM) Jun. K (2PM) Lee Junho (2PM) Hwang Chansung (2PM) Nichkhun (2PM) Jackson Wang (Got7)

Independent Artists:

Bands: Day6 Solo Artists: Nakjoon

  1. New Creative Content Entertainment

Boy Story

  1. FANLING Culture Media Ltd.

Yao Chen

  1. JYPE Japan Inc

NiziProject

Creators:

J. Y. Park “The Asiansoul” Armadillo Frants Hong Ji-sang Dr.JO Honey Pot Cho Hyun-kyung Park Yong-woon Joohyo Toyo Woo Rhee (Rainstone) Tigersoul Garden Jamie Lee Hae Sol Kim Mong E Versachoi HotSauce Yang Jeong-sik Lee Dal Kobee Jowul of Princess Disease Kim Seung-soo Min Lee (collapsedone) Noday Paul Thompson (Marz) Ragoon IM Sim Eun-jee Song Ji-wook Raphael Tommy Park Jun.K Junho Wooyoung CB97 (Bang Chan) SPEARB (Seo Chang-bin) J.ONE (Han Ji-sung)

  1. Singer-songwriters:

Jun.K Junho Nichkhun Wooyoung Chansung Defsoul (JB) Jackson Jinyoung Ars (Choi Young-jae) BamBam Yugyeom Mark Yubin Hyerim Young K Jae Sungjin Wonpil Dowoon Nayeon Jeongyeon Momo Sana Jihyo Mina Dahyun Chaeyoung Tzuyu CB97 (Bang Chan) SPEARB (Seo Chang-bin) J.ONE (Han Ji-sung) Lee Know Hyunjin Felix Seungmin I.N

  1. Choreographers:

Jonte’ Moaning Lia Kim hyojin-lee-yong Park Nam-yong Tomoya Minase WooNg (Kim Hyung-woong)

Past or Former Artists 2. Former actors and actresses:

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