Editorial standards
How K-POP LEXICON sources, credits and updates its stories.
Sources and citations
Every claim in a story links to the report, statement or chart it comes from, and every story ends with its full list of sources. Our sources include:
- Soompi
- Koreaboo
- allkpop
- Yonhap
- Billboard
- Rolling Stone
- Variety
- The Hollywood Reporter
- The Korea Herald
- Korea JoongAng Daily
- The Korea Times
- NME
- The New York Times
- BBC
- Music Business Worldwide
- The Korea Economic Daily
- Pulse by Maeil Business
- Dispatch
- Newsis
- News1
- The Chosun Ilbo
- Maeil Business
- SBS News
- Naver News
- Naver Entertainment
- OSEN
- Xportsnews
- Sports Seoul
- TenAsia
Updates
When a story is updated with new developments after it is published, a dated note on the story says what changed.
Embedded posts and videos
Posts and videos embedded in a story come from their original accounts.
Bylines
Stories carry the K-POP LEXICON Desk byline. Read more about K-POP LEXICON.


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