K-pop
The girl group NewJeans carries two overlapping meanings. One: like the jeans each generation reinvents, they aim to be a timeless icon. The other: a homophone of "new genes," signaling a fresh new generation of K-pop.
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The group SEVENTEEN has 13 members, yet its name is "17." It stands for "13 members + 3 units + 1 team = 17." They were meant to have 17 members, but 4 left before debut; rather than rename, they kept it. The 13 split into hip-hop, vocal, and performance units.
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Sung Han-bin, leader of ZEROBASEONE, has a name meant to carry both parents' surnames: his father's "Sung" and mother's "Han," joined as "Sunghan," plus "bin." But Korean law bars registering both surnames, so officially his surname is "Sung," given name "Han-bin."
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