What's the biggest plot-twist that has happened in the K-pop industry?

bts becoming the biggest group

T-ara scandal.

SM flopping

It was initially thought that Bighit didn’t have enough money to buy SM or YG (because they kept buying smaller kpop companies). Turns out, Hybe ie Bighit bought scooter Braun’s company and Justin and Ari get to be label mates with BTS lol

T-ara's bullying scandal

Nobody saw that one coming

GFriend disbanding...it’s still a difficult situation to wrap my head around

seungri

Burning Sun Scandal imo

lizkook is real

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lizkook is real

Your high audacity is real

the top female idol is SEA

TWICE are actually pink aliens who are obsessed with a blue alien.

It was pretty shocking when Chen announced out of the blue that he was having a baby ngl

Mispronounced Shy Shy Shy

there are many I can remember

actual scandals that changed things in the industry:

Burning Sun and HSH exposing

Produce 101 rigging

and shocking events that no one saw coming

Jessica leaving SNSD/JYJ leaving TVXQ

T-ara's downfall

BTS becoming the top group and making their company the biggest one

Brave Girls rise to fame

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T-ARA scandal

Produce controversy

Burning Sun

Brave Girls/Oh My Girl becoming a top group with multiple hits

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I thought everybody saw Produce one coming!!!!!

The "Paper Award" and the kpop community/industry's response to it - immediately and how the coped with it ..how things have evolved noh?

In my 10 years in kpop, this was the most interesting thing to see go down. First came all the denial and the mocking. The soap box rhetorics about "western validation" ..and the current kpop industry's situation right now. LOL.