Who has the biggest "Rags to Riches" Stories in kpop?

Well, Brave Girls would be an obvious choice.

Granted they aren't at IU or BTS level, but the break they got with Rollin' is a marvel, and they are doing a lot better than they have been for a long while.

It's not rags to riches if the idols were never in rags in the first place

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well then one should find idols who were in rags then!!!

I mean BTS did wear rags

Brave Girls or EXID for the GG

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I didn't know that about "Bo Gums"! No coincidence that Dara's story hits like a movie script with her being an actor too.

I agree with the Brave Girls mention. Literally, they are the most current representation of the phrase in my profile, "From Rags to Birken bags".

mamamoo, sistar. the companies were very small and unknown when they debuted.

I can only think of IU and some members of BTS

IU became the biggest star in Korea from a very humble background

V and Suga became some of the biggest stars in the world from a humble background too.

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mamamoo, sistar. the companies were very small and unknown when they debuted.

Feel like people forget about them a lot.

Both Starship and RBW were just like any of your nugu companies out there, they started very small and both groups manage to give their companies the boost to make them what they are today

Super Junior Eunhyuk used to live in a house with no toilet

basically 1st and 2nd gen . their old dorm stories are kinda makes me think that companny really stingy with their money .
dorm with broken toilet , battle with rats no proper heater or AC .

BTS

IU

Gfriend?

Surprised no one's mentioned Infinite, I heard that their CEO sold his house at one point to fund the group. That's how broke Woollim was.