Did You Know That Active K-Pop Girl Groups are More Than 100?

By Staff Reporter Mar 22, 2012

How many girl groups are currently active in K-Pop?

Groups that are active worldwide are only a handful like Girls’ Generation, 2NE1, and Wonder Girls. Also there are those who have a large fan base in Japan and Asia such as KARA, T-ARA, Rainbow, 4minute. Then there are other groups might be recognized in Korea however it means than K-Pop has numerous groups whose names remain unknown.

SM Entertainment president Kim Young Min once mentioned in an interview that it’s difficult to even have 2 successful teams out of 10 groups. There is a large amount of capital that is needed to just even launch one group, then how much more is needed to raise one successful group according to this calculation? Still the fact remains that there are one idol group coming out newly each week.

The term girl group refers to a group of young female singers. In Britain there is the Spice Girls consisting of five member group that appeared in 1990’s and Atomic Kitten in 2000's. This term was used in K-Pop from the latter half of 2000. In the beginning it was only referring to the young group consisting of female members however now it expanded to a wider meaning of “bright, energetic group of girls” or “female dance group.”

Besides the K-Pop artists that the worldwide readers know, are there any other K-Pop groups that you know? It is said that girl groups alone have over 100 groups. KpopStarz has organized the girl groups that are active or popular according to their debut date.

Wonder Girls (2007.02) - ‘Irony’

KARA (2007.03) – ‘Break It’