Are virtual idols for real?

Start your day with a roundup of key stories from The Korea Herald with news and comment on all that’s happening in Korea. Published : March 4, 2024 - 13:54 Link copied From getting good songs and choreographies to holding in-person concerts, things are tough for virtual idols in the highly competitive K-pop scene. “When our virtual idol group Plave was looking for songs, our group members said they felt the composers were not giving them A-level quality songs. That led the group to make their own songs,” said Lee Sung-gu, CEO of Vlast, during a press conference in Seoul last Monday. Vlast is a virtual intellectual property startup that created and manages the virtual K-pop boy group Plave. There are two types of virtual K-pop groups — those with humans behind virtual characters and those created via artificial intelligence only. Plave is a group of five virtual idols with real people behind the screen. The group debuted on March 12, 2023 with the single “Asterum.” “In the beginning, w

Start your day with a roundup of key stories from The Korea Herald with news and comment on all that’s happening in Korea. Published : March 4, 2024 - 13:54 Link copied From getting good songs and choreographies to holding in-person concerts, things are tough for virtual idols in the highly competitive K-pop scene. “When our virtual idol group Plave was looking for songs, our group members said they felt the composers were not giving them A-level quality songs. That led the group to make their own songs,” said Lee Sung-gu, CEO of Vlast, during a press conference in Seoul last Monday. Vlast is