KT Genie Music
KT Genie Music, a subsidiary of KT Corporation, is a South Korean company that specializes in the production and distribution of music content. Its music streaming service is the second most used in South Korea with 2.5 million subscribers as of June 2018.
Also recorded as GENIE MUSIC · Genie Music Corp.
KT Genie Music
- Name
- KT Genie Music Corporation
- Founded
- 1991
- Headquarters
- Seoul
- Activity
- music industry
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KT Genie Music, a subsidiary of KT Corporation, is a South Korean company that specializes in the production and distribution of music content. Its music streaming service is the second most used in South Korea with 2.5 million subscribers as of June 2018.
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Key facts
• Name — KT Genie Music Corporation • Native Name — 케이티지니뮤직 • Type — Public • Predecessor — Blue Cord Technology Co., Ltd. (as a division) • Hq Location City — 6th - 8th floors L7 Hotels Gangnam Tower, 415 Teheran-ro, Samseong-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul • Hq Location Country — South Korea • Key People — Kim Hoon-bae (CEO) • Area Served — worldwide • Industry — contents (music) • Products — music albums, online services • Services — production, distribution • Parent — KT Corporation • Subsidiaries — Millie's Library • Owner — KT StudioGenie: 35.97% CJ ENM: 15.35% LG U+: 12.70% • Website — https: www.geniemusic.co.kr/
History
History
The company's history can be traced from the music contents division of Blue Cord Technology, established in 1991. The same division then owned Muz (now Olleh Music), one of the major music portals in the country. The division was also strengthened by the acquisition of Doremi Media (one of South Korea's well-known music publishers) in 2000. In 2007, Blue Cord was acquired by KT Freetel, and upon merging with the former, made the music division a separate company named KTF Music. In 2009, the company was renamed as KT Music due to the merger of KTF and its parent KT Corporation. It acquired KMP Holdings in 2012. Following the investment of LG Uplus, the company changed its name to Genie Music in March 2017. In October 2018, Genie Music and CJ ENM's CJ Digital Music merged, with Genie Music being the surviving entity and CJ ENM being the former's second largest shareholder with 15.35%. In April 2025, "Genie Music" was officially renamed "KT Genie Music". 。
Assets
Assets
• Genie (online music service) • Shop&Genie (music service for stores and other businesses)
Domestic
Domestic
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Foreign
Foreign
• ShowBT Entertainment Philippines Corp (2020–present) • SB19
Domestic
Domestic
• Astory Entertainment (2017–2019, now with NHN Bugs) • Hybe Corporation • Belift Lab (2020–2023; all releases now handled by HYBE for physical marketing and YG PLUS for digital marketing) • J. Tune Camp (defunct) • Jellyfish Entertainment (2017–2022, now with Kakao Entertainment) • JYP Entertainment (until 2018, now with Dreamus Company) • KQ Entertainment (until 2024, now with Sony Music Entertainment Korea and Kakao Entertainment) • Lion Media (defunct) • MBK Entertainment (2013–2014; now with Kakao Entertainment; now defunct) • NH Media • SM Entertainment (until 2018, now with Dreamus Company) • Source Music (2010–2016; now with Kakao Entertainment and later on YG Plus) • Stardom Entertainment (defunct) • Starkim Entertainment • Swing Entertainment (until 2023; merged into WakeOne) • WM Entertainment (2017–2021, now with Sony Music) • YG Entertainment (until 2019, all releases now distributed by subsidiary YG Plus) • YMC Entertainment
Foreign
Foreign
• Avex Group (until 2018, now with Kakao Entertainment) • J Storm (until 2018, now with Sony Music Entertainment Korea and Kakao Entertainment) • King Records 'You be Cool' division (until 2023; defunct after AKB48 moved to EMI Records (Japan)/Universal in 2023)
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- 1.Genie Music appoints Kim Hoon-bae as new CEO (Park Soo-hyeong, ZDNet Korea, 2017-6-23)
- 2.Genie Music poses threat to Melon by acquiring CJ Digital Music (Jun Ji-hye, The Korea Times, 2018-10-09)
- 3.Ha-neul, Kim. [특징주] 지니뮤직, '우영우' 훈풍에 주가 움직인다 'KT스튜디오지니 자회사'. NBN TV. July 15, 2022.
- 4.Kakao's Melon app dominates Korea's music streaming service market. The Korea Herald. April 17, 2018.
- 5.[Kosdaq Star] Genie Music garners investor attention on anticipated M&A. The Korea Herald. June 24, 2018.
- 6.KT Music History.
- 7.Blue Cord Technology History.
- 8.Doremi Media History.
- 9.KTF acquires Blue Cord (Nam Seung-bong, Ulsan Daily Newspaper, 2007-11-14)
- 10.디지털타임스. 블루코드, `KTF뮤직` 사명변경. 2008-03-28.
- 11.KT, KMP홀딩스 인수…“음원경쟁력 강화”. zdnet.co.kr. 2012-11-02.
- 12.LG Uplus invests in KT Music... "Strengthening the competitiveness of music platform" (Shin Min-kwan, The Chosun Ilbo, 2017-3-15)
- 13.KT, LG Uplus join hands on home IoT, AI services. The Korea Herald. March 15, 2017.
- 14.변경상장(상호변경). KRX KIND. 2025-04-18.
- 15.Daum 원하시는 페이지를 찾을 수가 없습니다.
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