Cube Entertainment

Cube Entertainment
Native name
큐브엔터테인먼트
Company typePublic
KRX: 182360
IndustryEntertainment
Genre
FoundedAugust 29, 2006 (as Playcube, Inc.)[1]
Founders
  • Hong Seung-sung
  • Shin Jung-hwa
Headquarters,
South Korea
Key people
Revenue
  • ₩ 29.830 billion (2019)[2]
  • ₩ 969 million (2019)[2]
Owner
Number of employees
79 (2018)
Subsidiaries
  • Cube Entertainment Japan
  • U-Cube
Website

Cube Entertainment Inc. (Korean큐브엔터테인먼트; RRKyubeu Enteoteinmeonteu) is a South Korean entertainment company. The company operates as a record label, talent agency, music production company, event management and concert production company, and music publishing house. Cube are known for having "self-composing and self-producing" idols.[4] In April 2020, the founder of Cube, Hong Seung-sung, resigned from the company due to an ownership dispute.[5]

The label currently manages several artists, namely Kwon Eun-bin, Pentagon, Yoo Seon-ho, (G)I-dle, Lightsum and Nowadays. It also manages several entertainers and actors, including Lee Hwi-jae, Heo Kyung-hwan, Park Mi-sun, Kim Jin-woo and Park Sun-young.

It was formerly home to K-pop artists such as 4Minute, Beast, G.NA, Roh Ji-hoon, Hyuna, Rain, E'Dawn, A Train To Autumn, Lai Kuan-lin, Jang Hyun-seung, Elkie, Sorn, Yujin, Soojin, Yeeun, CLC, BtoB and Na In-woo.

  1. ^ Andre Paine (January 5, 2010). "UMG Partners With Korean K-Pop Firm". Billboard. Archived from the original on August 14, 2016. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Income Statement for Cube Entertainment". Archived from the original on 2019-01-24. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
  3. ^ "CUBE ENTERTAINMENT INC (182360)". MarketScreener. Archived from the original on January 23, 2019. Retrieved March 9, 2023.
  4. ^ "[기획] '작곡돌' 포진한 큐브, 펜타곤→아이들→비투비 '흥행 연타'". Zenith News. June 14, 2018. Archived from the original on 4 September 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  5. ^ "Cube Entertainment founder resigns after ownership dispute". The Korea Herald. 2020-04-01. Archived from the original on 2020-04-15. Retrieved 2020-09-01.