Kim's collection is part of a growing mountain of discarded CDs and merchandise waste that has swelled alongside K-pop's global popularity. Made with polycarbonate, CDs can be recycled but only ...

Kim’s collection is part of a growing mountain of discarded CDs and merchandise waste that has swelled alongside K-pop’s global popularity. Made with polycarbonate, CDs can be recycled but ...

merchandise by December 24 ... and made history as the first song by a K-pop female soloist to enter the top ten of both the US Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart. Within just two months ...

K-pop fan Kim Na-Yeon used to buy stacks of the same album when there was a new release, hoping to find one of the rare selfies of her favourite stars tucked between the plastic covers.