JYP EntertainmentJYP엔터테인먼트

JYP Entertainment (JYP엔터테인먼트) is a South Korean entertainment company founded by J.Y. Park (박진영; real name Park Jin-young), who has been active as a singer since 1992. His company began in 1997 as Tae-Hong Planning (태홍기획) and took the name JYP Entertainment in 2001, after his stage name.¹

It trades on KOSDAQ, the exchange's market for growth companies, by an unusual route: the unlisted JYP became the largest shareholder of a company already on KOSDAQ in December 2010, then merged into it in 2013, and that listed company, now JYP Entertainment, had been on KOSDAQ since 2001. At the end of 2025 J.Y. Park held 15.37% of the company, which employed 496 people at the parent and had 11 subsidiaries.¹

For fiscal 2025 JYP reported revenue of ₩821.9 billion, up 36.6% and, it says, a company record, and operating profit of ₩155.2 billion, up 21.0% (an 18.9% margin). Its net profit of ₩160.6 billion included a ₩73.2 billion gain from selling part of its stake in the fan platform DearU. Concert revenue rose 82.4% to ₩188.9 billion, another record, which JYP credited to the world tour by Stray Kids, ranked No. 10 on Billboard's Top Tours 2025.¹ JYP also made the 2015 survival show Sixteen with Mnet, which formed TWICE as a nine-member group.²