Spark Entertainment

**Spark Entertainment** is a South Korean record label and entertainment agency founded by Serenity Park on February 21, 2015. They are the company behind **NXT, Astrolight**, and **Blueflame**.

## **Current Artists**

**With Sunrise Entertainment**

* Minjae (2019 - Present)
* Eunha (2030 - Present)
* Ruby (2030 - Present)
* Alex (2030 - Present)
* Yejoon (2030 - Present)

## **Former Artists**

* NXT (2019 - 2031)
	+ Lucas (2019 - 2029)
	+ Jason (2019 - 2030)
* Astrolight (2025 - 2032)
	+ SYN (2028 - 2032)
* Blueflame (2030 - 2031)
	+ Mei (2030 - 2031)
	+ Taehyun (2030 - 2032)

* Jonathan (2030 - 2031)

### **Trainees**

**Males**

* Yeosang (2016 - 2019)
* Henry (2016 - 2019)
* Xiu Ying (2018 - 2024)
* Minho (2019 - 2025)
* Minhyuk (2020 - 2025)
* Kevin (2021 - 2025)
* Taeyong (2023 - 2025)
* Yongguk (2028 - 2029)
* Hiroto (2028 - 2031)
* Drew (2030)
* James (2030)

**Females**

* Jiyeon (2018 - 2020)
* Mina (2019 - 2024)
* Yuki Sato (2020 - 2025)
* Tiffany (2021 - 2025)
* Jenna (2025)
* Tian Hua (2028 - 2029)
* Soyeon (2028 - 2030)
* Isabel (2028 - 2031)
* Veronica (2029)
* Mei Li (2029 - 2031)

## **Scandals**

### **January - February 2020: *Loveshot* sounds like *Cherry Pop***

In January 2020 when Spark Entertainment began releasing teasers for NXT's upcoming digital single *Loveshot*, Happiness fans accused the company of plagiarizing the song as the music video teasers sounded like a masculine version of *Cherry Pop*, which was released in May 2019. The Happiness fandom, Smiles, were upset that Spark Entertainment would be profiting off the group's song, which did not garner enough attention. This in turn angered NXT fans, accusing Smiles of causing drama between the two fandoms before the song was even released and for wanting NXT to fail as a group because *Cherry Pop* didn't succeed.

SA Entertainment and Spark Entertainment made no comments or statements as both groups had small fandoms at the time and the scandal didn't reach them. Spark Entertainment would continue to release teasers, which angered Smiles further, and *Loveshot* would be released in February 2020. With the song's release and music video shortly after, fans of both groups would discover the only similarity between the two songs would be the vibe.

### **2022 - 2023: Where's that group?**

In early 2022, Spark Entertainment announced they would be debuting a new girl group with no further information released. At the time of announcement, fans of NXT were upset with the company debuting a new group when they couldn't provide proper promotions for their current and only group. Over the course of the year, there would continue to be a lack of information, which would not only anger Nexus further, but beyond the fandom as well as they began to believe the information and announcement was falsified. Further evidence showed the announcement was deleted a few months after the initial.

This would later be revealed there were lineup issues that pushed back the group's debut to 2025, however, fans were mostly upset with the lack of acknowledgement and apology, and a few believed Blueflame's pre-debut announcement would be an accident as well.

### **December 2025: Trainee Cut**

Shortly after Raina Kim took over as CEO, all trainees in the company were let go and their contracts terminated out of the blue. Fans theorize the trainees may have been warned a day or two ahead of time, though, however, it is possible the cut may have been officiated by Serenity Park after discussions with Kim. While fans support the choice due to the lack of support for their current artists, many fans were angry over the timing as it would be during the holiday season.

### **November 2030: Jason's Lawsuit**

Jason filed a lawsuit against his former company after noticing one of his songs used in Sophia's mini album, which had released not too long ago. While he personally had no issues with the song being used (*Night Falls* was originally written for himself or Sophia), he did have an issue with the lack of credit and reuse for Blueflame. This lawsuit would later be dropped in February 2031, after he and Kim came to an agreement that he would receive a cut of the profits.

### **February - April 2031: Text Message Leaking**

In early February, screenshots of text messages began showing up, although it would be unknown at the time. By March, it would be revealed that Spark Entertainment was the company affected as tensions rose between the CEO at the time, Raina Kim, and the founder, Serenity Park, and part of their exchanges were leaked. More messages would be leaked over the month, revealing the mistreatment from the founder over the years, which led to many of their artists, trainees and staff members leaving the company.