`Hitman' Worth $770 Million With K-Pop Craze Rocking the Planet

Creator of Korean boy band is among music trend’s big winners
Bang Si-hyuk rides high as BTS triumphs on social media

K-Pop's 'Hitman' Worth $770M

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By Yoojung Lee, Sohee Kim, and Pei Yi Mak

April 9, 2019 at 4:00 PM UTC

Updated on

April 10, 2019 at 6:00 AM UTC

The global K-Pop music craze is generating a fortune for Bang Si-hyuk, a South Korean producer known as “Hitman.”

Thanks to legions of fans obsessively devoted to boy band BTS, known collectively as the Army, the estimated value of his production company has soared, making him one of the biggest winners in the K-Pop boom. Bang, 46, is worth $770 million, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.