A South Korean startup, Pinkfong, transformed from a small digital-content company into a multi-million dollar enterprise, largely driven by the viral success of the children's song 'Baby Shark'.

Shares of South Korean entertainment firm The Pinkfong Company, producer of the popular children's song "Baby Shark," surged more than 60% in their market debut. Since its release in 2016, the "Baby ...

When a humble Seoul startup uploaded a 90-second nursery rhyme to YouTube in June 2016, nobody, not even its co-founder and CEO Kim Min-seok, imagined it would become the most recognisable jingle on ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Baby Shark” — a video version of a children’s song and associated dance — has been seen more than 16bn times ...

[SEOUL] Shares of South Korean entertainment firm The Pinkfong Company, producer of the popular children’s song Baby Shark, surged more than 60 per cent in their market debut on Tuesday (Nov 18).

The Pinkfong Company, the production studio behind the global sensation “Baby Shark," made its stock market debut on Korea's secondary bourse Kosdaq on Tuesday, closing about 9 percent above its ...

Founded in 2010, Pinkfong was a little-known entertainment company until its “Baby Shark Dance” children music video on YouTube exploded in popularity in 2018. Pinkfong, the Seoul-based studio behind ...

When Kim Min-seok gave the go-ahead in June 2016 to publish a 90-second clip of a children's song, he had no idea what he was unleashing. It became a global phenomenon, clocking up more than 16 ...

SEOUL—“Baby Shark Dance,” the aggravatingly addictive children’s tune, is YouTube’s most-watched video ever. It has been played, on average, more than 4.7 million times a day since its 2016 upload.

“Baby Shark Dance” became a global earworm almost a decade ago, but the viral jingle — which has racked up more than 16 billion views on YouTube — still ranks among the internet’s most recognizable ...