"Glow up? What does that mean?" Sunmi asks during our interview, an hour before taking the stage at The Town Hall in New York City for a sold-out show. I first met the K-pop star in the summer of 2009 ...

“All this time, I’ve been preparing and having this journey as Sunmi, and I felt like I had enough information [to move forward],” she explains. “It was a time where I looked back at myself, looked ...

Nearly two decades into one of K-pop’s most distinctive careers, Sunmi is doing what she once viewed as too risky, too heavy and, perhaps most consequentially, too revealing: releasing her full debut ...