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JAKOPS, CEO & Executive Producer of XGALX XGALX JAKOPS knows a lot about identity. The 39-year-old CEO and Executive Producer of XGALX, the company behind global sensations XG, is of mixed Japanese and Korean descent and born in the United States but raised in Japan. He joined the South Korean boy band DMTN in 2010 and later became a producer, establishing his own entertainment company, JAKOPS, which later launched XGALX. He understands that business and music trends are constantly shifting, and that everyone – especially his artists – has their own evolving journey as individuals and as a group. “XGALX is more than just a production company that trains groups and pushes artists in the world,” JAKOPS (real name SIMON JUNHO PARK) says through a translator. “It goes much further beyond the commercial success of individual artists. There has to be a long-term plan for how that fits into their identities and their journey.” JAKOPS doesn’t believe in being bound by any existing form or system. It’s why XGALX values individuality and unique worldviews, breaking through various traditional norms, fixed ideas, and barriers. It’s also another reason XG looks and feels so different than other musical acts. The septet – comprised of members Jurin, Chisa, Hinata, Harvey, Juria, Maya, and Cocona – all each has their own style and freedom to express themselves. It’s why their new album is called THE CORE, with its meaning (核) representing their “core” or “nucleus” (internal) beliefs, essence, values, and identities, especially in their music. “This journey that we’ve gone on with X-Pop is really a declaration of what that means,” he explains. “It’s going to have a huge diversity of genres, and show a new side to XG that people haven’t seen before. But what’s most important is what’s at the core –…

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