Erin Kay's Blog, page 5
September 8, 2022
Content schedule!!

Dear Infinities, I'm so excited to announce that I have a content calendar planned for the coming months, from character art to short stories to Book 2 sneak peaks! I hope this will help satisfy your appetite for KOSMIC content while I continue to work on Kosmic Book 2, which realistically, should be released sometime in the first half of 2023. Thanks for your understanding!
While I chose the dates based on members' birthdays (so many birthdays to celebrate!), the associated content doesn't necessarily relate to that member... unless somehow it does. ;)
I'll update this when I have more details about future content. Things may move around a bit. I may also drop surprise content... I know that you all are here for KOSMIC content and I plan to deliver!!!
Without further ado, here's some content you can look forward to in the coming months!
The KOSMIC Official Content Schedule: October 19 (Haru's birthday) Hidden Kosmic Heart Epilogue!! <3 October 28 (Byunho's birthday) Kosmic Book 2 title & synopsis reveal ;) November (date TBD) Changmin photocard! December 17 (Jaesung's birthday) Character art for Hajun & Aera <3 Aera & Hajun short storyJanuary 13 (Tai's birthday) Tai photocard!February (date TBD)Sneak peak of Kosmic Book 2!!Byunho photocard!Bonus content schedule!!

Dear Infinities, I'm so excited to announce that I have a content calendar planned for the coming months, from character art to short stories to Book 2 sneak peaks! I hope this will help satisfy your appetite for KOSMIC content while I continue to work on Kosmic Book 2, which realistically, should be released sometime in the first half of 2023. Thanks for your understanding!
While I chose the dates based on members' birthdays (so many birthdays to celebrate!), the associated content doesn't necessarily relate to that member... unless somehow it does. ;)
I'll update this when I have more details about future content. Things may move around a bit. I may also drop surprise content, or brain-dump posts where I talk about writing and myself too much... but you all are here for KOSMIC content and I plan to deliver!!!
Without further ado, here's some content you can look forward to in the coming months!
The KOSMIC Official Content Schedule: October 19 (Haru's birthday) Hidden Kosmic Heart Epilogue!! <3 October 28 (Byunho's birthday) Kosmic Book 2 title & synopsis reveal ;) November (date TBD) Changmin photocard! December 17 (Jaesung's birthday) Character art for Hajun & Aera <3 Aera & Hajun short storyJanuary 13 (Tai's birthday) Tai photocard!February (date TBD)Sneak peak of Kosmic Book 2!!Byunho photocard!September 5, 2022
Updates, commissioning character art(?)

Hi, Infinities! ∞ How are you? I'm currently broke AF because my new full-time job doesn't start for another week and a half (writing K-pop romance isn't enough to pay the bills just yet, haha). Anyway, some updates—
KOSMIC Official now supports comments on all its posts!! Please feel free to share your thoughts—this is a safe space. Have you checked out the Spotify playlists I made? I polished up the longer KOSMIC playlist since I first shared it, and it really pops off in my opinion :p If KOSMIC Official emails keep going to your "promotions" or "spam" tabs in Gmail, I've written a tutorial for how to fix this here. I'm working on Book 2, about 1/4 of the way through the first draft right now (I know, I'm slowww). I have a title but I'm not telling yet :p Finally, I've had some readers ask me about character art and now I'm toying with the idea of commissioning fanart of my characters from different K-pop fanartists. If you'd like to help me commission quality character art (which will potentially be made into photocards!), I've added a "tip jar" to the website so that you can support my writing and bonus content. Commissioning art can be fairly expensive (around $65-$100) so if you want to see this art happen, help me make it happen!! Help me commission character art!<3 secure payment linkThank you and I love you <3
-Erin
August 28, 2022
Spotify playlists

Hi, Infinities! ∞ I hope you're all doing well. This past week has had some rather stressful developments in my personal life, but I'm continuing to work on writing Book 2 of the KOSMIC series. I wanted to share some much-requested Spotify playlists that I've finally made!
Kosmic Heart inspired playlist**I also have an identical YouTube playlist which has Lost Stars covered by Jungkook and City of Stars covered by Bangchan, Lia, and Felix
2. KOSMIC inspired playlist
I'll update this page when I make more playlists. :) If you have any song suggestions please drop them in the comments <3
August 21, 2022
CKM Entertainment

CKM Entertainment is a subsidiary company of CKM Group, a management and production agency for actors and musicians. CKM Ent. was founded in 1999 and has produced and managed various successful actors and musicians, including K-Pop groups. The two most successful and currently active K-Pop groups with the company are the boy group KOSMIC and the girl group BADKITTY.
CKM Group, owned by Kim Chulwoo, is a conglomerate of companies in various sectors and was founded by Kim Chulwoo’s grandfather, Kim Changkyun (CKM). CKM Group is run by a board of directors which includes Kim Chulwoo as its President/Chairman. On this board of directors are the other CEOs, COOs, and CFOs Chulwoo has appointed to each of the Group’s subsidiary companies. The Vice President/Vice Chairwoman of CKM Group is Kim Chulwoo’s daughter, Kim Aera, an alum of Harvard and Chulwoo's only child.
Some notable companies within CKM Group include an airline, founded by Chulwoo’s father, engineering firms, an energy company, an agricultural management company, and various manufacturing companies. To be clear, CKM Group is massive and holds a good deal of international importance, so these are only a handful of the most important industries which CKM Group is involved in.
When Kim Chulwoo inherited CKM Group from his father, Kim Changwook, he made some changes. One of CKM Group’s key tenants now is its emphasis on sustainability, particularly in the green energy and green fuel research sectors. The Group’s airline prioritizes use of biofuel for jet fuel, which some of its other companies play a role in manufacturing. Most of the airline's flights are powered by jet biofuel, helping to reduce carbon emissions. CKM Group also invests a significant amount of money into climate research.
Kim Chulwoo’s wife, famous ballad singer and actress Kang Areum, founded CKM Entertainment in 1999. The entertainment agency was a gift from Chulwoo to his wife after their marriage in 1997. Their marriage was a huge scandal of the late 90s—Chulwoo was engaged to the daughter of another chaebol family, but called off the marriage and married a well-known entertainer instead. As Kim Chulwoo was the only heir to CKM Group, this made it an even bigger scandal and the family lost some face in the upper class of Korea, their status only maintained by their financial power.
Kang Areum ran CKM Ent. as its CEO until she passed away from cancer. During the 16 years that she ran the company, it became one of the "big four/five" of entertainment agencies in South Korea. Chulwoo took over as its CEO after his wife’s passing, rather than entrusting its management to one of his wife’s employees.
CKM Ent.'s hit boy group KOSMIC debuted in 2019 and became an international success.
In 2022, current CKM Group Vice Chairwoman, Kim Aera, was revealed to be in a relationship with Yun Hajun, a K-Pop idol from the boy group KOSMIC. A former manager of KOSMIC broke company rules, along with his employment contract, and sold photographs of the couple to the press to pay off a personal debt. The public was shocked by the relationship between a popular K-Pop idol and a chaebol heiress. The scandal was an echo of the scandal of Kim Aera's parents.
At a press conference in response to the scandal, it was announced that CKM Ent. would change its dating policies for its idols, removing the restrictive dating ban. Despite this change, as a result of the scandal Yun Hajun left KOSMIC and began his career as a solo artist under CKM Entertainment.
It is currently unknown to the world whether Kim Aera and Yun Hajun's relationship survived the scandal of being revealed to the public.
[Disclaimer: All of this information is fictionalized and for the purpose of entertainment. Any mention of companies, groups, or names of characters are used in a fictional capacity and are not intended to represent reality.]
CKM Entertainment [Wiki page]
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CKM Entertainment is a subsidiary company of CKM Group, a management and production agency for actors and musicians. CKM Ent. was founded in 1999 and has produced and managed various successful actors and musicians, including K-Pop groups. The two most successful and currently active K-Pop groups with the company are the boy group KOSMIC and the girl group BADKITTY.
CKM Group, owned by Kim Chulwoo, is a conglomerate of companies in various sectors and was founded by Kim Chulwoo’s grandfather, Kim Changkyun (CKM). CKM Group is run by a board of directors which includes Kim Chulwoo as its President/Head Chairman. On this board of directors are other “Chairmen,” including the CEOs, COOs, and CFOs Chulwoo has appointed to each of the Group’s subsidiary companies. The Vice President/Vice Chairwoman of CKM Group is Kim Chulwoo’s daughter, Kim Aera, an alum of Harvard and Chulwoo's only child.
Some notable companies within CKM Group include an airline, founded by Chulwoo’s father, engineering firms, an energy company, an agricultural management company, and various manufacturing companies. To be clear, CKM Group is massive and holds a good deal of international importance, so these are only a handful of the most important industries which CKM Group is involved in.
When Kim Chulwoo inherited CKM Group from his father, Kim Changwook, he made some changes. One of CKM Group’s key tenants now is its emphasis on sustainability, particularly in the green energy and green fuel research sectors. The Group’s airline prioritizes use of green jet fuel, which some of its other companies play a role in manufacturing. Most of the airline's flights are powered by green jet fuel, offsetting carbon emissions.
Kim Chulwoo’s wife, famous singer Han Areum, founded CKM Entertainment in 1999. Han Areum ran CKM Ent. as its CEO until she passed away from lung cancer sometime around 2015 or 2016. Chulwoo took over as its CEO after his wife’s passing, rather than entrusting its management to one of his wife’s employees.
In 2022, current CKM Group Vice Chairwoman, Kim Aera, was revealed to be in a relationship with Yun Hajun, a K-Pop idol from the boy group KOSMIC. A former manager of KOSMIC broke company rules, along with his employment contract, and sold photographs of the couple to the press to pay off a debt. The public was shocked by the relationship between a popular K-Pop idol and a chaebol heiress.
At a press conference in response to the scandal, it was announced that CKM Ent. would change its dating policies for its idols, removing the overly restrictive dating ban. Despite this change, as a result of the scandal Yun Hajun left KOSMIC and began his career as a solo artist under CKM Entertainment.
It is currently unknown whether Kim Aera and Yun Hajun's relationship survived the scandal of being revealed to the public.
August 19, 2022
Kosmic Heart bookmarks

Hi, Infinities! ∞ As promised, here are the Kosmic Heart bookmarks! These are going to be another freebie—all I ask is that before you request a bookmark with the form below (the same form some of you filled out to get "KOSMIC official fanclub" stickers), you leave a lil review for Kosmic Heart on Goodreads if you use it and/or whichever store you bought the book from (Amazon, B&N, etc)—this helps me reach more readers and is the only payment I want or need! <3


P.S. If there's a problem and you haven't received your freebies by more than a week after requesting them, shoot me an email at erinkayauthor@gmail.com to let me know and we'll get it sorted out!
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