Company

Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea)

South Korean record company of the Sony BMG group from 2004, renamed Sony Music Entertainment Korea in 2009.

Registered in: 🇰🇷 South Korea
Owned by: Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Products here: 2

Who owns Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea)

Every company above Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea), the top of the group first, each tie from a cited source.

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    🇯🇵 Sony Group Corporation Also recorded as Sony Music Entertainment's group
    ownssince 1 August 2019
    🇺🇸 Sony Music Group
    ownssince 1 August 2019
  🇺🇸 Sony Music Entertainment
  owns
🇰🇷 Sony Music Entertainment Korea
new name2009

Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea)

Earlier

Owned by 🇺🇸 Sony BMG Music Entertainment2004 to 2009

What the sources say about these ties

Sony Music Entertainment Korea new name: MusicBrainz records the rename to Sony Music Entertainment Korea Inc.; Discogs says it was succeeded in 2009 by that company

Barcodes that start with Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea)'s number

GS1 licenses blocks of barcode numbers to companies. The first digits of a barcode name the company, the rest name the product and end in a check digit.

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the companythe product
Seen on 2 packs that name Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea); no source confirms the holder yet, for example 8803581110975

About Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea)

Sony BMG Music Entertainment Korea Inc. was the South Korean record company of the Sony BMG Music Entertainment group from 2004 to 2009, owned by Sony BMG Music Entertainment.^[1] Discogs files it under Sony BMG Music Entertainment as its parent label, and its contact details there are a Korean-language privacy notice with a sonybmg.com address.^[2] It is credited as the distributor of the South Korean CD edition of Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine (2005).^[3]

The company succeeded Sony Music Entertainment (Korea) Inc. and was itself succeeded in 2009 by Sony Music Entertainment Korea Inc.^[4] MusicBrainz records that change as a rename of the same company, in step with its owner Sony BMG Music Entertainment becoming Sony Music Entertainment in the same year.^[1]

Distributes 1

Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea) brings these to a market; someone else makes them.

Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine (CD, South Korea)Distributes Epic Records 🇰🇷 8803581110975

Barcode issued under its prefix 1

The barcode sits in a block of numbers GS1 licensed to Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea).

Jill Scott – Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 (CD, South Korea 2004)Prefix holder Hidden Beach Recordings 🇰🇷 8803581233087

References

↑ MusicBrainz label: Sony BMG Music Entertainment Korea Inc. MusicBrainz. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-27. Record: c3676baf-091c-41e8-98f9-93367f899fbf. name, life-span, label ownership, label rename. CC0.
↑ Discogs label 55834: Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea) Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-27. Record: 55834. contact info, parent label. CC0.
↑ Discogs release 33941049: Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine (CD, Album, South Korea, 2005) Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-26. Record: 33941049. identifiers, labels, companies, credits, tracklist. CC0.
↑ Discogs label 252167: Sony BMG Music Entertainment Korea Inc. Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-27. Record: 252167. profile, parent label. CC0.

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