Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea): version 2
Saved 2026-09-27 01:03 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled both flags. Confirmed from MusicBrainz label c3676baf (label ownership and label rename, life-span 2004–2009) and Discogs label 252167 (parent Sony BMG Music Entertainment; succeeded in 2009 by Sony Music Entertainment Korea Inc.) that this is the 2004–2009 name of the company now at company/sony-music-entertainment-korea, whose page already carries the matching renamed_from row. Added owned_by company/sony-bmg-music-entertainment (2004–2009, verified: MusicBrainz and Discogs agree) and renamed_to company/sony-music-entertainment-korea (from 2009); the current owner is carried on the successor page, and the owner chain continues on sony-bmg-music-entertainment. No dissolved date was set because the sources describe a rename of the same entity, not a dissolution. Added legal_name, a disambiguation, a legal alias and a search alias, rewrote the summary, and added a second About paragraph on the predecessor and successor. References added: mb-sbmg-kr, discogs-252167; discogs-sbmg-kr re-accessed.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea) <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea)
disambiguation: Sony BMG's South Korean company, 2004 to 2009, renamed Sony Music Entertainment Korea; not the earlier Sony Music Entertainment (Korea) Inc.
summary: South Korean record company of the Sony BMG group from 2004, renamed Sony Music Entertainment Korea in 2009.
legal_name: Sony BMG Music Entertainment Korea Inc.
country: KR
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---------- | -------------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | -------- | ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/sony-bmg-music-entertainment | | 2004 | 2009 | | verified | ^mb-sbmg-kr | MusicBrainz records Sony BMG Music Entertainment as owner of this label; Discogs files it under Sony BMG Music Entertainment as parent label |
| renamed_to | company/sony-music-entertainment-korea | | 2009 | | | verified | ^mb-sbmg-kr | MusicBrainz records the rename to Sony Music Entertainment Korea Inc.; Discogs says it was succeeded in 2009 by that company |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| --------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| SONY BMG | search | ko | | |
| Sony BMG Music Entertainment Korea Inc. | legal | en | 2004 | 2009 |
| Sony BMG Korea | search | en | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| mb-sbmg-kr | https://musicbrainz.org/label/c3676baf-091c-41e8-98f9-93367f899fbf | MusicBrainz label: Sony BMG Music Entertainment Korea Inc. | 2026-09-27 | MusicBrainz | catalogue | | c3676baf-091c-41e8-98f9-93367f899fbf | name, life-span, label ownership, label rename | CC0 | | |
| discogs-252167 | https://api.discogs.com/labels/252167 | Discogs label 252167: Sony BMG Music Entertainment Korea Inc. | 2026-09-27 | Discogs | catalogue | | 252167 | profile, parent label | CC0 | | |
| discogs-sbmg-kr | https://api.discogs.com/labels/55834 | Discogs label 55834: Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea) | 2026-09-27 | Discogs | catalogue | | 55834 | contact info, parent label | CC0 | | |
| discogs-33941049 | https://api.discogs.com/releases/33941049 | Discogs release 33941049: Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine (CD, Album, South Korea, 2005) | 2026-09-26 | Discogs | catalogue | | 33941049 | identifiers, labels, companies, credits, tracklist | CC0 | | |
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## About <!--about-->
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.[^mb-sbmg-kr] 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.[^discogs-sbmg-kr] It is credited as the distributor of the South Korean CD edition of Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine (2005).[^discogs-33941049]
The company succeeded Sony Music Entertainment (Korea) Inc. and was itself succeeded in 2009 by Sony Music Entertainment Korea Inc.[^discogs-252167] 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.[^mb-sbmg-kr]
<!--/about-->