BLACKPINK's Four Members Named for South Korea's Jade Crown Order of Cultural Merit

All four members of BLACKPINK have been named recipients of South Korea's Jade Crown Order of Cultural Merit, adding individual government honors to the group's 10th anniversary year. Rosé, Lisa, Jennie and Jisoo are included in the announced list for the 2026 Korea Popular Culture and Arts Awards in Seoul.The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency announced 36 individual and group recipients across the awards' categories. The ceremony is scheduled for Oct. 29 at the National Theater of Korea. The announcement establishes the honors; it does not establish whether the four members will attend in person.BLACKPINK's decoration is the Okgwan, translated as Jade Crown. Yonhap's Korean-language report specifies that each of the four members is receiving it. That makes the announcement more specific than a single collective award to BLACKPINK: all four names appear among the cultural-order recipients.The award's grade also matters when describing it in English. The Jade Crown is the fourth of the Order of Cultural Merit's five grades, rather than its highest level. Other recipients on this year's list are receiving different grades, so calling BLACKP...