To keep things accurate to the time period, it should probably be SM and DSP for 1st gen instead. (I'm just going to skip them because tbh, I don't think I know enough groups that well, especially the ggs/co-ed groups. But I'd love to hear some opinions.) On that same note, I guess we could also argue that 2nd gen was a sort of transition period between that and the classic big 3 model (cmiiw). But for the sake of simplicity, I'm going to use SM/YG/JYP there, mainly because I feel like discussions of 2nd gen today very much reflect the now historical dominance of that three. I'm trying to choose only one bg and gg for each: 2nd gen - Beast - Kara (if we don't count DSP after all, then maybe T-ara) 3rd gen (only considering their origins and not that they would later become Hybe groups) - BTS (but if we disqualify them for being too much of an obvious answer (and Seventeen for similar reasons), Wanna One) - Gfriend 4th gen (now we're entering the big 4 era) - Ateez - IVE 5th gen (as of right now) - ZB1 - Kiss Of Life submitted by /u/Loud_Kaleidoscope818 [link] [comments]