Does your group have a lightstick? Start here
You found the group two weeks ago, and then a fancam (a fan-shot concert video) showed you a crowd holding the same glowing object, in the same colour, moving at the same time. The next question writes itself: does your group have one, and did you miss a memo? This guide answers it for the groups fans ask about most, names the ones that still have none, and covers the questions that come next. For any other group, our K-pop lightstick database has a straight answer for 50+ groups.
A lightstick is a group’s official concert light: the company behind the group licenses and sells it, so it has nothing in common with a glow stick from a party shop. Most lightsticks carry a name, and most of those names end in bong (봉, simply the Korean word for stick). That is where Bang Bong, Candy Bong and Carat Bong come from. The other term you will meet below is the fandom name, the official name for a group’s fans: ARMY, BLINK, STAY, ONCE, CARAT.
🔗 If you’re new to the object itself, start with our guide to what a K-pop lightstick is, which covers what the thing actually does before you worry about which one to get.
“No” is a normal answer
Here is the part nobody in this corner of the internet says out loud. Plenty of groups do not have an official lightstick yet, including some very large ones. A few have something else entirely: ITZY, for example, carry an official light ring rather than a stick. Not having one yet doesn’t mean your group is small, or that you picked wrong. Instead, it means their company hasn’t gotten to it. In fact, the whole category is younger than most people assume: the first one arrived in 2006.
If you’re looking for one specific group, search all 50+ groups in the Lightstick Database →
🔗 Want curated picks instead of the full list? Read 10 Must-Have K-Pop Lightsticks for Your Collection in 2026.
Quick answers: does your group have a lightstick?
These are the groups new fans ask about most right now, CORTIS by a wide margin. Short answers here; the full row for each group is in the Lightstick Database.
Does CORTIS have a lightstick?
Yes, CORTIS released its first official lightstick in 2026, so there is only one version so far (Ver.1). HYBE sells it simply as the CORTIS Official Light Stick, with no official nickname so far. If you’re COER, the CORTIS fandom, you can order the CORTIS lightstick here, or see the CORTIS row.
Does ILLIT have a lightstick?
Yes, ILLIT’s official lightstick came out in 2025, and Ver.1 is still the only version. GLLIT, the ILLIT fandom, use it to light up the venue together at the group’s concerts. Shop the ILLIT lightstick or see the ILLIT row.
Does BABYMONSTER have a lightstick?
Yes, BABYMONSTER released its official lightstick in 2024, and there is one version so far. MONSTIEZ, the BABYMONSTER fandom, use it at the group’s concerts. If you’re going to a show, our BABYMONSTER concert essentials checklist covers everything else in the bag. Shop the BABYMONSTER lightstick or see the BABYMONSTER row.
Does LE SSERAFIM have a lightstick?
Yes, and it has a name: the FIMBONG, released in 2023 and still on Ver.1. FEARNOT, the LE SSERAFIM fandom, are the people holding it at every show. Shop the LE SSERAFIM FIMBONG or see the LE SSERAFIM row.
Does KATSEYE have a lightstick?
Yes, KATSEYE’s official lightstick launched in 2025 (Ver.1), and fans named it: EYELIGHTER won a fan naming contest, announced in October 2025. The full-size one is restocking in our shop right now. If you’re an EYEKON and don’t want to wait, the KATSEYE mini lightstick keyring is in stock, and you can also see the KATSEYE row.
Does ITZY have a lightstick?
Sort of, and it’s the one edge case on this list. ITZY’s official light is a ring you hold, not a stick on a handle. There have been two versions since 2020, and MIDZY treat it exactly like a lightstick, so we count it as one. Shop the ITZY light ring or see the ITZY row.
Every other group: the Lightstick Database
For every other group, the answer lives in one place: our K-pop lightstick database. It covers 50+ groups with the official lightstick name, the fandom name, every version, the release year and the current price, and you can search it by group, lightstick or fandom. We re-check every row in the first week of each month, so that page always carries the latest date.
🔗 If you’re not ready for a full-size lightstick, the mini lightstick and keyring collection is where most new fans start, with the same licence at a third of the size and a fraction of the price.
Groups that don’t have an official lightstick (yet)
These groups come up constantly, but we could not confirm an official lightstick for any of them on our last check, so we name them here instead of giving each one a database row that would say nothing eleven times over: BABYMETAL, Wave to Earth, Dreamcatcher, Eric Nam, EVERGLOW, KARD, The Rose, XIKERS, 1VERSE, ALL DAY PROJECT and KIIIKIII. Several of them tour regularly and have done for years, and even so, none of them has a lightstick.
Two cases need spelling out, because both come up more than the rest combined.
ITZY is the argument everyone has, because MIDZY (ITZY’s fandom) do have an official light: a ring you hold like a tambourine, not a stick on a handle. JYP licences it, it is real, and it will not look like anything else in the venue. That is a design decision rather than an oversight, and our database gives it its own answer.
Red Velvet, meanwhile, sat on our shortlist of groups without one, and it should not have. ReVeluv (Red Velvet’s fandom) have the Kim Mam Bong, named in August 2018 after kimchi mandu, or kimchi dumplings, because of the shape. We caught it before this page went live and corrected it. That is exactly what the next section is about.
How we verify our lightstick data (and how to tell us we’re wrong)
Every row in the database goes through the same three checks. First, we cross-reference existence and version history against official artist and agency announcements, then against the public fan references that have tracked this subject longest. Second, prices for stocked groups come straight from our live catalogue on the day of the update, never from a saved figure. Third, we check each fandom name against the announcement that introduced it, because several have changed: ILLIT went from LILLY to GLLIT, for example, and FIFTY FIFTY from Hunnies to TWENY.
Unconfirmed means exactly that: it is not a no, and it is certainly not a placeholder for something we will guess later. Rather, it means two independent sources disagreed, or no source we trust said anything at all. Release year is the thinnest field in this entire subject (not one of the major reference pages dates a lightstick), so most of that column starts as Unconfirmed, and we fill it in one row at a time.
If a row is wrong, tell us, because a dated announcement or an official store listing is enough, and the correction goes in on the next pass rather than the next quarter.
🔗 The same standard runs our most-read guide: How to Tell If Your Lightstick Is Official.
Lightstick questions new fans actually ask
BIGBANG, whose Bang Bong arrived in 2006 and set the template everything else copied. We tell the full story in the BIGBANG lightstick guide.
Most do, but not all, and the name usually ends in bong, simply the Korean word for stick, and a fan vote decides it more often than the company does. For example, newer groups sometimes ship the product first and name it months later. Where our database says Unconfirmed, that is the situation.
Nothing, if you don’t want to, because in practice venues are full of people with no lightstick at all, and the wave still works around them. We go through the options in do you need a lightstick at a K-pop concert.
Check the hologram sticker, the serial code and whether it pairs with the group’s app. However, a counterfeit will usually pass on looks and fail on sync. Our full checklist is in how to tell if your lightstick is official.
Nobody has an exact number, and anyone quoting one is guessing. Groups debut every month, companies retire old versions quietly, and English-language coverage of solo releases barely exists. Our lightstick database covers 50+ groups, and it grows on every monthly re-check.
The two lightsticks people ask about most
Two of these come up more than the rest: the one with the longest version history, and the one that started the whole category.
New lightsticks every month
Groups debut and new versions drop all the time, so a guide like this can only go so far. The Lightstick Database is where we track them: we re-check it in the first week of every month, and a new lightstick announcement or a price move in our catalogue triggers a re-check straight away.
🔗 Found your group and want the actual thing? Everything currently in stock is in the K-pop lightsticks collection.
If your group came back as No, that is the least interesting fact about them.
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