The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2014 in music in South Korea.

• January 16 – Exo and Psy win the Album and Digital Daesangs, respectively, at the Golden Disc Awards.
• January 23 – The 23rd Seoul Music Awards take place. Exo wins the grand prize.
• February 28 – Sunwoo Jung-a, Cho Yong-pil and Yoon Young-bae win the grand prizes at the annual Korean Music Awards.
• March 11 – With the release of Tree, TVXQ becomes the first foreign band in Japan to have three consecutive studio albums with first-week sales of over 200,000 copies, breaking Bon Jovi's thirteen-year record.^[1]
• March 15 – 2NE1's Crush becomes the first album by a Korean artist to chart within the top 100 on the Billboard 200, entering at number 61. It also marked the first time two K-pop artists appeared on the chart at the same time, along with Girls' Generation's Mr.Mr.^[2]
• May 7 – Exo's Overdose records nearly 660,000 pre-orders, breaking the record at the time for most pre-orders for a single album in K-pop.^[3]
• June 12 – Taeyang's Rise becomes the highest charting album on the Billboard 200 at the time by a K-pop solo artist, peaking at number 112.^[4]
• June 23 – TVXQ become the first international artist in Japan to bring in the largest number of concertgoers in the previous three years, reaching over 2 million total attendees during the timeframe.^[5]
• July 14 – Through three concert tours in Japan since 2011, Girls' Generation attracted a cumulative total of 550,000 spectators, setting a record for a K-pop girl group.^[6]
• September 21 – Super Junior become the first Korean artist to perform a total of 100 concerts worldwide.^[7]
• September 30 – SM Entertainment announces Jessica's departure from Girls' Generation.^[8]
• October 11 – "I Am the Best" by 2NE1 becomes the first song by a K-pop group to top the World Digital Song Sales chart, following its usage in Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 advertisement campaign in the US.^[9]
• November 13 – IU, g.o.d, and Taeyang win the grand prizes at the 2014 Melon Music Awards.^[10]
• November 17 – The 5th Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards take place. Myeong Kook-hwan is awarded with the Bogwan (Precious Crown) Order of Cultural Merit; Kim Kwang-seok, I Yu-sin, Hong Seung-seong and Yoo Young-jin are awarded with the Presidential Commendation; and Jin Mi-ryeong receives the Prime Minister's Commendation.^[11]
• December 1 – Psy's "Gangnam Style" surpasses 2.15 billion views, forcing YouTube to upgrade to a 64-bit integer counter.^[12]
• December 3 – Exo and Taeyang receive the grand prizes at the 2014 MAMA.^[13]
• December 22 – Crush becomes the first K-pop album to appear on the year-end Billboard World Albums listing since the chart began in 1995.^[14]

• Yoo Chae-yeong, 40, singer and actress
• Kwon Ri-se, 23, singer (Ladies' Code)
• Kim Ja-ok, 63, actress and singer
• Go Eun-bi, 21, singer (Ladies' Code)
• Shin Hae-chul, 46, singer (N.EX.T)

• 2014 in South Korea
• List of South Korean films of 2014