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Korea’s top indie showcase festival Zandari Festa is back once again in Hongdae next weekend. This year 140 acts will be playing across 10 music venues between Friday 29th September and Sunday 1st October.
Established names in Korean music including Galaxy Express, Idiotape, 3rd Line Butterfly and Neon Bunny…
This is the second part in a series on the meaning of K-pop as a genre. Apologies to everyone for the huge delay.
Step 1: Casting
Step 2: Training
Step 3: Producing
Step 4: Marketing
This is the 4-step process founder Lee Soo-man laid out describing how…
Turns out R&B singer DEAN (or is it DΞΔN?) is so popular in the UK, concert organisers have put on a second date in London after the first one sold out.
Tickets are on sale for the gig at KOKO in Camden on Saturday the 24th June…
UPDATE: There has been some confusion over the event because the KCCUK have deleted their initial Facebook post but according to event organisers Audience the event is still going ahead as announced.
Looks like this year’s London Korean Festival is back with a bigger K-pop lineup than ever…
Ask a Korean recently wrote a blog post called K-Pop is Not a Genre in which he argues that K-pop is not a musical genre (as you may have guessed). (He has since also written another.)
As much respect as I have for the author, I have reservations…
Last night, the world shook on its axis as BTS won the Billboard Music Award for Best Social Artist. As the the first K-Pop group to ever even be nominated for the BBMAs, there was little to no chance that BTS would win.
Oh no, wait.
Last night BTS…
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It was a fairly sunny and warm evening in Glasgow (at least for a early May evening in Scotland) when I headed over from Edinburgh to see Say Sue Me play their sole Scottish date in their UK tour. The venue chosen, the CCA in the city centre, is known…
There’s just something about April in Korea. Alongside the annual cherry blossom bloomings and yellow dust warnings, the month also tends to bring threats of war from North of the border and challenges for the country’s increasingly visible LGBT population.
The Korean Queer Culture Festival is once again…