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…
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…
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…
As part of their ongoing legal battle, Kim Hyun-joong’s ex-girlfriend is set to stand trial in March accused of manipulating evidence and defaming Kim Hyun-joong. Yesterday, before she was actually charged, Korean news outlet OSEN published an “exclusive” leaked report detailing the prosecutor’s evidence and…
The cast and crew of SNL Korea have been in hot water lately after videos emerged of some female cast members groping male guests (with the jeering support of their colleagues) as part of a bizarre pre-recording hazing ritual. And when I say “emerged” I mean it was posted…
After the awful news coming out of Orlando today, we had to share a lovely, heartwarming moment from Seoul Pride yesterday. By all accounts this year’s parade was a success with an estimated 50,000 people turning out. That’s apparently almost twice as many as last year which…
Korean rapper and Show Me The Money contestant Andup is coming to London as part of a European tour.
The itinerary is as follows:
17 June 2016 – Helsinki, Finland – Gloria
19 June 2016 – London, UK – Surya
24 June 2016 – Berlin…
Gangnam subway entrance no. 10 in Seocho has been covered in post-it notes and flowers after a 23-year-old woman was allegedly murdered by a stranger who admitted after his arrest that he hated women for ignoring him.
The suspect is thought to have been in a unisex…
This is part of a series of articles exploring LGBT issues in Korea in the run up to Pride 2016.
The 17th May is known as International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia where people around the world take a stand against discrimination and stand up for LGBT rights. Here in…
This is part of a series of articles exploring LGBT issues in Korea in the run up to Pride 2016.
Conservative news channel TV Chosun recently broadcast a report on how homosexuality is increasing among teenagers in Korea. As you might expect from a right-wing Korean news outlet, it…