Wednesday 14th April is not a day President Park Geun-hye will be keen to remember in years to come. With the votes counted her party, Saenuri, are not even the largest party in the National Assembly, let alone the majority.
Voters this time round were not voting for the…
Korean indie electropop artist Neonbunny is coming to London.
She’ll be playing on 3rd June although we don’t yet have a confirmed venue for the show. It’s part of a European mini tour which features two more dates in Poland. The first is at Klub Remont in…
Many a joke has been made about the cult-like nature of K-pop fandom but now it appears an actual cult may be targeting K-pop fans.
A couple of days ago someone sent me a message on Facebook asking if they could post about an event they were…
One of the most listened to, renowned, and dynamic podcasts around right now just made an episode about K-pop.
In my real job, (and part of the reason Beyond Hallyu has been a little neglected lately) I am a radio journalist and, in my spare time, I am also…
January is apparently the month for Korean indie musicians to go all out with crowdfunding campaigns to help fund their new music. First it was Love X Stereo and now singer-songwriter Big Phony is getting in on the action.
Big Phony AKA Bobby Choy, in case you weren’t…
Wearing a plain black polo neck sans make-up looking exhausted and slightly terrified in a recording with the grainy bleakness of a hostage video, Tzuyu taught us all one thing: Chinese nationalism is scary.
Nationalism across North East Asia can be pretty…
You may remember a few months ago, we posted a survey from Master’s student Maur-Anne Griffonnet-Barge asking K-pop fans various questions about their preferences and beliefs and asked you to consider filling it out. We also said we’d be posting some of the results of…
With the both the Korean public and international K-pop fans generally more interested in idols, ballads and rappers, it can be hard for artists in other genres to make any kind of living – no matter how good they are.
That might be why LOVE X STEREO have taken things…
What a year 2015 was. 2014 saw some of the biggest challenges K-pop has ever had to face leaving many of us wondering were there was to go from here but the industry soldiered on diving head first into creating the most consistently solid music releases there’s been…
When the city of Seoul announced their new slogan “I.Seoul.U” earlier this year, they laughed. Oh how they laughed. Laughed and laughed and laughed.
And quite right. I.Seoul.U was and still is ridiculous, meaningless and completely grammatically incorrect. U, I do not Seoul. (See? I’ve…