Canadian dance duo Taylor Hatala, 11, and Larsen Thompson, 14, have made a big name for themselves over the past few months with their slickly produced and choreographed videos and precise moves. Their most recent video to Beyonce’s Run The World was an equally impressive affair, that was until…
SHINee’s Jonghyun sparked some controversy and debate with a remark he made about women on his MBC radio show Blue Night while talking to Nine, the lead singer of indie band Dear Cloud a couple of weeks ago.
The outrage which only really emerged yesterday surrounded Jonghyun’s assertion…
Will Simms is definitely one of the most interesting composers working in K-pop. He’s written some of SM Entertainment’s most distinctive singles in the past few years. Girls’ Generation’s I Got A Boy, EXO’s Wolf, Red Velvet’s Happiness – his back catalogue represents some of…
As you probably know by now, 5-member boy band Boys Republic are doing a European tour in July.
They’ll be visiting various countries including France, Germany and the UK.
We’ve got two pairs of tickets to give away to their London date.
All you have to do…
“Why does the consumption of K-pop music often trigger a passion for the South Korean language and for traditional Korean culture?”
It’s an interesting question that we here at Beyond Hallyu like many others often ponder.
Unfortunately there is a lack of data in this area and so…
A couple of years ago I wrote an article about aegyo as a cultural phenomenon and the role it plays in giving young women (and sometimes young men) a very limited form of power in a society in which they have very little. Most of the ideas came from a…
With Boys’ Republic’s European tour fast approaching (the first date is in Paris on the 3rd of July before coming to the UK the next day), we recently got the chance to ask the band a few questions. They told us about the best and worst things about being…
