The impact of Korean pop music (most commonly shorthanded as K-pop) on global music trends over the past few years is undeniable. Take BTS, for example. Since their debut in 2013, the Korean septet ...
Is it a racial slur or is it simply another language? The question has popped up frequently in the context of several Asian languages over the years. And now that Korean pop music has been dominating ...
YouTube revealed the most popular music videos among Koreans this year! With 2020 coming to an end, YouTube shared a list of the 10 music videos released this year that garnered the most views within ...
On July 10, the final contestants on Mnet’s “The Voice of Korea 2020” performed for the last time to determine the show’s ultimate victor. The final episode of “The Voice of Korea 2020” featured both ...
K-pop fans got a bracing reminder this week that North and South Korea are still technically at war, 67 years after the armistice that ended fighting between the two territories. Why should this still ...
Back in 2009, eager to share my love of K-pop with pretty much anyone who would listen, I showed a grad school classmate the music video for “Lollipop” by BIGBANG and 2NE1. He laughed and told me the ...
K-pop idols such as V, TWICE, Jackson Wang, and aespa have released songs in English as well as Korean. Credit: Image credits: AFP / ImaZinS Editorial / Han Myung-Gu / NDZ/Star Max / GC Images / ...