All posts tagged "K-pop"

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    Taylor Swift’s ‘Bad Blood’ director responds to accusations of copying K-pop MV

    It’s a T-Swift-versus-K-pop controversy — a Jezebel post accusing Swift’s “Bad Blood” music video, directed by Joseph Kahn, of copying 2ne1′s “Come Back Home” surfaced Wednesday. “It seems highly unlikely that any storied, thorough music video director would have...

    • Posted July 23, 2015
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  • YG Family concert featured its artists Psy, Big Bang and 2NE1 in Taiwan last month. The top Korean entertainment company has been actively advancing into the China market.
    S. Korea to hold K-pop concert to reinvigorate post-MERS tourism

    SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) — A K-pop concert will be held next month to reassure foreigners of their safety from MERS, an infectious disease that has claimed dozens of lives here but is nearing its eradication, the...

    • Posted July 23, 2015
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  • A crowd of fans saw off TVXQ's Jung Yunho as he entered his mandatory 21-month military service in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province, Tuesday in South Korea. (Yonhap)
    TVXQ Yunho enters military service

    Say goodbye to TVXQ leader Jung Yunho for 21 months — the 29-year-old entered his mandatory military service Tuesday in Korea. According to Yonhap, Jung arrived in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province, around 2 p.m. with friends, family and...

    • Posted July 21, 2015
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  • Members of K-pop group Girls' Generation pose to demonstrate the theme of their segments in "Channel Girls' Generation," a new reality show launching on July 21, 2015, in Seoul. (Yonhap)
    Girls’ Generation launches reality show

    SEOUL, July 21 (Yonhap) — K-pop group Girls’ Generation is set to show “a side of them never before shown on TV” in the pilot episode of their new reality program later Tuesday. “Channel Girls’ Generation” —...

    • Posted July 21, 2015
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  • Hyukoh (Yonhap)
    Hot indie band Hyukoh joins hands with YG

    South Korea’s hottest new band, indie dazzler Hyukoh, has found a new label with High Ground, headed by hip-hop giant Epik High’s Tablo under YG Entertainment. According to YG Tuesday, the four-member band — which shot to...

    • Posted July 21, 2015
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  • Sunye, left, and Sohee. (Yonhap)
    Sunye, Sohee make official exit from Wonder Girls

    Ahead of the Wonder Girls’ comeback as a four-member unit, Sunye and Sohee officially announced their exit from the group Monday, Yonhap reported. According to JYP Entertainment, Sunye — who got married in 2013 — wishes to...

    • Posted July 20, 2015
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  • So Ji-sub (Yonhap)
    Top actor So Ji-sub back with new rap track

    Top South Korean actor So Ji-sub, 38, is back with yet another rap record, according to Yonhap. 3HW said Monday So would drop his new song, “SO GANZI,” Wednesday in Korea, his first since “18 Years” in...

    • Posted July 20, 2015
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