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All posts tagged "K-pop"

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  [WaPo] The (almost) secret life of a K-pop star at Georgetown University

      On the day his worlds collided, Roy Kim was sprinting across campus. Georgetown was a blur as he bolted toward class, nearly late for his Chinese lecture again. Backpack over his shoulder, head down,...

  • Posted May 1, 2015
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  EXO manager fined by court for hitting fan at airport

  A manager of K-pop top boy band EXO was fined about $936 by Incheon District Court in South Korea Wednesday on charges of inflicting bodily harm onto a fan taking photos of the band at the airport...

  • Posted April 29, 2015
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  YG talks about Big Bang’s contracts ending next year

  YG Entertainment head Yang Hyun-suk expressed Sunday his wish for Big Bang, one of K-pop’s top dogs, to continue under his agency. The five-member band is finally slated to make their long-anticipated comeback beginning May 1. It...

  • Posted April 27, 2015
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  Big Bang to release monthly singles before full album in September

  Big Bang, one of K-pop’s top groups, is set to kick off their first comeback in three years by releasing a monthly single on the first of each month until September before dropping its full album in...

  • Posted April 24, 2015
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  KOCCA, musicians out to show the world K-pop is not just idols

  The Korea Creative Content Agency and 12 musical teams are out to redefine K-pop around the world. “Overseas, people ask if K-pop music is just idol music,” KOCCA President Song Sung-gak said Thursday, in a media conference...

  • Posted April 23, 2015
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  K-pop star Kahi named visiting professor of college taekwondo department

  Kahi, a former member of K-pop girl group After School, was named a visiting professor of the taekwondo department at Wooksuk University Thursday, Yonhap reported. According to the university, Kahi has given a series of lectures about...

  • Posted April 23, 2015
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  15,000 Japanese fans welcome K-pop convention

  About 15,000 Japanese fans welcomed a K-pop convention inside Saitama Super Arena Wednesday, Yonhap reported. KCON Japan, which opened for the first time this year, is an off-shoot of the annual Los Angeles event that began in 2012,...

  • Posted April 23, 2015
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