All posts tagged "K-pop"

  • Jazz songstress Nah Youn-sun
    Hallyu is more than K-pop

    Korean jazz artists gaining global attention By Chung Ah-young Jazz is not a style of music for everyone’s taste and seldom sees commercial success — at least in Korea where K-pop is dominating the music industry. Under...

    • Posted November 18, 2013
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  • Visitors to “with DRAMA” at Lotte FITIN in Dongdaemun hold up hallyu products. / Courtesy of Lotte FITIN
    Stores selling hallyu paraphernalia are flourishing

    By Kim Ji-soo The demand for Korean pop cultural content has been consistently strong this year. What has been relatively weak on the other hand however is the diverse range of paraphernalia. The Lotte FITIN in Dongdaemun,...

    • Posted November 6, 2013
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  • Lee Ho-yang plays a keyboard in this photo provided by him. Having made his debut in 2005, the 31-year-old earned massive fame with a string of hit songs, including T-ara’s “Roly-Poly,” “Bo Peep Bo Peep” and Jewelry’s “One More Time” among many others.
    Songwriter weaves thread of K-pop hits

    K-pop songwriter ‘Sinsadong Tiger’ finds breakthrough with collected ideas By Park Si-soo Two hands are not enough to count the K-pop stars he has worked with; T-ara, 4minute, Beast and counting. Same goes for the smash hits...

    • Posted November 4, 2013
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  • Psy
    Roots of K-pop

    From ‘Hymn of Death’ to ‘Gangnam Style,’ Korean music galloping forward By Park Si-soo Everything has its roots and humble beginnings of its own. K-pop is no exception. While today’s genre is characterized by pretty young boy...

    • Posted October 31, 2013
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  • From left, Hyomin, Qri, Boram, Soyeon, Jiyeon and Eunjung pose in front of a banner with the cover image of their latest album “Again, T-ara” in a café in Nonhyeon-dong, southern Seoul, Monday. / Courtesy of Core Contents Media
    T-ara recharges with new attitude

    Popular girl group plans to hold showcase and concert in China By Kim Ji-soo In the tough apprentice-system of K-pop, girl group T-ara hit the ground running. The song “Bo Beep Bo Beep” from the 2009 debut...

    • Posted October 24, 2013
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  • K-pop fans from Spain and Poland / Korea Times file
    ‘Konglish’ Is Pervasive in K-pop Songs

    “English lyrics are awkward and hardly fit in the context. They are just fillers.” Finding a K-pop song with lyrics entirely in Korean is getting increasingly difficult. Behind the changes are musicians and producers who seem to...

    • Posted October 21, 2013
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  • Seymour Stein, right, vice-president of Warner Bros and Sire Records president, shakes hands with the leader of Korean rock band No Brain, after announcing his company will sign the band, at a press meeting held in GS XI-Gallery, near Hongik University in Seoul, Friday. / Yonhap
    No Brain Signs with Sire Records

    Music biggies talk music, K-pop as MU:CON Seoul 2013 wraps up By Park Jin-hai Seymour Stein, better known as the man who made Madonna into a global pop-icon, opened the last day of the world music market...

    • Posted October 11, 2013
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