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Hyosung in Hot Water Over Slip of the Tongue

Looks like T-ara N4 can breathe a sigh of relief and rest easy for a New York minute — for once, a fresh girl group scandal has managed ...

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Just Listen to Younha’s “Just Listen”

Ah, springtime (or fall, if you’re from the land down under) — ’tis the season for female comebacks, it would seem. The ladies of K-pop ...

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Silicone and the City: Is Life In Plastic Fantastic?

It seems that one can’t throw a rock into the dense proverbial forest that is K-entertainment without hitting something — or more accurately, someone — ...

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Korean Language Through K-pop 101: Assa!

By now, most of our readers will have heard PSY‘s follow-up effort to the smash hit that was “Gangnam Style,” the slightly less awesome and ...

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Counterpoint: So Listen, About This North Korea Business…

A happy consequence (one would hope) of being an international fan of K-pop, K-dramas, or really, any form of K-entertainment is that one becomes more ...

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Calm Down, Hyori — South Korea Isn’t Banning Miniskirts

As North Korea steadily ratchets up its bombastic rhetoric and slowly pushes the Korean peninsula towards the brink of what could rapidly turn into a ...

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Park Si-hoo and Sexual Assault in K-entertainment

It is remarkably easy to ignore, overlook, or write off the gritty underbelly of K-entertainment. Millions of dollars, hundreds of hours, and liters of sweat, ...

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B.A.P. Gets “One Shot”

As my colleague Ambika said in her review of their latest album, it seems mildly ridiculous to talk about a B.A.P. comeback — the group ...

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SISTAR’s So-yu and the Iljin Question

Girl group SISTAR (on whom I’ve drastically changed my ‘tude since their “I’m Alone” promotions) recently guested on Shinhwa Broadcast, where member So-yu revealed that she ...

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Why Are We Still Talking About Sunye’s Non-pregnancy?

On January 26, Wonder Girls’ leader Sunye became the first member of an active K-pop idol group to walk down the aisle. Resplendent in a ...

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