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Roundtable: Loving Concepts

Welcome, everyone, to another Seoulbeats Roundtable! K-pop groups and their companies, in their never-ending endeavour to attract and keep people’s attention, have honed the concept to become ...

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Join the Seoulbeats Writing Team!

Interested in writing and analyzing K-pop? In the name of the new year, we want some fresh blood for the team and this could be ...

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The Sunday Social: 1/13

Happy Sunday!  Hope you had a good week and back to your regular routine after the festivities. This week was filled with a lot of ...

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“I am a Failed ABC”: Finding Identity as a Chinese-American K-pop Star

Back in September, Super Junior-M‘s Henry and f(x)‘s Amber created accounts on Weibo and became the newest addition to the handful of K-pop stars currently ...

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SB Spotlight: Moon Geun-young the Master Chameleon

My favorite thing about Moon Geun-young is that she’s a beast at games. When I watched her on Running Man, it was like I was ...

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Roundtable: Block Bust?

Block B are no strangers to controversy, but their recent debacle may be their biggest yet, with news coming out on the 4th that the ...

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Looking at SNSD’s “I Got a Boy” Through its Makers

Of the popular composers and producers in K-pop, SM’s producers don’t often appear on Korean television, or the media, for that matter. Brave Brothers, Shinsadong ...

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The Old (Girls’) Generation and the Next

Following a year of promotions in Japan, SNSD in December announced their long-awaited Korean comeback; SM Entertainment introduced their flagship girl group’s concept of past, ...

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Raining on Rain’s Parade: Celebrity Soldiers and Special Treatment

As most K-pop fans are aware (thanks in no small part to Leeteuk‘s months-long whinefest of a grand farewell), male celebrities in South Korea face ...

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Roundtable: Catchphrase!

Welcome to the first Roundtable for 2013, everyone! One of the mainstays of pop music is its repetition of words and phrases to use as ...

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