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Cooking Her Way Into Your Heart

If a girl is pretty you can be with her for three days, but if she is nice you can be with her for thirty ...

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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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Confusions of a Man Fan: Girl Crushes Versus Man Crushes

Before you think it, before you even go there, here’s a disclaimer. Though I’ll be speaking in very broad terms, I don’t speak for all ...

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Exposing Celebrities: The Rise of the Korean Media Machine

This year has arguably been one of the most revealing in the Korean entertainment industry. 2013 has shocked us with some of the most titillating ...

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Hip Hop Labels, Traffic Violations, and M.I.B’s “Nod Along”

Unbeknownst to some, there are several labels in K-pop which either specialize or focus specifically on marketing “hip hop” artists. Upon examining the type of ...

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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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The Sunday Social: 4/7

Happy Sunday! Saw this floating around Facebook today: Hilarious, right? Not. ...

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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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Roundtable: The Good Reads Edition

Welcome to this week’s Roundtable, aka the vanity edition! Reader itsmysunshine asked the editors this in the “Ask Seoulbeats” post, and we’ve decided to get ...

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Confessions of a Fangirl: Girl Crushes? Oh, I Definitely Got Those

Dear Seoulmates, As a fangirl, it seems like I’m always talking, living, breathing, eating, sleeping, and crying boy groups. It can be easy to forget ...

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