Posts tagged ‘Big Bang’

Socio-Cultural
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Rolling Stone’s Top K-pop Picks For US Success

My co-writer Gil recently wrote about the problem of misleading and narrow journalism regarding K-pop in non-Korean/Western media outlets, and…Read More

Fashion/Style
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Big Bang Tell Us “Never Stop Dreaming”

Big Bang and The North Face was an unlikely yet intriguing partnership from the beginning. The North Face is an…Read More

Socio-Cultural
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Big Bang’s Toughest Critics: World Star Hip Hop

There’s not much on this earth that can embarrass me. Not a pie to the face, tripping over my shoes…Read More

Socio-Cultural
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The Sexualization of Caucasian Women in K-pop

Anyone who’s paid any degree of attention to recent K-pop videos or K-dramas/movies should have at least noticed the increasing…Read More

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How Scripting is Ruining Running Man

It took almost two years and a terrible Big Bang episode for me to officially come to the conclusion that…Read More

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Four Great CF Songs

In their many commerical endeavors, K-pop groups will sometimes record a song or two or five for a CF, or…Read More

Socio-Cultural
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K-pop’s Fan Artists: Reimaginging and Remixing K-pop

When recalling Andy Warhol’s screen-prints of Marilyn Monroe, it is evident that pop culture has influenced artists since before K-pop’s…Read More

Socio-Cultural
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How Beats by Dr. Dre Became Embedded Into K-pop Culture

There’s only one thing on this earth that K-pop has convinced me that I desperately need to have. One thing…Read More

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Where Does K-pop Fit In?

Every now and again our readers help us to see other aspects of Korean pop culture we never thought to…Read More

Socio-Cultural
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K-pop’s Faulty Perception of a Homogenous West

A few weeks ago some friends and I headed to downtown Los Angeles to catch the highly anticipated CN Blue…Read More