For Your Viewing Pleasure: Let’s Go Sporty

Welcome back to For Your Viewing Pleasure, where we take the time out of the week to share some of the most recent fashion-forward photos tied to the K…

Aftermath Update: What’s Next for T-ara, CCM, and Hwayoung?

During roughly a one week period at the end of July and towards the beginning of August, the K-pop world was subjected to an onslaught of coverage on t…

Variety As a Source of Controversy: What Gives?

In the K-pop world, variety is used to portray idols in a more relatable and likable light beyond their idealistic and perfect, albeit distant idol fac…

Tough Ladies Report to the Dance Floor

The summer is now over and as the beginning of the academic year approaches, there’s an increasing need for a shout out to all the late party-goers. As…

Why It Makes Me Sorry That Hwayoung Is Sorry

These past couple of months have been one hell of a ride for girl group T-ara. It's seems like since the first sign of the blazing summer sun, the heat…

The T-ara Bubble Bursts Yet Again

And this time, it's pretty much an implosion. It seems like not much time has passed since I wrote regarding the now 8-(9?) member T-ara's impending…

The Group “Dead Weights”: Are They Really So?

Charisma-free, not pulling their weight in the group, struggling to impress and whose purpose in the group is at best, questionable. These are some of …

Brothers and Sisters: Family Ties in K-pop

There are more than just a few famous pairs of good-looking, talented, and charismatic siblings who have taken the K-pop scene by storm. Sometimes they…

How to Fight Irrelevancy, T-ara Style

In K-pop, it is extremely easy to be left in the dust of new groups constantly debuting left and right. In times like these, singing and dancing will n…

SB Exchange #7: T-ara

Our featured artist for this week's SB Exchange is Core Contents Media's flagship group, T-ara. I'd entered the fandom just as "John Travolta Wannab…