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What's the difference between the two K-pop songs "Gangnam Style" and "MIC Drop"? One provided audiences with an Asian caricature to jest at, while the latter is genuinely appreciated by fans from South Korea and abroad — the latter being BTS. Debuting in 2013, with seven total members, BTS is a South Korean boy band that's attained international success both at home, but also in China, Japan, and most recently, the United States. Maybe you'll remember them as the first K-Pop band to ever perform at the American Music Awards last year, and the first Korean group to ever win a Billboard Music Award. Yeah, that group . Steve Aoki, of course, we don't need to introduce; he's the founder of Dim Man records, mastermind behind the viral sensation "Selfie," and world-renowned DJ whose songs have climbed the Billboard charts countless times. Naturally when Aoki remixed BTS' hit song "MIC Drop" in November 2017, it quickly become ...

Tweet This SK Telecom Jung Wook, CEO of JYP Entertainment, Bang Si-hyuk, CEO of Big Hit Entertainment, Noh Jong-won, head of SK Telecom‘s Unicorn Labs and Kim Young-min, CEO of S.M. Entertainment, attend event at SK Telecom’s headquarters in Seoul on Jan. 31, 2018. Three of South Korea’s most prominent entertainment labels are teaming up for a new streaming venture with local telecommunication company SK Telecom , the latter announced on Wednesday. BigHit Entertainment, the home of BTS, JYP Entertainment, which houses the likes of TWICE and Got7, and SM Entertainment, one of the originators of the K-pop idol concept and the label behind top acts including EXO and Girls’ Generation, have teamed up with SK Telecom, also known as SKT, to create a new music streaming platform that thrives on new technologies. According to the Korea Herald , the three entertainment agencies make up about 15 percent of the entire Korean digital music market, and over half of the ...

Tweet This SK Telecom Jung Wook, CEO of JYP Entertainment, Bang Si-hyuk, CEO of Big Hit Entertainment, Noh Jong-won, head of SK Telecom‘s Unicorn Labs and Kim Young-min, CEO of S.M. Entertainment, attend event at SK Telecom’s headquarters in Seoul on Jan. 31, 2018. Three of South Korea’s most prominent entertainment labels are teaming up for a new streaming venture with local telecommunication company SK Telecom , the latter announced on Wednesday. BigHit Entertainment, the home of BTS, JYP Entertainment, which houses the likes of TWICE and Got7, and SM Entertainment, one of the originators of the K-pop idol concept and the label behind top acts including EXO and Girls’ Generation, have teamed up with SK Telecom, also known as SKT, to create a new music streaming platform that thrives on new technologies. According to the Korea Herald , the three entertainment agencies make up about 15 percent of the entire Korean digital music market, and over half of the ...

Tweet This Mike Selsky LA-based music production and songwriting team The Stereotypes The Grammys were filled with magic for The Stereotypes, “24K Magic” that is. The Los Angeles-based production and songwriting team behind the Song of the Year “That’s What I Like” and other hits from Bruno Mars’ acclaimed 24K Magic album walked away from the night with the biggest lift their career had ever seen, and it came hot on the heels of the momentum they had gained from the K-pop industry. South Korea’s pop scene is gradually making its way into America’s mainstream music consciousness, but international producers crafting music for K-pop is hardly anything new and The Stereotypes have been doing it for years now . This week’s “Bad Boy” by the popular girl group Red Velvet is just their latest release, as the quartet of producers have laid out tracks for many of K-pop’s biggest names, including EXO, BoA, Super Junior, and Taemin. “ We definitely pivoted to the K-pop market when thing...

BTW A popular Canadian radio station has canceled its plan to launch a Korean pop music show after fans of one K-pop band revolted on social media. Toronto’s Hits 93 posted a multi-tweet announcement on Monday announcing that the planned K-pop hour was canceled and apologizing for “offending” fans. “It wouldn’t be wise … considering the outpouring of opinions on this matter,” the station tweeted. I sincerely apologize for the turmoil my Tweet caused! – Viktor and the team at Hits 93 Toronto — Hits 93 Toronto (@Hits93Toronto) January 29, 2018 According to entertainment blog Asian Junkie , that outpouring of opinions was mostly coming from fans of one popular group, BTS. But why would K-pop fans want to  cancel a K-pop radio show? It’s … complicated. BTS is arguably the biggest boy band in K-pop, with a devoted social media following in both Korea and the West. The fans call themselves “BTS ARMY,” and they made BTS the “top social artist” of 2017, according to Billboard . BT...

After the latest broadcast of ' Sugarman ' with ASTRO and Red Velvet , some of my peers have asked me a question. On the January 28 episode, ASTRO covered the song "Shadow" by a group named 'K-pop.' Yes, you read it right, ' K-pop .' So after the show aired, my friends asked if those five men were really idols and whether their group name was actually 'K-pop.' Can you imagine a group being named 'Hip Hop' or 'Rock N' Roll'? Idols, indeed, they were, and K-pop really was their actual group name. Of course, their career all started before they knew that Korean pop would become a global sensation, way before the term K-Pop was even widely recognized as a collective genre.  Some even say that their group name (which was created over a decade ago) foresaw the future of K-Pop! But, who were they as an idol group? Unlike the different sort of weight that their name later brought, K-pop as a group was a pretty ordinary team that tr...

Radio station Hits 93 Toronto recently opened up a Twitter poll asking their followers if they should dedicate an hour each day to playing K-Pop songs. The next day, they took the tweet down and issued the following (long) apology: When I posted the Tweet, I did not intend to offend. In fact, I intended to help promote bigger acts and smaller acts from Korea and beyond, during that K-POP hour. 2/ — Hits 93 Toronto (@Hits93Toronto) January 29, 2018 I and the team at Hits 93 Toronto, understand (and appreciate), the comments sent to us. As such, we have decided to yield your warnings, and pull the plug on this week's 'Where Did It Chart' and the K-POP hour. 4/ — Hits 93 Toronto (@Hits93Toronto) January 29, 2018 I sincerely apologize for the turmoil my Tweet caused! - Viktor and the team at Hits 93 Toronto — Hits 93 Toronto (@Hits93Toronto) January 29, 2018 WTF happened? As it turns out, the BTS-EXO rivalry happened. Members of both fandoms stormed the replies to the polls, mo...

You need to know more about these bands (Picture: Getty) K-pop girl groups don’t always get the recognition they deserve, so we’re getting these five on your radar because if they’re not already, they definitely should be. Since BTS took America by storm in 2017, K-pop fandoms have been keen to get their favourite groups the same kind of international recognition. In particular, boy bands are getting a lot of attention, with fans campaigning on Twitter for groups like EXO, NCT and GOT7 to follow in BTS’s footsteps and perform on American television. But what about the girls? K-pop girl groups go through the same rigorous training as the boys, and the results are some incredibly talented bands. Yet they don’t always command as much attention. We’ve picked five girl groups, from industry veterans to newer idols, that you need to know. Girls Generation [embedded content] Any K-Pop fan worth their salt knows Girls Generation. Since debuting in 2007, they’ve become veterans of the South Kor...

When you think of Lucifer , K-pop is not the first thing comes to mind. The TV series is based on one of Vertigo’s most popular comic runs, but its gritty action and drama are more aligned with a K-drama than South Korea’s brand of pop goodness. That is, unless you know who SHINee is. If you do, then you know why Lucifer has a connection to the wide world of K-pop. Tonight, Lucifer aired its latest episode of season three, and it featured its share of K-pop nods. Part of the episode follows Pierce and Lucifer as the pair helped Chloe with her latest murder case. A chemistry teacher named June Lee was found dead, and her laptop happened to have the secret formula to K-pop on it. GUYS IN FUCKJGUJF SCREAMIG I WAS JUS SITTING HERE WATCHING LUCIFER AND MINDING MY BUSINESS ANd SHINEE STARTED PLAYING pic.twitter.com/Dn2bqWDolU — luce ⋆ (@offsyk) January 30, 2018 Not the music genre, that is. No, Lucifer is talking about K Pop, the latest and best brand of ecstasy to hit Los Angeles. The t...

Since debuting in 2015, fans have been begging members of K-pop girl group Twice on Twitter to drop their skin-care routines. All nine members are what "glass skin" dreams are made of, so I don't blame their fans for wanting to know the group's exact regimens. Luckily, Twice's Chaeyoung and Nayeon answered fans' prayers during a V Live session. (For those that are unaware, V Live is a live-streaming app for K-pop idols to communicate with their fans.) After finishing up some ramen in their hotel room after a show in Japan, Chaeyoung and Nayeon gave viewers a close-up view of their glittery gold eye makeup before washing it all off. Nayeon later walked viewers (and Chaeyoung) through every single step of her skin-care routine. Because the live stream went on for almost an hour and a half, I took notes for you. Consider this the Cliff Notes version of the V Live broadcast. Spoiler alert: Nayeon uses four to five different cleansers to completely remove her mak...

K-Pop stars are in talks of performing at a North-South Korea collaborative concert.  On January 29, MBC 's ' News Desk ' exclusively reported that singer  BoA , Lee Juk , Jung In , pianist Son Yeol Eum , indie band Red Chair , traditional Korean music artist Yoo Tae Pyeongyang , and an unnamed popular idol group have been requested to perform at North Korea and South Korea's collaboration concert taking place at Mount Kumgang on February 4.  SEE ALSO: BoA spins around in MV teaser for 'NEGADOLA' In response to the report, Lee Juk and BoA's agencies stated that it's true they've received performance requests from the government, however, nothing is yet confirmed. The upcoming event will be the first North and South collaboration concert since visits to Mount Kumgang was prohibited in 2008. Stay tuned for updates.  Let's block ads! (Why?) https://www.allkpop.com/article/2018/01/k-pop-stars-including-boa-lee-juk-and-more-to-perform-in-north-korea...

WHILE K-Pop is popular among Malay-sian youths, the South Korean music genre got a bashing during the Rise of the Ummah convention in Kuala Lumpur recently. According to news reports, Faizuddin Mohd Zai, an activist from conservative youth group Gamis, blamed K-Pop for what he claimed was rampant hedonism among young Muslims, making them unable to secure high-paying jobs. However, not everyone agrees with him, including singer-songwriter Akim Ahmad, 27, who sports a bright blonde do similar to many K-Pop idols. The frontman of award-winning pop rock group Akim & The Majistret (ATM), who was in South Korea recently to record music videos with the band, said: “Music is universal. K-Pop is not necessarily a bad thing. “Even before K-Pop got big in Malaysia, we had other music genres, like rock, which, back then, were considered a negative influence on young people. “I think it is up to individuals to make their own judgment. “Of course, there must be limits. We can enjoy any kind of ...