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In a tragic story that understandably came as a shock to many, it made the rounds yesterday that actress Barbie Hsu had died in Japan at age 48 due to …
Read More »Actress Barbie Hsu dies at age 48 after contracting pneumonia caused by the flu
Actress Zhao Lusi opens up about hospitalization, confirms physical & mental abuse by her company
While I don’t normally cover Chinese entertainment news, mostly due to my unfamiliarity with the scene, one story has unfortunately recently made waves on social media. Actress Zhao Lusi‘s management …
Read More »Cao Lu wants to reunite FIESTAR to record Chinese version of “You’re Pitiful”, has bought the copyright
With all the mess in K-pop nowadays, sometimes we overlook the important things. You know, such as FIESTAR member Cao Lu wanting to reunite the group to record a Chinese …
Read More »FANTASY BOYS’ K-Soul claims fans who support idols dating may also accept being cheated on and abused
FANTASY BOYS member K-Soul made a couple controversial comments during a livestream earlier today, mentioning a boy group member who brought his girlfriend to a club and also saying fans …
Read More »Bullet Points: Jin & Meisa divorce, plus just so much fandom fuckery, company news, and awards stuff
Hello and welcome to 2024! Been a rough start to things so far, at least in Korea and Japan, with the year beginning with political stabbings and earthquakes. Yeesh. Anyway, …
Read More »Kris Wu’s appeal denied, will serve 13-year sentence for multiple rapes
Almost a year ago to the day, Kris Wu was sentenced to 13 years in prison for the rape of multiple women (as well as group licentiousness). He, of course, …
Read More »Young TF Entertainment trainee and classmates get yelled at by a grown-ass stalker ‘fan’
A rare update from the C-pop world on this site, but a recent tweet went viral recently, seemingly showing a grown woman stalking a child that’s a TF Entertainment trainee, …
Read More »[Event] 2023 Head In The Clouds Festival with Rina Sawayama, DPR, Jackson Wang, XG, YOASOBI, Tiger JK & Yoon Mirae, more
After a far-too-long time away, event coverage is back at Asian Junkie, starting from 2023 Head in the Clouds Festival in Los Angeles, which went off with a bang with …
Read More »Jessica Jung turns in impressive collabs with Curley Gao, Yao Chen, Fiona Sit on ‘The Treasured Voice 4’
Since the K-pop world has largely blacklisted/ignored/lost touch with Jessica Jung, here’s my belated semi-regular update on her comings and goings, this time on the past three episodes of The …
Read More »SM Entertainment confirms Lucas being booted from NCT and WayV, will pursue solo career
Well, talk about a belated update, as SM Entertainment recently announced the decision to remove Lucas from both NCT and WayV. That said, he’ll seemingly stick with the company and …
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