AOA‘s Seolhyun recently went on an unfollowing spree on Instagram, dropping like 50 people. Given that she still follows over 400, god knows it’s understandable. Still, this somehow turned into …
Read More »Holland deserves to be distinguished from idols just doing fanservice
In January of this year, Holland came out with his self-financed, independently-released song, “Neverland“. It’s currently enjoying over 8.6 million views on YouTube, and a lot of the comments are …
Read More »Park Bom gives interview on drug controversy, basically explains ADHD & Adderall
Park Bom‘s drug controversy has become all the rage yet again after ‘PD Notebook‘ featured it in a recent episode. As such, she decided to give an exclusive interview to …
Read More »SM Entertainment seems intent on making it as hard as possible to love NCT
As a casual fan of NCT, I honestly almost have no idea what’s going on with the group anymore, and at this point I’m afraid to put the effort in …
Read More »Comments Of The Day: Oh won’t somebody think of EXP Edition?
So the other day I covered EXP Edition‘s latest venture, “Stress“, basically because I covered their start as a K-pop group borne out of a rather shitty thesis and how …
Read More »KCSC to investigate reporting practices of media outlets covering death of SHINee’s Jonghyun
KCSC (Korea Communications Standards Commission) announced recently that they would be investigating the reports made on the death of SHINee‘s Jonghyun for violations of accepted practices. On December 28, KCSC …
Read More »Journalist says K-pop company threatened lawsuit if coverage was negative, K-pop fans bizarrely defend company
A few days ago, journalist Jae-Ha Kim tweeted out something that happened to her that I felt was rather uncontroversial. When I was in Korea recently, I was set to …
Read More »EXO stan files ‘War & Peace’ of complaints, another plans protest, SME appears to cave
An EXO stan recently filed a gigantic-ass formal complaint over alleged defamatory comments that stemmed basically from K-pop fandom fighting bullshit, while another EXO stan got a permit to stage …
Read More »Artsy Fartsy: Red & green color theory through Ravi’s “Bomb” & Suzy’s “Yes No Maybe”
The colors red and green are opposite each other on the color wheel, so how do these opposites work within art? Red has so many meanings, and Johann Wolfgang Von …
Read More »FUSE’s ‘K-Stop’ podcast removes episode soon after backlash from BTS/G-Friend fans
‘K-Stop‘ is a podcast from FUSE hosted by Jeff Benjamin and Tina Xu, and the latest episode also included Brooke Bunce. Or at least it was the latest episode until …
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