Asian Junkie Asian pop. Without discretion.
Damn, there really wasn’t a whole lot going on for a couple weeks or so again, and really I think it was among the worst starts to a year as …
Read More »Rundown: IVE, ATEEZ, ZEROBASEONE, Hinatazaka46, NAVILLERA, FANTASTICS, UNEDUCATED KID
ZEROBASEONE confirmed to continue as 5, YH Entertainment quartet will move on
In all the mess yesterday, I almost missed ZEROBASEONE news entirely, as it felt weirdly unceremoniously released. Anyway, the short of it is the group will continue on under WAKEONE …
Read More »Kim Junsu performs again on M Countdown after 17 years away due to blacklisting
Former TVXQ member Kim Junsu returned recently to major music shows for the first time since 2009 on M Countdown. Perhaps appropriately — as musical theater provided him a stage …
Read More »Min Hee Jin wins ~$18 million stock option lawsuit against HYBE, court mostly accepts her arguments
Back to the legal mess mines with a major update in the NewJeans/Min Hee Jin/ADOR/HYBE case, as courts ruled in favor of Min Hee Jin regarding her put option to …
Read More »Conspiracy nut claims Utada Hikaru planned Charlie Kirk getting murked, which might outdo the IU theories
In crazy-ass-shit news, remember those people who are convinced IU is some kind of secret operative? Well, apparently there’s a Japanese version now and it involves Utada Hikaru. Yes, a …
Read More »SEVENTEEN’s Seungkwan & TXT’s Soobin arguing over KARA’s “Jumping” is the most I’ve related to idols
Both Seungkwan of SEVENTEEN and Soobin of TXT are known for being girl group stans (and K-pop stans, generally), so it was a special treat to see them debating the …
Read More »Covered: UAU (EXO), Lily & Camila (‘Wicked’), CREZL (Gen Hoshino), Andamiro (Lee Hi), Na Go Eun (f(x)), JiU (Han Ye Seul)
Covered, because I enjoy covers. Part of it is because I get to revisit songs from the past that I enjoy (and that’s a lot of K-pop’s appeal to me …
Read More »South Korea revises standard contracts to provide increased protection for K-pop trainees … at least in theory
With idol contract disputes taking up a lot of space in 2025’s biggest K-pop stories — and really, they’ve always been in dispute since I’ve been into K-pop — South …
Read More »[Review] Dreamcatcher’s Handong makes solo debut with ‘AtsnstA’ EP that provides pleasant surprises from start to finish
2025 gave us our first glimpse of the Dreamcatcher members debuting projects separate from the group, first with the sub-unit UAU and then with DAMI releasing her solo single “Chequered …
Read More »IVE’s Gaeul is a ‘Professional Thirst Trapper’
Getting right back to documenting idols wearing amusing shirts in English, we have IVE member Gaeul declaring her status as a “Professional Thirst Trapper” (here) in their ‘CHALLENGERS’ concept film …
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