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Read More »[Update] Details of Min Hee Jin’s legal victory over HYBE revealed, includes convo with BTS’s V as supporting evidence
Back to the Min Hee Jin and HYBE (and everybody else involved) legal mines, where details from the court’s ruling have been revealed, including evidence that caused a mess involving …
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 »K-Pop Diplomacy: Leaders Lee Jae Myung & Sanae Takaichi hit the drums to “GOLDEN” & “Dynamite” at summit
In what feels like some kind of example of the relevance and/or utility of soft power, K-pop played diplomat recently as Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korea’s President …
Read More »Rundown: THE BOYZ, NMIXX, SEULGI, J-Hope, FANTASY BOYS, SF9, Ailee, and hip-hop duos galore
Is it a good sign that it’s not even three months and baseball has barely started yet I’m already in a two-week hole that I spent the weekend making up? …
Read More »Rundown: ZB1, LISA, G-DRAGON, J-Hope, INFINITE, BTOB, TREASURE, more
Lot of big names in this one, and a lot coming in the next week as well, but not a lot of remarkable stuff, unfortunately. ====== ZEROBASEONE – “BLUE” I’m …
Read More »Bullet Points: Hyeri tanks a pole, Park Bom hiatus, KeyEast gets sold, Lizzy returns, sajaegi sentences, more
It’s been over a month since the last one of these, but I didn’t forget this time! Honestly, there just wasn’t a ton going on for a while there. Also, …
Read More »The Tzuyu baby has arrived, is a love triangle with Namjoon & Daragon baby incoming?
It’s been six years now since I shipped a pair of babies (#Problematic) here on Asian Junkie, praying for the (un)holy matrimony of the baby named after RM and the …
Read More »[Event] PURPLE KISS takes crowd to a ‘Sweet Nightmare’ at the LA Palace Theatre
RBW‘s six-member girl group, PURPLE KISS, kicked off their 2025 HEADWAY Tour in Los Angeles at the Palace Theatre. The group previously performed in the same venue last year as …
Read More »Bullet Points: Yulhee responds, Starship deepfake apology, THEBLACKLABEL stalker, Xiaoting returns to Kep1er, a slew of donations & a silly controversy over one, more
Yulhee sorta responds to her ex-husband, more stalking news somehow, Kep1er is now one step closer to being whole again, and thankfully a ton of donations. ====== Woman in her …
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