88Rising‘s Asia Rising Forever online concert was held yesterday, and as promised Kang Daniel and Rich Brian managed to pull off a remote dance battle. Kang Daniel kinda savage. He …
Read More »Ballad Roundup: LOONA, Solar & Kassy, Baek Yerin, 8eight, CRACKER
Ballad Weirdo checking in Hello Asian Junkie readers! My friends call me Hojo and I am a weirdo who loves big ol’ sappy ballads. One of my top K-pop songs …
Read More »Ryu Sera reacts to Nine Muses music videos & spills a bit on them, investigates Dreamcatcher & LOONA
Former Nine Muses member Ryu Sera has been on YouTube for a while now, as I remember when she first left the group and was working on solo stuff I …
Read More »LOONA’s Chuu gets hair pulled by staff member, ISAC issues apology
A video of LOONA‘s Chuu getting her hair pulled by a staff member at ‘Idol Star Athletic Championship‘ went viral recently. https://twitter.com/caskerbox/status/1206580013878919169 In fairness, it did seem to be lighter …
Read More »[Event] KCON LA expo recap includes more hits than misses with beauty, food, and music
Throughout the years KCON LA has featured various aspects of Korean culture, but perhaps none so cut and dry as it did this year. The KCON LA 2019 expo set-up …
Read More »Donald Trump mistakenly tags Red Velvet stan as he whines about USWNT captain Megan Rapinoe, stan responds with fancams
Yesterday, a clip of USA women’s captain Megan Rapinoe went viral after she talked about not visiting the White House should they win the World Cup. “I’m not going to …
Read More »[Update] (G)I-DLE/MAMAMOO/CLC video titles edited through abuse of YouTube community feature by trolls
In what thankfully turned out to be an amusing bit of mess more than anything, CUBE Entertainment‘s official YouTube channel was hacked or something recently, and the title and description …
Read More »LOONA impress with dance cover NCT 127’s “Cherry Bomb”
Following their at-the-time-confusing-but-fans-explained-it-to-me cover of BTS’s “Fire”, LOONA have now released a cover of NCT 127‘s “Cherry Bomb“, and this continues to rule and they should do this all the …
Read More »LOONA’s album distributor Kakao M shit the bed in impressive fashion
This week in ‘massive fuck-ups of basic shit’, LOONA’s distributor Kakao M has managed to mess up essentially every aspect of getting LOONA’s album ‘[X X]‘ to the people who …
Read More »This Is So Stupid: LOONA’s Yves & Chuu are now the Korean answer to WJSN’s Chinese lesbian billionaire couple
Following the emergence of Mei Qi and Xuan Yi of WJSN as married Chinese lesbian billionaires, we now have the Korean equivalent in Yves and Chuu of LOONA, who of …
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