The energy at SuperM’s We Are the Future tour stop in New York City was palpable from the second you entered Madison Square Garden. From the many electronic marquee signs displaying the sold-out event to the fans singing “Jopping” and other songs from the EP while they waited, the group’s popularity was glaringly obvious. Looking
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Most of us are not foreign to the K-pop concert atmosphere; it is deafening cheers, hot temperatures, and heightened excitement zapping through the air. It is packed venues with bright, flashing lightsticks in almost every fan’s hands. It is having adrenaline pump through your body, an uncontrollable smile take over your face, and the irresistible
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On Saturday 19, Pentagon performed the second show off the European leg of their first tour “Prism” in Lisbon, Portugal. Ongoing since April, the tour will span a total of twenty-three cities in four continents. Lisbon was a surprising choice for a band of their caliber, especially when names like London and Madrid were cut
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It has been a long time since Day6 was in Singapore, with their last fan meeting in 2016. Singapore MyDays waited in anticipation on Saturday to meet the band and I am elated to say Day6 delivered a solid 2.5 hours of stunning performances, entertaining banter, and heartwarming interaction with fans. Covering close to 30
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Readers may be familiar with rookie boy group Mont (Members Of the National Team) from the disastrous YG survival show, Mix Nine. In the show, Yang Hyun-suk visited an agency located in the far mountains, away from the busy, chic and trendy city of Seoul. He expected to find country hicks, not trainees. Instead, he
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KNK is yet another group in K-pop with a tough journey behind their backs. Since debuting in 2016, they have faced the mishaps of YG’s messy survival show MIXNINE, lost a member, gained a member, and changed companies. All this resulted in a nearly 18-month hiatus, broken only in January of this year when they
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Although I had known about Black Pink’s In Your Area concert in Atlanta for months prior to the event, I only decided to attend on a whim about a week before the concert. The concert took place on a weekend that was the calm before another storm of final exams and projects. Perhaps owing to
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SF9 remains one of K-pop’s best kept secrets: an underrated group with a mindblowing discography and well-rounded, captivating members. Once you get to know them, it is impossible not to wonder how they are not a world phenomenon yet. However, FNC Entertainment seems determined to turn the tables for their first dance-focused boy group, and
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Although the K-pop invasion in the United States may seem fairly new, K-pop has been infiltrating the state’s music world since years before due to Korean-American communities. The Korean Times has been sponsoring a Korean-themed music festival in Hollywood, California since 2003. In the beginning, they featured now veteran K-pop acts like Gummy, BoA, and
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Four years after BTS brought Live Trilogy Episode II: The Red Bullet to Singapore, fans finally got the chance to see the group live again on January 19. Karen and Qing share their experience at BTS’ Singapore stop for the Love Yourself world tour. Qing: You know what’s more amazing than the show itself? The
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