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Should kpop companies continue to try breaking into the Japanese market?
This goes for other music markets like China. In my 20 years of being a kpop fan I’ve witnessed countless…
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I think we need to realize internet fandom spaces are echo chambers
And it’s fine to be in an echo chamber as long as you realize you are in one. By participating…
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Homeplus clears liquidation hurdle, but what challenges remain?
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Embattled retailer Homeplus staved off immediate liquidation after winning court approval for its restructuring plan, but it still faces steep…
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Supreme Court backs subtitles, audio descriptions for disabled audiences
in NewsThe Supreme Court ruled Thursday that movie theaters’ failure to provide audio descriptions and subtitles for people with visual and…
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Can humans really fall in love with AI? Korean dating show looks for answers
in NewsArtificial intelligence (AI) has become deeply embedded in everyday life, quickly organizing information and taking care of tedious tasks. An…
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at the malbok party somebody said his son “drank seaweed soup” and the whole room groaned. it means he failed his exam
still working through what i learned at jay’s place last week. somebody at the table — jay’s uncle, i think…
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70,000 adults go missing every year in Korea — 99% of cases are closed without proper investigation
Excerpts: “Adult disappearances totaled 70,814 last year. Yet 99.7 % of cases in 2025 were closed without investigation or search.…
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What do you think is behind KIOF’s recent decline? (Leaving aside the recent controversy and livestream issue last year)
I want to leave out the recent “copying” controversy and the livestream issue because I don’t think either had much…
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Deposit insurance fee hikes face pushback from financial firms
in NewsFinancial companies are pushing back against plans to raise deposit insurance fees, warning that a steep increase could put an…
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B.A.P: The Forgotten Blueprint — Does a Group’s Eventual Commercial Failure Erase Its Influence?
Before B.A.P’s upcoming 15th anniversary, it is time to ask what they actually left behind Some groups define an…
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Santos Bravos has exposed the farce that is the K-pop training system
Santos Bravos were one of the most talked-about acts at KCON LA this weekend, mainly due to their stellar live…
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Why South Korea Won’t Send Weapons To Ukraine
Note: This is a long response, but it explains everything about why South Korea won’t send weapons or troops to…
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JYPE tried to solve TWICE’s western weakness with ITZY but it wasn’t needed
I saw this post about how TWICE’s western success was unexpected and it listed 3 main points: TWICE have a…
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Korea’s housing loan rules become patchwork of regulations, side effects, exceptions
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The government’s drive to curb home prices and household debt through a series of tighter lending rules is creating growing…
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WakeOne Has Amazing Groups(ZB1, ALD1 and Izna) but Keeps Wasting Their Potential
I honestly don’t understand what WakeOne is doing. They have such good groups like ZB1, ALD1, and IZNA. These groups…
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Gyeonggi Province calls for ‘jeonse’ fraud aid to cover foreign victims
in NewsAs a wave of scams exploiting Korea’s unique “jeonse” rental system has left tens of thousands of tenants at risk,…
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In just three hours, Japanese colonial authorities rounded up 466 Seoul residents for black-market trading, sentenced them on the spot, and sent them by streetcar to Seodaemun Prison (July 1945)
This article illustrates an example of the brutal “summary trials” carried out in connection with mass police sweeps against black-market…
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State audit agency apologizes for sitting commissioner’s indictment
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The Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) apologized Friday after one of its commissioners was indicted on charges connected to…
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US drone mix-up caused by communication error at working level: official
in NewsLast week’s mix-up between South Korean and U.S. militaries over a U.S. drone flight occurred due to a communication error…
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PPP calls on defense minister to step down over mix-up of US military drone as enemy threat
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The main opposition People Power Party (PPP) called on the defense minister to step down Friday, urging him to take…
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dkz were failed as a group by their company
not sure how familiar everyone is with dkz i became a fan towards their disbandment and didnt hear anything beforehand…
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Hyundai Motor workers to extend strikes for higher wages
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Hyundai Motor’s union said Friday its workers will extend partial strikes next week in a bid to secure higher wages,…
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Seoul says cooperation with NATO aimed at global peace, seeks stable relations with Russia (Yonhap)
Seoul says cooperation with NATO aimed at global peace, seeks stable relations with Russia (Yonhap) July 21, 2026 https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20260721007351315 ROK’s…
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Alice Syndrome: The Deep End of Debut
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Every debut era arrives with a promise. Most groups spend their first weeks chasing brightness — the widest smile, the…
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“Even prison will not save you”: unmarried young Korean women feared sexual enslavement in Imperial Japan’s wartime labor conscription, but officials said evaders would be imprisoned and then conscripted anyway (September 1944)
By early 1944, months before Japan formally promulgated the Women’s Labor Volunteer Corps Ordinance in August 1944, reports from colonial…
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Why K-pop Companies Are More Controlling Than Traditional Record Labels
Many people misunderstand this issue because they judge K-pop based on the traditional relationship between record labels and artists. However,…
