Fashion and K-pop: Striking the Right Balance Image construction is one of the fundamentals of making it big in K-pop. Fashion constitutes a major chunk of this very process of the formation of the…
Roundtable: K-Pop in the Wild, Wild, West As K-pop further breaches the conciousness of Western media outlets, including many mainstream publications, the portrayal and coverage of the genre ma…
SB Mid-Year Review, 2017: A Wide Variety of Comebacks Welcome back to the?SB Midyear Review! 2017 has been a year loaded with quality comebacks. Many acts, both veterans and rookies, made returns-- some th…
G-Dragon’s USB Album: Digital or Physical? These days, we find ourselves reaching for CD players less and less; instead, we rely on digital means with our laptops or phones to play the newest re…
A Short History of Marijuana in South Korea Son Ga-in of Brown Eyed Girls?"shocked" the Korean public by revealing on Instagram that a friend of her boyfriend,?Joo Ji-hoon,?had suggested she use …
G-Dragon Defines Himself on “Kwon Ji Yong” Kobo Ab?’s novel ? later adapted into a movie ? The Face of Another explores the change a man goes through as he dons an extremely lifelike mask follow…
Why do K-pop World Tours Tend to Ignore Europe? Much excitement was raised when?G-Dragon?announced his upcoming solo concert Act III: M.O.T.T.E. (Moment?of Truth, The End)?ahead of his final comeback…
Jaden Smith Doing K-pop is a Lose-Lose Situation Jaden Smith recently tweeted that he is planning to release a K-pop single in the next four?months. This isn't the first time a Western artist is tryin…
IU Asserts Herself with “Palette” IU?has comeback with a gentle pop declaration of independence, "Palette", featuring G-Dragon?as support to her playful statement of personal growth. …
Rough Translation: Blackface Makes a Comeback with “Nick Fury” (Featuring Henry) Blackface is back! It’s only been a month since?Blackface's last?comeback but it recently dropped another bomb on us somewhat unexpectedly. Whether or …