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SM Entertainment is in the endgame now
New management, new goals. What does this mean for the first K-pop company?
Tamar Herman
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Conversations about swastikas and K-pop give me migraines
A few weeks ago, in a very widely-covered story, TWICE’s Chaeyoung wore two very controversial shirts, one featuring a QAnon slogan, and one with Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols wearing a Nazi Swastika. I didn’t write about it at the time for a variety of reasons, partially
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Notes on K-pop Interview: Fifty Fifty on dreams, reality, and hitting it big with Cupid
Last year, new girl group Fifty Fifty’s song Lovin’ Me was a fan favorite among many diehard music loving K-pop fans. It ended up becoming one of my favorite songs of 2022. But it wasn’t the only great musical moment on the new act’s first EP, and
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Are we living in a Kpopcore world?
Like obscenity, K-pop isn’t easily definable but you know it when you see it. It’s because of this that I think everyone should stop trying say where K-pop is an industry, genre, culture, or something else. Kpopcore, your time has come. For anyone not in the know, a
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The infinite pricelessness of free K-pop fan labor
AKA "What’s the dollar amount of free fan labor?"
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What is going on with the battle for K-pop juggernaut SM Entertainment?
An attempt at creating a thorough, at times clearly exhausted, intro to a very complicated, lengthy situation that has given us both stress and memes
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Getting into entertainment journalism, K-pop edition
Plus an explainer and apology about why I'm not going to respond to career advice requests for the time being
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K-pop's love affair with luxury fashion is wonderful, but bittersweet
I have a terrible relationship with fashion. My mother, a particularly artistic soul, has always been eager, overzealous even, to ensure that I always look well-dressed by her definitions ever since my childhood. In adulthood, this has obviously led to some clashes because as much as I love her she
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Omega X & Loona contract wins open up 2023 as a year for change in K-pop
It feels like every year we proclaim this one a Big year for change in K-pop in January and December, but as I write this on January 16, 2023, it really feels that way. The year has just begun, but courts have already given two major wins to K-pop stars
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5 Minute Focus: Astro's Moonbin & Sanha Discuss favorite scents & 'Incense'
AKA brief five minute podcast monologues by K-pop stars
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Notes on K-pop album faves 2022
Notes on K-pop, aka Tamar Herman's, favorite albums of the year
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Notes on K-pop song faves 2022
Notes on K-pop, aka Tamar Herman's, favorite 50 songs of the year