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The reports of K-pop's fifth generation arrival are greatly exaggerated
We're clearly amid the 4.5th gen, but people are trying to rush us out of it
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The immense joy of seeing your favorite K-pop stars see their K-pop stars
AKA "Sooyoung and Kevin have given me life in 2023"
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Who is KCON USA For nowadays?
Not legacy acts, that's for sure.
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Post KCON Existential Exhaustion
KCON & BLACKPINK concert coverage have worn me out, but it was a great time
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The American pop industry is deadish. Long live K-pop
Long live middle class pop and K-pop!
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Mini Note #3: Oh, the humanity!
Featuring Lee Hae-in and KISS OF LIFE, and Han So-hee
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Flowers of Fire, and objectifying female K-pop stars online
About that subreddit where 300,000+ people objectify female stars
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NOTES ON K-POP RE-EDIT: GOT7 Discusses Breaking Records, Selling Out Shows & Dabbing
A look at one of my first-ever interviews for Billboard, with a focus on editing & how to formulate interview questions
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Challenging Bias
TMI time: Covering a community you exist within is hard, & I'm reevaluating some things
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The designer K-pop idol is alive and well
PowerPuff Girls and iPhone meet luxury K-pop stars NewJeans
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Maybe The Real Treasure Was the Concert Friends We Made Along the Way
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Why are K-pop stars singing children's songs?
What do NCT 127’s Cherry Bomb, NMIXX’s Young, Dumb, Stupid, NewJeans’ Zero, EXO’s Kokobop all have in common? Aside from being pretty great songs, they all reference nursery rhymes and/or hand games. They’re far from the only K-pop songs that reference nursery rhymes, which begs