As a teenager in 2009, South Korean singer Minzy debuted as one-quarter of what would become the hugely influential K-pop girl group 2NE1. Five years after parting ways with the act due to mental health struggles, she is focused on loving herself and s...
First steps I was born in 1973 in Ballycastle in Northern Ireland, the middle child of six kids. My dad was a monumental sculptor and mum worked with him – she’s a published poet. I started dancing when I was two and a half. I went with my sisters and ...
Strange warnings emerged on social media last month that a shopping centre in Tuen Mun, in Hong Kong’s New Territories, would be submerged, but instead of spreading fear the rumours brought only joy.The messages were a joke by local residents after the...
Hardly a day goes by without BTS making history, and the K-pop superstars have done it yet again.A few weeks ago, the seven-member Korean boy band hit No 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with Butter. It was knocked off top spot by another of...
In the dark corners of the internet hides a playlist of some of the most torturous, addictive music known to man. That’s right, Spotify, SoundCloud and Apple Music all have playlists of Baby Shark remixes. Do do, do do, do do, do.Would you walk 500 mil...
On Monday, K-pop singer D.O. released his debut solo EP, Empathy.Known as one of K-pop group Exo’s primary vocalists and as a popular actor, D.O.’s eight-track Empathy is an easy-listening album, based firmly in acoustic pop and R&B.Fronted by the ukul...
“Very, very worried. Nervous.” That’s how NIve feels about Broken Kaleidoscope, his new solo album, which was released this week.“I’m very excited, because I don’t know what’s going to happen. But very worried, because it’s my first album, and because ...
Eunice Yeung places her hands on her belly – she is seven months pregnant with her first child. “I’m having a boy and all I want is for him to grow up respecting women.”She’s heard many stories where that has not been the case.Yeung is a Hong Kong-base...
“We said, ‘if we are allowed to sing in English, we must’.”So says Benny Andersson of Swedish pop group Abba in This Is Pop, a new Netflix documentary that dropped in June – but these words could just have easily been uttered by a member of BTS.The K-p...
“Out of my mind.” That’s how South Korean singer-songwriter Suran describes her experience ahead of every new release, just hours before Blanket arrived on Wednesday.“I’m always out of my mind, but we shot the video really late so ... still figuring it...