The Year of the Tiger, which begins on February 1, has a special significance in South Korea: Korea and Koreans are often associated with the striped feline, and tigers have become a popular symbol of Korean identity.While tigers are common motifs in K...
K-pop boy band Enhypen dropped their new album, Dimension: Answer on January 10.The extended version of October’s Dimension: Dilemma, Answer has three new songs. As well as the single Blessed-Cursed, the “repackage” album features two extras: the bounc...
Recent years have seen South Korean pop music acts achieve global popularity on a scale never seen before – especially in 2021. But while outside Korea it may seem like all the country has to offer is energetic K-pop “idol” boy bands and girl groups, t...
A new K-pop girl group, IVE made their debut on December 1 with their high-energy single Eleven, and promptly won over listeners.Since then, they’ve racked up wins on South Korean weekly music shows, and seen Eleven make it onto music charts across the...
Gabriel Teodros started selling CDs of his hip-hop music when he was 18, but the amount of money he makes from recorded music, which he puts on the music streaming platform Spotify, has plummeted since the CD era.In December 2021, when Teodros shared h...
In the world of streaming, your favourite K-pop artist’s songs may be fuelling carbon emissions.Between mass streaming and growing album sales, both of which are great for artists but less so for the environment under current modes of consumption becau...
Though January 1 rang in the Gregorian year of 2022, February 1 will mark the Lunar New Year of the upcoming Year of the Water Tiger.Like all other animal years of the Asian zodiac calendars, the Year of the Tiger arrives every twelve years: the last y...
The four members of the Italian rock band Maneskin grew up gigging around Rome. But when they flew into Los Angeles for their first sold-out gig at the Roxy in early November, there was one local site of Saturnalian bad behaviour they just had to visit...
If you’re a fan of either Jay Park or Jae Park you may have started 2022 off a little surprised as the stars, both active in the South Korean music scene, announced they would both be parting ways with their long-time companies.Jay Park, the 34-year-ol...
On January 1 a new K-pop group, GOT the beat, debuted with the song Step Back, and some people feel it is a bit of a step back musically.A seven-member project group launched by Korean pop music label SM Entertainment, and reportedly the first of sever...