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 Whimsy and innocence? In K-Pop? Stranger things have happened.

It would be too easy to say that KARD’s latest track is—*coughs*—the bomb, but when a song absolutely slaps as much…

Urban Zakapa is one of Korea’s more prolific R&B groups, with five full albums and multiple extended plays, plus a be…

The debut title track for Girls’ Generation’s first subunit is interesting for several reasons, not least for its…

Trot is a uniquely Korean genre that’s had somewhat of a resurgence recently, after years of it being treated as…

What exactly is K-Pop? Does it exclusively refer to mass-produced idols, or is there room for a broader definition?…

With Girl’s Day’s Sojin announcing her departure from her agency, yet another one of my favorite groups has bitten…

Winter is winding down, and that means I have precious few days left to share as much cold weather-inspired music as…

Before the boy group Highlight overthrew the yoke of agency contracts and struck out a new path as independent…

A confession: I usually crank these out sometime past midnight, with a mug of tea, and the lights dimmed. Maybe…

Captain Marvel came out last week, and three of Kotaku’s Marvel aficionados—Seung Park, Mike Fahey, and Maddy…

Epik High is back! The kings of many a high school karaoke sing-along party have returned with LOVEDRUNK, the title…

Among the many, many idols who’ve attempted to spin off from from their (often dead or dying) parent groups,…

More Latin vibes in K-Pop is unquestionably good, as faint as they may be.

The music video for Sunmi’s latest, Noir, is a biting critique of the image-obsessed Instagram influencer. This…

Leessang was one of the greats of mid-to-late-2000s Korean hip-hop, and one listen to any of their title tracks is…

Korean indie music is all well and good, but sometimes you’re in the mood to listen to slickly cheerful popstragavanz…

In the middle of my first listen of So Sorry, I found myself wondering: how have I never heard of Joy o’clock before?

Do you want to hear a idol group named Dalmatian sing lyrics like “doggy dog woof woof woof”? Yes, yes, you do.

As winter starts to ebb to a slow and meandering close, I find myself drawn to more lo-fi, jazzy tracks than usual.