It’s springtime in Korea, and that means one thing: a resurgence in the nation’s collective obsession with cherry…
Bolbbalgan Puberty’s 2016 release, Galaxy, is a vertical slice of everything that I like in Korean indie: soothing…
Something that I appreciate about the Korean language is its tendency to assign playful words to nuanced definitions…
When I brought up Mnet’s Produce and IZ*ONE last week, it led me down a rabbit hole to taking another look at…
IZ*ONE is an absolutely massive Korean/Japanese girl group (12 members!) formed with the finalists from the latest…
Some was the sleeper hit of 2014, beating out many big idol group comebacks to become one of the most representative…
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…
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…