I recently visited the New Jeans pop-up store at The Hyundai Department Store in Yeouido. I arrived around 6:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, waited for 3 hours until 9:30 a.m., registered for admission, 

엔터테인먼트 사업이 전자상거래로 확장되는 전환점...

NEWJEANS: Entertainment to Commerce

I’ve met K-pop fans quite often because of my job. This was in the early 2000s, so I think it's been around 20 years. At that time, the word idols was a more common expression than K-pop, and fandom w

What's Most Important in K-pop Fandom

Being a fan is an experience. Diving into that experience. So I decided to tell the story of the people who actually went through that experience. Today is "The Joy and Sadness of Photo Card(=Poca)". 

🍰The joy and sadness of photo cards (6) | Photo cards have a market price

Surprisingly, records sell more. So it's a problem RIAA tally 1999–2021 U.S. album shipments As strange as it may sound, album sales have increased as of 2021. In the U.S., the world's No. 1 music mar

도움이 되었다니 기쁩니다! ^^ 대안적인 음반 포맷이 여럿있는데 그 중에서 저는 네모앨범이 제일 눈에 띄더라고요. 하지만 미래는 어떻게 될지 모르죠. ㅎㅎㅎ 암튼 업계에서 이런 시도가 계속 일어나리라는 건 분명합니다. 자주 쓰도록 할게요! 고맙습니다. 

What happens when you put a song in the photo card?

Being a fan is an experience. Diving into that experience. So I decided to tell the story of the people who actually went through that experience. Today is "The Joy and Sadness of Photo Card". It's Pi

🍰 The joy and sadness of photo cards (5) | There are only photo cards in the album?

[CRITICALLY SPEAKING: K-POP] The future of K-pop depends on stars speaking up (joins.com) The future of K-pop depends on stars speaking up The debut of virtual singers has been making headlines with p

"More K-pop stars speaking up"

[Herald interview] Today’s K-pop is more intricate, complex (koreaherald.com) Unlike most music critics who jump into the world music at a young age, K-pop music critic Cha woo-jin confesses he was no

Today’s K-pop is more complex

Le Seraphim's new song + album has been released. Not long ago, I was able to listen to their new songs in advance on Hive. I didn't see the music video, but I watched the members through the performa

LE SSERAFIM - Fearless | 2022.05

Writing about music and lyrics. IVE - LOVE DIVE (2:58) | 2022 The beat is good, but the simple melody and the harmony of the members are beautifully filled. In particular, the sense of space delivered

IVE - LOVE DIVE (2022)

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