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All posts tagged "K-pop"

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  EXO completes Seoul Music Award three-peat

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — Boy band EXO has become the first K-pop artist to win three awards, including the Grand Prize, for three consecutive Seoul Music Awards. The nine-member act won the Grand Prize, Main Prize and Hallyu...

  • Posted January 14, 2016
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  TWICE member Tzuyu halts China activities after flag scandal

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — Tzuyu of the multinational K-pop group TWICE will temporarily suspend her activities in China after waving the Taiwanese national flag in an online broadcast, her agency said Thursday. The 16-year-old Taiwanese native waved the...

  • Posted January 13, 2016
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  Seoul delivers barrage of K-pop across border to North Korea

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea tries to get under the skin of its archrival with border broadcasts that feature not only criticism of North Korea’s nuclear program, troubled economy and human rights abuses, but also...

  • Posted January 8, 2016
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  [POP CRUSH] Sistar, HyunA featured in Korea-themed ‘Family Guy’ episode

  Every time Western mainstream media acknowledges Korean music in some small way, we move closer toward bridging the cultural gaps that still exist between us within the global village. Or…something like that. Anyway, Family Guy featured some K-Pop...

  • Posted January 4, 2016
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  HEALTH’s John Famiglietti hopes to make noise all the way to mother’s land

  By Brian Han If you are a Korean, and your son plays on a noise-rock band, you are going to be hearing from a lot of concerned relatives and friends. “Oh my god, we have to pray for...

  • Posted December 18, 2015
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  K-pop girl group allegedly misidentified as ‘working girls’ by LAX customs

  By The Korea Times Los Angeles The K-pop girl group that was detained for about 15 hours by U.S. customs authorities at Los Angeles International Airport this week were allegedly mistaken as “working girls,” according to Korean...

  • Posted December 11, 2015
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  K-pop band Monsta X named Girl Scouts ambassadors

  In South Korea, just about everything is promoted by K-pop idols — even the Girl Scouts. On Friday, Starship Entertainment and Girl Scouts of Korea announced boy band Monsta X as the organization’s new promotional ambassadors, Yonhap...

  • Posted December 11, 2015
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