I ended up liking the MBC show the most because it was actually exciting to watch all the way through despite its lack of collaboration stages. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge sucker for collabs (hence why my favorite performance was the SHINee/f(x) collabo which was, in all honestly, kind of a dud), but [...]

Nothing quite like ringing in 2013 after spending two straight days following these MARATHON year-end music shows. After three years of following year-end gayos, I think it’s safe to say that my standards are set way too high for these shows. I mean, this is literally the one thing I look forward to in K-pop [...]

There have been way too many things going on in my life lately for me to maintain a decent handle on what’s been happening in K-pop. I tried to watch last week’s MuCore and ended up fast forwarding through the whole thing because I recognized n-o-b-o-d-y except for like, Dal Shabet, B1A4, and Boyfriend. You [...]

So this whole I AM documentary hullabaloo has been going on for a pretty long time now, yeah? I actually watched I AM in a theater (yes, one with seats and a big screen and everything!) about a month and a half ago when I was in Taiwan, and completely by accident — I was out [...]

Contestants from SBS K-pop Star Audition cover SNSD’s “The Boys,” Glee-style: Ahhh, so much potential, so much potential. I never planned on paying much attention to K-pop Star Audition because it felt like it was just going to be a Korean version of The X Factor, and Korea’s never done a good job of adopting [...]