Been looking for a reason to post about Uee for a while. What’s Uee you say? Did I invent a new mashup of urine and pee? No, it’s 유이 (Uee) from the K-pop group After School.
She’s interesting. Yeah, I think she’s hot, but she’s also quite big, which is very unusual in Korean pop. She [...]

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From a blog I’ve been recently enjoying called Extra! Korea. A hilarious lost in translation moment on one of Korea’s more annoying TV shows 우리 결혼했어요 (we got married). The concept of the show is that different celebrities pair up and pretend they’re married for weeks on end. Sound like fun? Yeah, me too.
On this [...]

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Really intriguing fight developing between Sony ATV (publishing) and YG Entertainment (wikipedia entry here), who are one of two major Korean pop music conglomerates, over what Sony is calling copyright infringement. First, the tunes in question, then my completely unbiased opinions.
This is G-Dragon’s “Heartbreaker,” which as far as I know is still the No. 1 [...]

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I try to not go out of my way to write malicious hit pieces on this site. When it comes to Korean pop music…well, I can get a little malicious, although I’m admittedly lienient in some areas (female groups).
But this is just inane, now and for future generations. This is a new girl group and [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7hn1YuTsso

A little secret about me — I usually change my phone ring tone every month or so to an up and coming Korean pop hit. Yeah, yeah, I know…I’m very cool. Oh you say I’ve mentioned that on EWC before? My mistake. It’s something my wife and I share and I like to see the [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IefLGxcpv6k

My wife was watching a repeat of this this music program last night — MC Mong doing his current single “Indian Boy.” I knew about the controversy surrounding the song, mostly as it’s reported by the Korean media, and haven’t really have time to get into it on here, but after seen the above live [...]

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I’ll admit I was quite smitten when I saw the publicity shots for the new Girls Generation album/single/whatev’. Again, G.G. aren’t meant to be a flock of hotties, rather, they’re meant to represent a panorama of cute Korean women — the kind of girls you or I could actually meet while walking down the street [...]

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Actually, its not touring with Dinosaur Jr., but I just can’t allow myself to focus any attention on truly barfworthy Jonas Brothers, who the girls will actually be touring with. Besides, Dinosaur Jr. has a new album out with it’s old lineup and it’s absolutely fantastic…hence the purposeful mix up.

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Ok, I have to admit — the 2ne1 (pronounced “twenty one”) group I bagged on a week or so ago is starting to get into my head a little. I was at a Wa Bar with my wife the other night and I did one of those –hey, this is kind of good…who is this?– deals [...]

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A couple of things caught my eye over the weekend. First, Chae Yeon, who’s been around for a few years and is probably at the point in her career (she’s over 30) when — well, she needs to come out with a video so sexy that it’s banned from Korean TV. 
Guess what? It worked!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGTusBE93U0

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Incidental contact? Hard to tell from this photo, but Korean netizens have been in an uproar about this. The guy, Tak Jae-hoon, used to be in a popular singing group but now resorts to these sorts of weekend variety shows where, well, people fall down and laugh. The girl is Tiffany from Girls Generation [...]

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I’m not a fan nor a hater of the Wondergirls, so I’m not about to get bent out of shape when they make complete asses of themselves on recorded media. But from a general perspective of humanity, I cringed when I saw this video of them being interviewed in English at an art exhibit called [...]

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Gotta love this — fans of the groups Big Bang and Wondergirls recently joined forces to reserve up to 1700 tickets for the upcoming concert by Dong-bang-shin-ki (DBSK), only to relinquish the tickets at the last minute, rendering the seats useless and costing promoters about 10 million won ($7,225 USD).
I have some insights into how Korean [...]

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I’ve mentioned it before, but it cracks me up that most the most popular EWC post of all time is Baek Ji-young Sex Tape Leaker Revealed, Arrested, now with over 12,000 views in just under a year. The post was somewhat popular originally, but eventually slowed down to a steady platau. However, I noticed over [...]

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What a bummer. It’s not that Kang Ho-dong gets me seething at the TV like some Korean personalities do, but it sometimes does bother me how ubiquitous certain entertainers are once they’ve become popular. You can find Kang pretty much doing exactly what he’s doing in the photo above on three or four Korean TV [...]

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Last week it was Rain, this time around it’s Dong Bang-shin-ki, who like Rain, recently came back after a long layoff, and much to my chagrin is more popular than ever.
However, the offending lyrics this time around aren’t as overt as Rain’s “my magic stick is spinning in your shivering body.” According to PopSeoul the [...]

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I’ve had a couple Japanese/Korean girl pop ideas floating around this week and now a third demands I put them all in a post. First off, The Wondergirls released a new single this week and in my humble opinion  it’s pretty great. Catchy song, a good, kinda funny video (MV) and even the dance is [...]

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