On October 17, Saturday, 2PM member Nickhun tweeted in support of the pro-democracy protesters in Thailand, his native country. Nickhun's tweet reads, "Violence does not help in this process whatsoever."
South Korea is infamous for having one of the world's strictest beauty standards. In the country, there are very specific features that are considered attractive and even the slightest deviation from it can be considered unattractive. While beauty is subjective, most entertainment agencies select trainees and who gets to debut with those standards in mind. Knowing this, here are the top 10 male visuals in K-pop that have visuals in line with South Korea's strict beauty standards.
In the K-pop industry, celebrities, and idols having stage names are not shocking. However, the following K-pop idols seem like they are using their real name as their idol’s name, but they are actually not! See the list and you will surely be surprised to know that it is only their stage names!
NCT 2020 is on a roll! On October 13, Tuesday, NCT's second full-length album, "RESONANCE Pt.1," topped iTunes Album Charts in 32 different countries upon the album's debut.
You surely heard of the “Generation of K-pop” that includes the first, second, and third-gen groups. However, are you aware that we are currently in the fourth-gen K-pop?In this sense, IDOLOGY, one of the longest-running critic website-magazines in Korea, had a full analysis of the genealogical theory of the K-pop’s four generations based on the paradigm shifts overseas of these K-pop groups, trends, and many more.
Pre-orders for NCT 2020's upcoming album "NCT - The 2nd Album RESONANCE Pt.1)", which will be released later today on October 12, have surpassed over one million copies in pre-orders, officially marking NCT as million sellers.
The Korean Business Research Institute released its brand reputation rankings for K-Pop boy groups for the month of September. To determine which boys groups make the list, they analyzed consumer participation, community awareness, and news coverage.
Do you believe that K-pop idols should just become idols and don’t interfere with the acting industry? Well, most of the time, idols who are debuting as actors or prominently known as idol-actors are criticized tremendously for their alleged bad or weak acting, mostly by Korean drama fans and viewers.
NCT Dream's new song Déjà Vu track video of from NCT's 2nd album Resonance Pt. 1 has been released.
"What on Earth happened in 1995?" There are a bunch of celebrities born this year and it seems they were blessed with stunning visuals. Here are 10 male idols born in 1995 that are absolutely gorgeous!
K-pop groups are usually composed of three groups, including the vocal lines, dance lines, and the rap lines. Among the three, rappers of the groups are truly honorable 'cause aside from giving spice to the narration of the song, most of the rappers listed below produce, compose, and write their own songs and verses!
The chaebol heir is usually the latest generation supposed to succeed in the previous generation and inherit their wealth and possibly their company. It is no news that some K-Pop idols have humble backgrounds. However, it is also not a shock that some come from really well off families, qualifying the term "chaebol."
While idol life is still hard after being immensely successful, it is even harder for trainees who oftentimes have to make life-altering decisions to get started on their dream journey. As such, many idols who are incredibly successful today had to make the sometimes difficult and sometimes obvious decision of having to drop out of school to pursue their dreams.