Powered by Max Banner Ads Shakira Shakira’s performance on “Dancing with the Stars” on ABC TV on Oct. 13 featured Korean traditional dancers in hanbok playing drums. The megastar appeared again with the Korean traditional dancers on NBC TV’s “Saturday Night Live” on Oct. 18, singing her new song “Did It Again.” The dancers belong to a trou...

SES & FinKL The Kim Sisters were arguably the first girl group in the history of Korean popular music. They debuted in their teens in the early 1950s, and were extremely popular among U.S. soldiers stationed in Korea. They played many instruments and danced, and enjoyed substantial success in the United States when they debuted there in 1959. After returning to Korea in 1970, they released a n...

JYP Cleaned Up For those of you who missed my earlier post about working for JYP Entertainment you should read it. Apparently JYP entertainment is looking for a full time Online Marketing Assistant to help spread the word about their Kpop talent such as Wonder Girls, 2PM, and other newcomers that are soon to emerge onto the Asian market. However, as I was digging deeper into JYP I found a first ha...

Wonder Girls So Sad You know the saying… “bright lights big city”. Anything is possible in L.A… even a Kpop mega group going on National TV… or perhaps not! I endured the teen choice awards for its 2 hour broadcast on national TV in order to find out they they were not even on air. Sure, they performed for 15000 people. I can only imagine that those select few got to ...

Se7en Over the years, as the Korean wave has touched the shores of Asian countries, several popular singers have tried to make it in the Asian market. Rain, Se7en and Yangpa have been among the notable flops, and BoA is currently releasing singles and videos in the United States. Now the group Wonder Girls is trying, with much fanfare, to make an impact. The group made its television debut on â€...

Wondergirls in Toronto The Wonder Girls will be up here in the land of the maples syrup at the end of August. Here is my opinion about that. Everyone that goes to the concert will go there for the Wonder Girls and the Wonder Girls alone. Don’t get me wrong, there will be tonnes of teens going crazy over the Jonas Brothers in the audience. However, Toronto has the 2nd largest Asian community...

Wonder Girls The Wonder Girls appeared on Radio Disney’s “music mailbag” on Aughust 1st at 11:00am. I may have said some things about JYP in my last post… and I do stand by them. However, if he continues to increase their image with this type of promotion he is on the right track. There was a recent comment on my last post by the author of Saranghae Kpop that stated “...

Are you interested in either Kpop or Jpop? Do you have a passion for Asian entertainment and news? Then perhaps it’s time to litterally make the news. Kpop-Jpop.com is currently looking for content contributors that are willing to voulinteer thier time to post interesting and relevant news articles for our readers. Kpop-Jpop.com is also looking for website promoters who are able to spread th...

2NE1 A survey was done from 19th till 26th July on CyWorld visitors on artist’s minihompy visitor hits ranking and 2NE1 members Sandara Park, Park Bom and Gong MinJi was in the top 10 chart, all 3 of them have gathered over 500,000 visits to their minihompy on Cyworld over the last short while. Cyworld is a social networking website launched on Sep 1, 1999. Cyworld is a South Korean web comm...

DBSK The third installment of All About Dong Bang Shin Ki is arriving soon, and you can get an exclusive first peek with Please Be Mine: All About Dong Bang Shin Ki Season 3 Preview Storybook! Measuring 20.5 cm x 27 cm in size, this 300-page photo storybook documents the photos and stories behind the boys’ trip to the beautiful tropical island of Saipan, which will be featured in their All A...