My contact at Billboard.com has informed me of their current release of the week. Here is a snipped from their press release. As former members of the South Korean boy band TVXQ, the trio of Kim JaeJoong, Park YuChun and Kim JunSu are no strangers to pop stardom. Formed in 2003, TVXQ became hitmakers at home and in K-pop-crazy Japan (where it was known as Tohoshinki) and elsewhere in Southeast As...

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Comcast Expands On Demand Access to South Korea’s Top Young Music Stars with Monthly K-Pop Offering from Television Korea (TVK) Come this fall Comcast is expanding its popular K-Pop offering to now provide extended On Demand access to the greatest hits from the biggest names in Korean pop music. The line-up includes hit-makers like SM Entertainment’s Girls’™ Generation, whose ...

Over the past 7 days we have been running a contest for our insider club members who comment on our blog. The prizes that we set up for this contest were an autographed CD from Bada (formerly from S.E.S) and two autographed posterd from the same artist. Last night we did a random draw from over 700 ballots. Some members had well over 100! We have 3 winners. *Disclaimer start* This draw was not fo...

Kpop-Jpop.com strives to give our readers the best information, the best insider information, and THE BEST CONTESTS! That being said, we have just decided to increase the ods of you winning something cool! You all knew that we are giving away an autographed Cd from Bada. here it is in my hand! Now we got something else in store for you! Guess what it is… Two Bada Posters! Do you know what...

The contest is finally here! The Kpop-Jpop insider club contest is here! I am super excited about this because we are giving away an autographed CD from Bada (former member of S.E.S)! In order to qualify for this contest you must meet the following criteria… You must be a Kpop-Jpop.com insider club member You must comment on a Kpop-Jpop.com blog post Each post comment that you make will eq...

If you are not a member of Kpop-Jpop.com the insider club, I suggest that you join for free TODAY. We are going to give away an autographed CD and poster from Bada. If you are not part of the club, you will not get a chance to win this cool prize! Autographed Bada CD ...

Step 1 Select the right song. The song should be one that is challenging, yet easy for you to perform infront of a group of people. The song should also fit the genre of the audition. For example, if it is a Broadway audition, a Broadway song should be sung. If it is an opera audition, a hip hop song will not be appropriate. In this case, you are doing a KPOP addition. Therefore you would need to...

Korean films added to the Korean Wave offering sensational scenes and plots, in a manner different from those offered by Hollywood. They contained strong characteristics of Korea and the feelings that many Asians could easily assimilate. For example, the Korean film “Shiri” became a hit in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, because of how he deals with the sensitive North and Sou...

The term Korean Wave refers to the phenomenon of Korean popular culture, mainly circulated through the mass media and enjoys a wide popularity outside of Korea. It has identified Korean television, film, internet games, fashion and popular music. It is not known exactly when the term Korean Wave has started to become popular among Asians, but state media have begun to recognize the Korean popular ...