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Foreign gukak band Sound Trek spreads love through 'music without borders'

Sound Trek was formed through a collaboration between the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Foundation for ...
Rolling Stone

The 100 Greatest Songs in the History of Korean Pop Music

The birth of modern K-pop is often dated to 1992, when Seo Taiji and Boys, a dance-oriented trio led by an ex-metalhead, performed their song “I Know” on the South Korean network MBC. Not only did the ...
Los Angeles Times

There’s more to Korean music than K-Pop. Young composers show how in L.A. Phil’s Seoul Festival

K-pop. Oscar-celebrated cinema. Samsung in the living room. Political urgency in the press. However prominent Korean culture seems to be, there is surprising lack of coverage of the classical scene at ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Black String, straight outta Seoul, mixes traditional Korean music, edgy improvisation and electronics

Yoon Jeong Heo is so active that it’s almost surprising she doesn’t single-handedly generate combustible energy during the course of one of her average working days. But there is nothing remotely ...
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Bruno Mars X Rose Wins 1st Korean Music Show Award with 'APT.'

This photo of Rose and Bruno Mars is posted on the Instagram of the Korean artist's agency SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- Pop ...
Soompi

Winners Of Korean Music Awards 2022

The 19th annual Korean Music Awards has announced this year’s winners! In contrast to many other South Korean music awards, which typically use sales figures as a major criterion in determining each ...
Rolling Stone

K-Pop Is Only Half the Story of Korean Pop Music

Back in 2009, eager to share my love of K-pop with pretty much anyone who would listen, I showed a grad school classmate the music video for “Lollipop” by BIGBANG and 2NE1. He laughed and told me the ...
BGR

The New Korean Netflix Reality Music Show That I'm Obsessed With

The thing I most love about Take 1, a new Korean music reality series that debuted on Netflix on October 14, is how it wraps a pretty meaningful and quite heartfelt Netflix release around a ...
The Washington Post

A listener’s guide to the next big sound out of South Korea

Everyone knows K-pop. Here are the other genres you should be listening to as the Billboard charts become more diverse. correctionA previous version of this story cited Lim Young Woong’s "Rainbow" as ...
Yale Daily News

After a year-long hiatus, Korean music collective Hangarak returns to campus

Caleb Kim ’21 glumly sat in his level five Korean class, when professor Angela Lee-Smith asked about the lack of his usual cheerful demeanor. Kim expressed the difficulty he faced while trying to find ...
AOL

There's more to Korean music than K-Pop. Young composers show how in L.A. Phil's Seoul Festival

K-pop. Oscar-celebrated cinema. Samsung in the living room. Political urgency in the press. However prominent Korean culture seems to be, there is surprising lack of coverage of the classical scene at ...