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KDrama and KPOP Concert Reviews, Travel Tips, Korean Recipes and more
(Photo : Fantagio ) As those of you who follow me know I prefer male Kpop groups to female, but even if I included girl groups there weren’t any really stand out female rookies in the first half of 2016. Cosmic Girls might go… Continue Reading “Best Kpop Rookie Groups For First Half Of 2016.”
Any retrospective review is somewhat tainted by what we know now, however, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t any value in looking back.2015 was a year dominated by BigBang, it also was a good, if not great, year for… Continue Reading “A Quick Look Back At The Three Top Male Rookie Groups Of Kpop 2015.”
Late yesterday evening I thought that, since the year was half over, I would write something about a couple of the new (2016) rookie groups that I consider to have the potential and backing to succeed in the tough world of Kpop. As I… Continue Reading “Kpop Musings.”
Photo by Robert at Picasa (2006-08-12-Andong) While watching our favorite sageuk (Korean Historical Dramas) we have no doubt seen, from time to time, the young women from good families swinging on tall rope swings. The ropes can be upwards of 20 feet long and… Continue Reading “Geune Ttwigi: Korean Rope Swinging.”
Just like a lot of people I was first introduced to this game through Korean variety shows and dramas. Alkkaggi belongs to the shove family of games along with such games as Carooms, Shuffleboard, Shove Ha’penny, and Tabletop Curling, which use one object to… Continue Reading “Alkkagi: A Korean Game.”
On Friday July 1st the Kpop group Got7 held their first concert in the US and their first stop was Dallas, Texas. They had previously held a Fan Meeting here and so it was not their first trip to Dallas, although this time more… Continue Reading “Got7: Fly in the USA Concert Review.”
A few of my friends have asked me why I’m heading back to South Korea for the second year in a row, when I’m known for always going somewhere new and different. I’ve come up with a few different answers for them, but they… Continue Reading “Seoul: In Photos.”
Kpop, or sometimes KPOP, is technically just a short abbreviation for Korean popular music, but in many ways it has come rather to denote the idol sub genre of Korean music in the minds of many foreign fans. So while Psy with his… Continue Reading “KPOP:What Is It Really All About?”
Jegi Chagi is a traditional Korean game in the hackysack/shuttlecock family. It probably descended from Cuju, an ancient Chinese ball kicking game, which is also an ancestor game to Soccer. Cuju led to the Chinese game of Jianzi which was popular during the Han… Continue Reading “Jegi Chagi: A Korean Hackysack/Shuttlecock Type Game.”
The popular Kpop group Got7 will be on their Fly tour in the US in less than a month and lots of fans are gearing up for the concerts. In the past I’ve noticed all sorts of fan made posters, banners, t-shirts, and other… Continue Reading “Banner Time: Making a Fan Banner for a Kpop Concert.”
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