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The world of K-Pop is more interesting than ever. The increasingly competitive K-Pop industry is filled with a growing wave of young talent vying to make it to the top. Among them is IMFACT who seem ….
Singers Roy Kim and Eddy Kim have confessed to distributing illegally taken photos and former FT Island member Choi Jong-hoon admitted to illegally filming obscene footage. The media was reportedly shared on a KakaoTalk group chat room that other K-Pop stars were also members of. …
Singer Seungri has been charged with illegal distribution of pornography after he admitted to participating in the circulation of hidden camera footage without consent.
On March 28, the Seoul National Police Agency confirmed that the former Big Bang member has been booked for the criminal charges. However, he has reportedly denied filming the footage himself but says he just shared it after receiving it from someone else. The police are currently checking who filmed the footage.
Coined the Great Gatsby of Korea for his taste for the high life, Seungri is also under investigation for prostitution mediation, drugs, tax evasion and police collusion related to the crime-riddled night club Burning Sun, where he was a public relations director, in the posh Gangnam district.
Though he denied the allegations and made a grovelling public apology, Seungri announced his retirement from the entertainment industry to fight the charges and spare his management agency YG Entertainment and group Big Bang from further embarrassment.
As the scandal continues to widen, the label has ended sale of merchandise related to Seungri and major Korean broadcasters stopped their VOD (video on demand) content for both the former Big Bang member and singer Jung Joon-young, who is also in the centre of the scandal.
In related news, Korean news outlet Newsdesk reported that Jung’s controversial group chatrooms, where he distributed secretly filmed sex clips, had 14 members in total with eight reported to be singers. The conversation reportedly included misogynistic messages and conversations discussing blackmailing the women with the footage.
According to the media report, Jung, Seungri, former FT Island member Choi Jong-hoon and former Highlight bandmate Yong Jun-hyung, with a further four unnamed singers were in the chatroom.
Seungri reportedly told the members: “We’re in trouble. Change your phones.”
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It’s arguably one of the biggest scandals that upended the South Korean entertainment industry and the country. A series of investigations into corrupt and illicit activities in the nightlife and entertainment industries and possibly police corruption, have been reportedly revealed among multiple high-profiled Korean entertainers. …
It’s hard to deny that there’s a growing appetite for K-Pop in the UAE. The screams of young fans filling the air and the fast-rising group Momoland holding their first UAE concert at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium on Friday speaks for itself. Who …
There’s definitely something charming about Momoland. The South Korean group brought the K-Pop fever to the UAE in the new year, much to the excitement of their UAE-based fans.
The nine-piece act will kick off 2019 and their world tour by making their Middle East debut tonight, January 4, at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium.
Ahead of their January 4 gig, Momoland sat for a press conference at Roxy Cinemas City Walk on the day of their arrival, clad in coordinated black and red outfits, greeting the media and fans in their own signature group introduction.
The all-girls group spoke about the meaning behind the act’s name, member JooE’s learning experience on the Korean military variety show ‘Real Men 300’, and the places they’d like to visit in Dubai during their brief stopover.
Last year was a game-changing one for K-Pop in the UAE. Following a domestic growing interest in the Korean global phenomenon, Dubai rang in the new year with a new K-Pop act. Rookie boy band Lucente is in town as the opening act for the …
It probably goes without saying that Momoland has been one of the most talked-about K-Pop acts in last year. The all-female act had a breakout year in 2018 and garnered international recognition for their catchy pop music and fun choreographies. Now, UAE fans can get …
K-Pop was the centre of conversation in 2018. There were multiple breakthrough moments and a spike in attention to Korean music in the highly-competitive American market. Record-breaking group BTS no doubt opened doors for Korean artists and played a role in K-Pop’s rise as a recognised industry globally this year.
While on the other side of the world, the Korean pop phenomenon’s appeal has expanded to a new and existing audience in the UAE and it has seen moderate growth in 2018. Even K-Pop boy group NCT 127 mentioned ‘Dubai’ in the English version of their 2018 track ‘Regular’, months after their performance in the city this year.
K-Pop has steadily attracted fans locally and became a mainstay of the ‘Korean Wave’ or ‘Hallyu’, which refers to the growing popularity of Korean pop culture.
The Middle East is a new and emerging market and K-Pop groups have been seen carving their place in the Emirates.
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BTS has been one of the most innovative acts in the always-in-flux world of K-Pop. After putting fans on a rollercoaster of emotions with their big screen debut announcement, the chart-topping Korean sensation didn’t hold back from their fiercely devoted fanbase in their first full-length …