Author: Denise Coley
For this week’s Drama and Movie Thursday, instead of focusing on one movie or drama, this week we’re recommending a few movies to give you warm romantic fuzzies, especially since one of our contributors to Kcrush is getting married in about a week. So, in honor of her marriage, let’s all get the loving feeling with some of these movies and dramas! Of course, we can’t name them all, but these are some to get you started.
Since the year of 1995, the ‘Dream Concert’ has been annually held for the last two decades as the main event for K-pop in Korea, hosted by the Korea Entertainment Producers Association. The most in-demand and popular artists in Korea are invited to perform at the stadium each year, the performances in total last for approximately three hours. The message these concerts designate to get across to the audience (who are mostly students and young adults) is ‘Dreams and hope.’ The slogan for the first Dream Concert ever held in 1995 was ‘Love for the nation.’ The following year, the…
Continuing with our MBLAQ theme for the week, Album Review Tuesday focuses on Mirror, the group’s eighth mini album and first as a trio…
For this week’s MV Monday, MBLAQ’s “Mirror” takes the stage. MBLAQ returned last week as a trio following the departure of Thunder and Lee Joon, leaving some fans wondering if MBLAQ will survive. In “Mirror,” the remaining members give it a gallant effort with strong melodies and overall nice vocals.
DALLAS, TEXAS, JUNE 15, 2015 – The Hallyu Festival & Conference, which was scheduled for July 3, 2015, through July 4, 2015, at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas, has been postponed until July 2016 due to the current MERS outbreak in South Korea.
For this week’s Flashback Friday, we bring attention to the former K-Pop group Lady. Lady were active from 2005 to 2007 and were signed to Logi Entertainment…
For this week’s Drama and Movie Thursday, we travel to Thailand to view 2003’s Last Life in the Universe. The film, directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, stars Tadanobu Asano as Kenji and Sinitta Boonyasak as Noi. Like with last week’s Hana and Alice, the film sounds interesting on paper, but length and confusing cinematography make it draggy and confusing for some viewers…
Album Review Tuesday: BIGBANG MADE Series A On June 1, 2015, BIGBANG released the second installment of their MADE Series with A. A has six songs:….
MV Monday: BIGBANG “We Like 2 Party” This past week, BIGBANG released the A to their MADE series with the songs “Bang Bang Bang” and “We Like 2 Party.” While “Bang Bang Bang” is more in your face, “We Like 2 Party” is softer and more summery. The MV features the fun, goofy sides of BIGBANG, making it an MV that’s more light-hearted than substance-filled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFmfi1vM7co Like with “Bang Bang Bang,” (which is covered in Album Review Tuesday) the feeling of “I heard this song before” came to mind. Then it hit: Weezer’s 2005 song “Beverly Hills” has a…
Post-Taewoon-era SPEED made their return May 30 with the MV for “What U.” Heading into the song, there were some concerns circling around SPEED‘s dynamics…
Philip Ahn (Ahn Pil-Lip -안필립) was born on March 29th 1905 in Los Angeles, California. His family had moved to America from Korea in the year of 1902, Ahn..
Every week for Drama and Movie Thursday, we choose a film or drama at random to watch and review. The film may be new or old, but it’s always fun to watch…
This mini drama stars Episode 7 The episodes get shorter and shorter as this series goes along and while it does save time, it leaves me wondering how th….
Okay, to be completely honest, there has not been a drama that looked interesting enough for me to watch it. The last drama I saw was You Who Came From the…
This is very exciting news for the KARA fans. KARA is having a comeback on the 26th of May. For the last couple of days, DSP has been releasing teasers for…
For this week’s Drama and Movie Thursday, we’re still riding our Way-Back Machine. We’re stopping at 1988 to look at the excellent Studio Ghibli film Grave….
BESTie Love Emotion Review Girl group BESTie made their return with Love Emotion May 8. Hae Ryeong, Hye-Yeon, Dae Hye, and U Ji have a solid hit on their …
This week’s non-Kpop Wednesday takes us to Indonesia where we meet girl group Cherrybelle. Also known as ChiBi, the nine-member group has sometimes been …
After the annual MET Gala at the Metropolitian Museum of Arts, many were left in awe of Fan BingBing’s dazzling representation of the theme “China:..
‘The Producers’ is a new drama series that features the dramatized, yet very realistic lives of producers and staffs at an entertainment division of a..