https://www.scmp.com/rss/500356/feed Jason Yu worked in Seoul for the past seven and a half years as an esports, K-pop, and film journalist for Yonhap News, Korea Times, and IGN Asia. After Korea, he moved back to California to help spread Asian pop culture to the West. He now writes for SCMP and creates in-depth K-pop videos for his YouTube channel Popsori. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com When Candace Sosa’s phone rang last year, the Michigan-based, 23-year-old recognised the caller’s area code was in Los Angeles, and thought this call could be big. She didn’t have a clue how big. The person on the other end was Jordan Young, better known as renowned music producer DJ Swivel. And his call would change her life. He wanted to work with Sosa on one of her personal songs and turn it into a song that an established artist might pick up. That song would be Euphoria, and the group that... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3039504/how-candace-sosas-song-killing-time-became-k-pop-boy-band?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3039504/how-candace-sosas-song-killing-time-became-k-pop-boy-band?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Nov 2019 04:00:29 +0000 “Left side say shopping, right side say spree! Together, both sides say shopping spree,” Perfume singer NOCCHi beckons the crowd. Moments later, on cue, the entire audience of 2,700 attending the San Jose, California concert scream “shopping spree!” to the delight of NOCCHi and her Perfume bandmates. Screaming these two phrases about Perfume’s love for shopping may sound a bit cheesy, but the audience were all too willing to please the techno-pop, electronica Japanese group. Their concerts are... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3015205/j-pop-girl-band-perfume-destined-us-stardom?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3015205/j-pop-girl-band-perfume-destined-us-stardom?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Jun 2019 05:00:05 +0000 Not too long ago, attending a K-pop concert for anyone living in North America meant flying to Korea. To many overseas fans, K-pop was something that was happening far away, because K-pop labels preferred to tour their artists within Asia. But with the increasing popularity of K-pop in the West, more K-pop groups are performing in North America. Times are changing, and Toronto, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and New York are now frequent stops for K-pop tours. K-pop labels never used to be interested... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3007629/how-k-pop-bands-bts-and-blackpink-cracked-north-america?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3007629/how-k-pop-bands-bts-and-blackpink-cracked-north-america?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Apr 2019 06:00:07 +0000 “Our North American tour is finally happening,” said an excited Jennie, one of the four members of the K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, while appearing on the American television show Good Morning America in February to huge cheers from the audience. Jennie, 23, whose real name is Jennie Kim, and her fellow members. Jisoo, Rosé and Lisa, have enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame since the release of their hit debut single, Boombayah, in August 2016. The success they have achieved up to now was... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people-events/article/3006488/k-pop-girl-band-blackpinks-us-tour-marks-meteoric?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people-events/article/3006488/k-pop-girl-band-blackpinks-us-tour-marks-meteoric?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Apr 2019 06:00:09 +0000