JaK Wave

Wave Riders, are you ready for another Korean music act due to come to Europe? K-Hip Hop organisers YoungBros are bringing kings of the undergroup K-Hip Hop scene Andup and Jisim to seven cities in Europe in June and July, including a stop in London! (more…)

The last time we at JaK were able to see B.A.P in concert, it was in 2014 at the Brixton Academy in London. I had a side view of the entire show where it was all bells and whistles with massive LCD screens. However, a few weeks later their much publicised fallout with with TS Entertainment occured and there was silence from them for about a year… Only for them to come back towards the end of 2015…

The wave of Kpop in Europe is not set to stop anytime soon in 2016! MYNAME will be the next group coming to the UK capital with other stops for Europe in September including Poland, Romania, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany and Sweden. (more…)

Last month I ventured back to the city of Seoul for my regular holiday. Whilst I was there, I had the opportunity to sit down and have an interview with a current YouTube favourite of mine, JK from JKTV. Only being active for a year, his channel is one of the fastest growing in terms of Kpop Reaction vids and Korean Culture (he has recently surpassed 100k subscribers!). He was excited to sit down…

Well of course you would all know by now that KCON is finally coming to Europe! KCON Paris was announced mid last month with a flurry of excitement to be taking place on 2nd June with the roster chock block with amazing artists such as SHINee, BTS, Block B, FT Island, F(x) the newly formed I.O.I and hosted by Leeteuk from Super Junior. However, when tickets went on sale on the 29th April, they…

JaK Review - Inspire Me Korea Gift Box!

Following our introductory post last week about the exciting new monthly gift box from Inspire Me Korea, we were lucky to have a gift box sent to us so we could review it! Check out below what goodies the March box had to offer! (more…)

Hi there Wave Riders! Did you enjoy the first part of the interview with Youtubers BapMokja and Haeppy? Of course you did! So why not continue on and read part two of the conversation we had when we met up in Seoul! (more…)

Good news UK K-Culture fans! A new monthly gift box has just arrived bringing you the best of Korean treats and gifts! Brought to you by new start up, Inspire Me Korea, this monthly culture box was launched to give people who love or are leaning about Korean culture. (more…)

JaK Interview - Youtubers @BapMokja & @CuzImHaeppy (pt 1)

This one has been a long time coming! Last year when I went to Korea I had the pleasure of sitting down with Youtube duo BapMokja and Haeppy. Since then they have reworked their YouTube channel to not only being K-Pop MV Reaction focused but also providing a comprehensive insight into life in Korea as foreigners. Since their channel has garnered a lot of interest following the format change,…

  A recent phenomena was highlighted to myself recently whilst having a discussion on my next JaK-related trip to Korea next month (more details about that later)- there have been a lot of instances recently where idol group line-ups have changed after they have debuted; both with adding members or members leaving. (more…)

Every month K-pop fans are delighted to hear that their favourite idols are performing in a new and upcoming musical, or making their key acting debut in a new movie or Korean drama. Most of the time its pretty much over-looked and we all applaud and cheer that our talented public figures are showing their potential to the fullest… But there is another side to the story, where not everyone in the…

Hey wave Riders! How have you been? We have another exciting K-Hip Hop event coming up that you all should mark down on your calendars! Kidoh, i11even, Supreme Boi, Hashmate, Don’t Call Me A Dog and Type-C are coming to London. Do the names sound familiar to you? Of course they do… as they are all names that have been linked to your favourite artists in mainstream K-Pop (such as Topp Dogg and…

JaKWOW-K #95 – Music #1

안녕하세요 물결 타는 사람들! 다시 만나서 반가워요! Hello Wave Riders! It’s good to see you again! Once again, it’s time for JaKWOW! JaK’s Word of the Week; KOREAN EDITION! (more…)

JaK Wave Roundup: VeteranSplasher’s Happy K-pop 2015 Review (part 2)

Following on from my previous article where I couldn’t do a simple top 10 of 2015 and instead decided to do a top 20 – I re-visit some of the key songs of my 2015, and along the way fangirl slightly (only slightly). There is a good mixture once again but I would love to hear about your top 10 of 2015 as well, so be sure to comment bellow or comment on one of our many social media pages. (more…)

JaK Wave Roundup – NessieSenpai’s Favourite K-Pop Releases of 2015

Wave Riders, how are all of you? It has been a long time for everyone… we have all been busy but we wanted to close 2015 with a BANG and what better way than to look back at this year and the best releases K-Pop wise? There is no way these could be put in order  (we would be well into 2016 before I can successfully attempt to do that)- so to eliminate bias here are my top 10 K-Pop releases of…

Japanese food: Sponge Cake! Recipe included

Japanese sponge cake is very light and fluffy. It is a very important component for Japanese Western-style sweets. There are mainly two kinds of sweets in Japan: Japanese-style (Wagashi) and Western-style (Yogashi). Even though they call it “Western”, modern Western-style cakes and pastries are heavily and almost exclusively influenced by French desserts. (more…)