Oh My! We are getting close to the end of the year, and the end of this blog~ Jupp, this blog will be ending in December, and I want to keep it as a source to look back on... Though this wont be the end forever, I’ll announce a continuation of this blog some time next month, but before that, is there anything you’d like to see as an end of year post? Do you want a list of all the most re-blogged posts of they year? or maybe a playlist of some kind?  And don’t forget to follow @kpopupdated for more old and new K-pop as well as updates on this blog and the new one coming soon ^^

More albums released in September: 

1993 - Boohwal (부활), released their third album: Amnesia 

1994 - DJ DOC, debuted with the album:  슈퍼맨의 비애

1996 - Goofy (구피), made their debut with: Much Much

Happenings in November:

21st, 1999 Fly To The Sky had their debut performance on MBC’s  로그인 H.O.T.

28th, 1998 - S.E.S. had their debut performance with ‘I’m Your Girl’

Most Popular Post Of The Month: BIGBANG with their album, Remebmer and MV for Sunset Glow!

Song : Go Away

Artist : DJ DOC

1. Kim Gun Mo - Wrongful Encounter (you’re not korean if u don’t know this song. i know this song. you know this song. your dog knows this song.)

2. Hyun Jin Young - You Inside My Dim Memory (guys always wore hoodies to the karaoke to dance to this song)

3. Turbo - Black Cat Nero (yes, THAT group w kim jong kook in it)

4. Roo’ra - 3!4! (back when sangmin was rich. also the other guy in this group got arrested for raping minors so,, yeah. still a good song tho)

5. Deux - Look Back at Me (considered to be THE best dance duo in history of kpop)

6. Seo Taiji and Boys - I Know (yg was in this group. this song literally changed the korean music industry. true legends)

7. Kim Wan Sun - Pierrot is Laughing at Us (my mom saw her in real life & thought she was the prettiest girl ever. the original hyuna)

8. Lee Jung Hyun - Wa (techno queen. i heard lady gaga saw her and got inspired)

9. H.O.T - Candy (first kpop idol group. half of the population of high school girls left school early whenever they held concerts)

10. DJ DOC - Run to You (night clubs in korea only played this song for a while after its release)

11. Sechskies - Couple (the rivaling group of h.o.t. they got back together again in 2016 yay!)

12. Cool - Lady on the Beach (this song plays every summer. every. summer. THE summer song)

13. S.E.S - I’m Your Girl (sm’s first successful girl group. they got back together, but all of them are married)

14. Koyote - Pure Love (the og horse dance before gangnam style. everyone at the club danced to this at once)

15. Zaza - In the Bus (idk what else to say but this is one of those songs that most koreans know)

16. Um Jung Hwa - Poison (the korean beyonce. male singers would rush out of waiting rooms to watch her perform)

Lineup Announced For 2017 Dream Concert In Pyeongchang

Dream Concert is making its way to Pyeongchang this fall!

On September 8, it was announced that the concert’s lineup will include EXO-CBX, VIXX, Wanna One, Sunmi, B.A.P, EXID, Red Velvet, ASTRO, NU’EST W, MONSTA X, Ailee, HALO, LABOUM, CLC, B.I.G, DIA, gugudan, PRISTIN, Weki Meki, TRCNG, DJ DOC, Baek Ji Young, and NRG.

This event will be held on November 4 at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Plaza…

The 15th Annual Korea Times Music Festival!!! 4/29/17

I remember the first generation of idols (before snsd and big bang) but the group that captured my ears and my heart isn’t really an idol group. They weren’t pretty, their songs were often critical of Korean culture and often flippant about societal expectations, and they were always getting in trouble (being blatantly disrespectful, causing scandal, getting into drunken brawls).  Yet they were HUGE, they continue to be well loved by the Korean public and you hear their songs being covered by current idols all the time.

My first kpop bias is DJ DOC!  I guess I’ve always had a thing for bad boys (or in this case socially conscious but borderline criminal men).

Here they are as now middle aged men performing kind of a medly of 4 of their most popular hits (I couldn’t find any of their older vids with any decent quality)