While it may seem that the current norm in K-pop is single-fandom (the tendency to support just one artist), data suggests that older K-pop fans started and continue to be multi-fandom. This may be another way the overall K-pop fandom has shifted in the past few years. With the rise of K-pop groups, their individual…
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Fugitive: Plan B (2010)
Click to jump to a section: BASICS REVIEWS AWARDS BASICS Title Fugitive: Plan B/Runaway: Plan B Genre Action/romance/comedy Episodes 20 Network KBS2 Main Cast Bi (Rain) as Ji Woo Lee Na Young as Jin Yi/Jini K Lee Jung Jin as Chief Detective Do Soo Yoon Jin Seo as Detective Yoon So Ran Daniel Henney as…
JYP (Jin Young Park)
Click to jump to a section: BASICS FANFACTS VIDEOS DISCOGRAPHY: KOREAN RELEASES DISCOGRAPHY: JAPANESE RELEASES BASICS Name Park Jin-Young (Jin Young Park, JYP) Debut 1994 Status Active Label As Is (?) 1994- 1997(?) Tae-Hong Planning Corporation (1997-2001) JYP Entertainment (2001-) Fan Name None Origin of Fan Name N/A Official Website http://www.jype.com/ Related Websites Click to…
An Informal Review of Sun Jung’s “Korean Masculinities”: Part 3, Misplaced Chinese Literary Metaphors and the Shower Show
All right, time to talk about Rain and Sun Jung‘s treatment of the Almighty Godfather of Modern Kpop. I will try my best to point out both the good and the bad in this chapter, but unfortunately there is a lot more of the bad than the good. Let’s begin.
An Informal Review of Sun Jung’s “Korean Masculinities”: Part 1
Don’t get too excited: this book may have a very, very sexy picture of Rain on the cover, but it’s a trap. Published in 2011 by the Hong Kong University Press, Sun Jung‘s Korean Masculinities and Transcultural Consumption: Yonsama, Rain, Oldboy, K-Pop Idols has been talked about quite a lot in the academic field of Cultural Studies….
Rain (Bi)
Click to jump to a section: BASICS FANFACTS VIDEOS DISCOGRAPHY: KOREAN RELEASES DISCOGRAPHY: JAPANESE RELEASES BASICS Name Jung Ji Hoon (Rain, Bi/비, Pi, Yu) Debut April 24, 2002 Status Inactive (Military Service 2011-2013) Label JYP Entertainment (2002 – 2007) J-Tune Entertainment (2007- ) Fan Name Clouds Origin of Fan Name N/A Official Website http://www.rain-jihoon.com Related…
KPK: Kpop Kollective 