Features Archive
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Once a week we choose an Asian film available on Australian streaming services to quash your lockdown boredom! Given that the previous weeks’ of this series have featured
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Auditioning for national K-Pop dance competitions is standard fare for Auckland’s five-piece group, Memes Dance Crew (MDC). Making it to Wellington’s K-Culture Festival was a miracle in itself,
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Fandoms are always sticky. They’re a microcosm of society; a smaller community perhaps even closer than the neighbourhoods we live in physically, because they aren’t bound by location
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The month of February is an interesting time in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Celebrations are held on the sixth to commemorate the Treaty of Waitangi, a seemingly one-night-only repentance
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Western media consumption is now at an all-time high; network and cable television are migrating to streaming in an attempt to topple Netflix, buzzworthy content is delivered directly
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Written in collaboration by Anastasia Giggins, Wallea Eaglehawk, and K-Ci Williams. BTS, now in their seventh year as a group, continue on their upward trajectory that has taken
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Arts & Culture Reviews
There was already a palpable sense of excitement in the air among the many fans lined up outside Sydney’s Halatian Agency when I arrived in the late morning
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2019 was undoubtedly the biggest year in K-Pop so far; rookie acts and seasoned artists alike released spectacular singles that explored diverse genres and themes, while also experimenting
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Fandom Fix is where we will be taking a deep-dive into the wildly colourful, intensely powerful, and incredibly passionate fan communities of K-Pop. In this series, we will
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This week DREAMCATCHER brought their Invitation From Nightmare City tour to Australia – first stop at Sydney! For those that don’t know, DREAMCATCHER is a seven-member K-Pop girl
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The MTV VMAs re-institutionalised a K-Pop version of the Jim Crow laws: the “Best K-Pop” category. In the 1890s, the legislatures of the American South passed the Jim
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Singapore National Day (9 August)Singapore celebrates its independence with the annual National Day Parade which includes a stunning spectacle of military processions, multicultural song-and-dance performances and aerial high
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Through collaboration, luxury experiences, and community, FestGround is changing the game for festivalgoers. The ticketing platform primarily specialises in EDM music festivals across the Asia Pacific. With a
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This weekend, ATEEZ are performing in Australia for two shows! They will be in Melbourne on the 9th of August, followed by a second concert at Sydney’s Big
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EPIK HIGH, arguably one of Korea’s most famous hip-hop groups, is finally embarking on their Epik High in Australia tour, stopping at Melbourne and Sydney for two Epik
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