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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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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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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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On the evening of the 19th June 2019, something that Australian fans of the South Korean megastars, BTS (Bangtan Sonyeondan), often pray for happened – their beloved band
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It’s almost April, but you can never be too late to recap the previous year, so this is a list (in debut date order) of my favourite 10
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Hello Asia writer Renee Goh has gone through each and every K-Pop debut in 2016 to present her 10 Underrated K-Pop Debuts this year.
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Heads were turned, minds were opened and TVs across the Philippines was turned on and channels were flipped. This is what happened during the run of Filipino reality
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Previously releasing a government-issued document putting many restrictions on the content of Mainland Chinese dramas that ban the use of puppy love, LGBT, and other scenes, China’s government
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Loving something so passionately might be easy but being a fan girl is certainly no easy task. You take on the responsibility to spread the love and
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As I’ve continued to dig deeper into ways in which Taiwan music pits itself against competition from the Western music world, I chanced upon this song that
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