the kpop edition

[acchikocchi]

1. So give me the lowdown on SM Entertainment as a corporation. How do they recruit/train/market/etc., especially in comparison to JE? Info on shady business practices and lawsuits and things of that sort also welcome. XD ...How does the Korean music industry and market compare to the Japanese in general, actually? There is no such thing as tldr in comments here.

2. Favorite Korean artists/songs/albums/music videos? I am woefully ignorant. Pop, not pop, what have you - hit me. (Assume I know basically no one except Park Ji-yoon, since that's... true. Oh, and BoA.)

Comments

[wintersjuly.livejournal.com]

i'm not going to lie, korean girl bands do it so much more for me than their male counterparts (though, they're also pretty dishy to look at as well)

i like 2ne1 (though, apparently THEY ARE NOT 21 AND THAT THEIR BAND NAME HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH 21 EXCEPT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY SOMETHING EVOLUTION OR SOMETHING. I DON'T KNOW) and i'm a huge, huge lee hyori fan, and clazziquai is everyone's favourite with good reason :D

i also like boa (no really, i do), brown eyed girls had a few nice songs, so did wonder girls who toured with the jonai brethen and i don't know what the hell was up with that, though they had this one song that was uber huge in korean that i liked a lot. and SS501 had some music i liked a lot, too - the lead singer was rui in the korean hana yori dango and he was so pretty *_*

my brother suggests FX, Four Minute, Girls Generation, 1TIM - i don't any of them but he says they're big and new. also he said shinee, which i said no, because JAILBAIT, yo

[(Anonymous)]

UR WRITIN IT RON. f(x) is kinda... dull?

But I like 2NE1!

[mananeh.livejournal.com]

That was me! LJ logged me out ^^;

[wintersjuly.livejournal.com]

ahahahah XD i've never heard of them, know them or anything. all i know is that korean bands occasionally have silly names XD

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, right, I do know Clazziquai from their work with m-flo. That I liked a whole lot. *puts at top of list*

Thank you thank you, I will follow up on all your suggestions. :D