Spotlight:
(Check the carousel for my personal favorite reviews; check below for my most recent posts. Enjoy!!)
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Taeyong Deep Dive: NCT’s Leader on Long Flights, Roses, and Childhood Pets
Lee Taeyong is best known as the leader of kpop behemoth NCT, as well as their subunit NCT 127, which debuted in 2016. But, since 2020, he’s also had a fairly successful solo career. He enlisted in the military in April of 2024, and he’s coming back…in about three hours. Here are my credentials: So,
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NCT Wish Deep Dive: Crafting Joy Out Of Music Notes
NCT Wish was formed in 2023 as the fifth (and final) subunit of the mammoth SM Entertainment group NCT, which also includes NCT 127, NCT Dream, NCT U, and WayV. They’re both the news and the youngest: their six members—-Sion, Riku, Yushi, Daeyoung, Sakuya, and Ryo—-range from 18 to 23. They’re technically a J-pop group,
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&Team Deep Dive #2/2: Werewolves, War Cries, and What Counts As Kpop
Here are my credentials (again): I would consider myself a casual fan of &TEAM, in that I liked one singular post about them and they haven’t stop invading my feed since. So I finally decided to listen to the universe and cover them. Then I opened Kprofiles and immediately went: “what do you mean werewolf
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&Team Deep Dive #1/2: Werewolves, War Cries, and What Counts As Kpop
&TEAM was formed in 2022 through HYBE subsidiary YX Labels. Their nine members—Euijoo (EJ), Fuma, Yūdai (K), Nicholas, Yuma, Jo, Harua, Taki, and Maki, who range from 19 to 28—were the nine winners of a competition show. They’re a J-pop group, but they also do promotions in Korea, and made their K-pop debut in 2025.
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ILLIT Deep Dive: Natural Talent, New Jeans, and ‘Not Cute Anymore’
ILLIT was formed in 2024 by HYBE subsidiary BE:LIFT (which also created Enhypen), through the survival show R U Next? Fun fact, which I didn’t know before this review: their name is pronounced “I’ll It”, not “ill it”, supposed to represent making your own decisions. They have five members, Yunah, Minju, Wonhee, Moka, and Iroha,
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Girls’ Day Deep Dive #2/2: A Review About Female Presidents and Subverting Expectations
Here are my credentials (again): I’m coming at this one from a pretty roundabout direction, having heard of Girls’ Day via Hyeri and having heard of Hyeri via her role in the 2025 kdrama Friendly Rivalry. Just this month, she became (as far as I’m aware) the first kpop idol to win an award for
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