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KARA Deep Dive #1/3: Seventeen Years Of Sweet Melodies
TW: discussion of mental health, assault, depression, and suicide KARA was one of the most important groups of k-pop’s second generation, and though their name is not as well known now as, say, Girls Generation or SHINee, they’re also still going strong. They debuted in 2008 with four members: Sunghee, Nicole, Gyuri, and Seungyeon, but…
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KARA’s Goo Hara: A Special Post
TW: mental health, depression, sexual assault, suicide (Edit, 8-28-24) I was struggling to decide what to do with the Moon Taeil news this morning. Posting as normal didn’t seem right. Neither did going silent. So I decided that it was the right time to publish this piece, if only to give some insight, the only…
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F(x)’s Sulli: A Special Post
TW: Mentions of mental health, depression, and suicide. By the time I was a k-pop fan, F(x) hadn’t had a release in a couple years, and so I never really got into them. I am a fan of Amber’s solo career and I know a bit about Krystal through her sister Jessica, a former member…
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ASTRO’s Moon Bin: A Special Post
(TW: mental health, depression, suicide) Hi everyone. This is a special review, so I’m starting with a personal note. I admit I didn’t know much about ASTRO before last year, until Moonbin, one of their members, passed away, but as a ShaWol (SHINee fan) and a huge fan of Jonghyun, who left us in the…
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Yena Deep Dive: K-pop That’s Gonna Make You Smile
Yena first debuted in the huge project group IZ*ONE (whose other members included IVE’s Wonyoung and Yujin, Le Sserafim’s Sakura and Chaewon, and current soloists Jo Yuri, Lee Chaeyeon, and Kwon Eunbi) in 2018 at age 19. After their disbandment, she became a soloist herself in early 2022. Here are my credentials: I first became…
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Stray Kids Deep Dive #3/3: Proving K-pop Can Be Self-Produced
Here are my credentials (one last time): If my stan card was a 2012 FaceBook status, it’d be labeled “it’s complicated”. I’ve been a k-pop fan since early 2019, and Stray Kids were one of the first groups I knew and started liking. But, despite still occasionally keeping up with their work and being a…
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