Metroactive » K-Pop https://activate.metroactive.com Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:08:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 SuperM at SAP Center https://activate.metroactive.com/2020/01/superm-at-sap-center/ https://activate.metroactive.com/2020/01/superm-at-sap-center/#comments Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:50:59 +0000 http://wp.blvdscms.com/activate-metroactive-com/?p=125529
South Korea has always had a major footprint here. Kias and Hyundais are ubiquitous. Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy and Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer—and his 2020 Academy Award Best Picture nominee Parasite—are popular and critically acclaimed. It’s unclear if bangs-sporting boy bands will ever be an American export again. But we’re happy to allow…]]>

South Korea has always had a major footprint here. Kias and Hyundais are ubiquitous. Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy and Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer—and his 2020 Academy Award Best Picture nominee Parasite—are popular and critically acclaimed. It’s unclear if bangs-sporting boy bands will ever be an American export again. But we’re happy to allow them through customs, especially when they have bangers like the mostly English-language “Jopping”—a portmanteau of “jumping” and “popping”—which boasts 58 million views on YouTube. They’ve still got a ways to go before catching “Gangnam Style” (3.5 billion streams), but who’s to say they won’t eclipse Psy someday?

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