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BTS Army ‘Walk of Love’: Purple moving around the edges
The community walk was organized in less than a month. —PHOTOS BY VERONICA MARGARETTE TAPIA
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September 9, 2024October 8, 2024K-Pop

BTS Army ‘Walk of Love’: Purple moving around the edges

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Immediately at 7 a.m. on Sept. 8, a Sunday, you hear the music from the speakers as you walk across the park before even seeing the throngs of purple-shirted people gathered under the vast dome-like architectural canopy of the public space. The very center of this wide area is cordoned off in a square of...

First K-Pop Academy in PH culminates in recital
KCC director Kim Myeongjin and P-Pop group KAIA with the K-Pop Academy students and their guests at the recital —CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
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August 20, 2024August 20, 2024K-Pop

First K-Pop Academy in PH culminates in recital

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The Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines (KCC) has concluded the first ever K-Pop Academy in the country, a groundbreaking event that thrilled local K-Pop enthusiasts.  The K-Pop Academy ran from July 5 to Aug. 2 and culminated in a recital on Aug. 3 that showcased the talent and hard work of the first batch...

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A fan’s photocard collection of the eight-member group Stray Kids
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September 9, 2023September 10, 2023K-Pop

K-Pop fans and the seduction of merchandising

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Korean entertainment companies are well aware of fans’ parasocial relationships with K-Pop idols, and take advantage of fans’ obsessive splurging tendencies by offering a slew of merchandise marked with their idols’ images. To book collectors, the woodsy smell of a new volume can be an emotional experience. To K-Pop fans and merchandise collectors, unsealing the...