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At Everyone’s K-Pop Manila 2025, the theme is ‘Drop your moves and feel special’
A dance fest is part of the celebration —CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
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June 13, 2025June 20, 2025Events

At Everyone’s K-Pop Manila 2025, the theme is ‘Drop your moves and feel special’

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Filipino K-Pop lovers are invited to what’s touted as “an immersive, all-out experience” to bring them closer to their passion. The event is Everyone’s K-Pop Manila 2025, a presentation by the Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines and Seoul Shinmun, in partnership with the Korea Copyright Protection Agency-Manila Office, Philippine K-pop Convention Inc., and Robinsons...

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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...