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This article is not the best or most well-researched thing that the AV Club has produced. It reads more like one person's journey into K-Pop.. and by the way, they got into it 4 years ago. Also as if they were paid off by SM Entertainment, as 3 out of 5 groups mentioned are produced by them. Not that I don't enjoy the

I really liked:

He's definitely in on the joke - PSY is on the same "label" (not the most accurate representation of YG Entertainment, but that's what I'm going with) as some of the most famous, gorgeous and properly "Gangnam-style" people (c.f. Seungri of BigBang, who the Korean media often calls out for spending a lot of time in

He's definitely in on the joke - PSY is on the same "label" (not the most accurate representation of YG Entertainment, but that's what I'm going with) as some of the most famous, gorgeous and properly "Gangnam-style" people (c.f. Seungri of BigBang, who the Korean media often calls out for spending a lot of time in

@Chum Joely

Couldn't agree more - 뻑이가요 is one of my favourite songs of all time. The video is just the icing on the cake. Though everything that GD is involved with is pretty solid pop music.

This is why I really appreciated GK's mention of K-pop. I'm living in Korea right now and being introduced to K-pop has really helped fulfill the void of dancing in music that I listen to in North America. And though I love Big Bang with a passion, their dancing is pretty simplistic as K-pop goes. SHINee is a better

I don't know about Bobcaygeon (the music video seems to suggest that it's about seeing a show), but "Summer's Killing Us" definitely is. A very bleak picture of the shows I love seeing in the summer.