TIME just published an awesome piece on K-Pop going global and if it’s on TIME – you know it really is!
The story touches upon K-Pop
artists using social media to reach a global audience and mentions artists such as, Taeyang, 2NE1, and internet sensation, Apple Girl.
As a child who used to hide from his parents to dance to cassettes of Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, Dong Young-bae says he was too shy to tell anyone he wanted to become a famous dancer and singer. Not anymore. Today, the 22-year-old South Korean singer and dancer known Taeyang is facing the spotlight as an international pop star. Thanks in no small part to a long-standing trend in Asia that renders all things Korean cool, Taeyang is going global, riding the so-called Korean Wave all the way out west.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2013227,00.html#ixzz0xinBgTgA
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2013227,00.html#ixzz0xinBgTgA
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