In case you hadn’t heard, we successfully funded a Kickstarter in less than 3 days on August 18, 2015, and now we’re making a 2016 calendar out of our […]
Month: August 2015
Rolling Stone Names CL as One of the ’10 New Artists You Need to Know’
Rolling Stone has named CL of K-pop girl group 2NE1 as one of the “10 New Artists You Need to Know” of August 2015. The music magazine described CL as […]
A Meal and a Webcam Form Unlikely Recipe for South Korean Fame
Pictured Above: Kim Sung-jin, 14, broadcasts himself eating delivery Chinese food in his room at home in Bucheon, south of Seoul. Better known to his viewers by the nickname […]
U.S. Senators Introduce Legislation to Expand Korean War Veterans Memorial
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim james@charactermedia.com Two U.S. senators have proposed expanding the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. to include a “Wall of Remembrance.” The wall […]
Vote for Your Favorite Hot Asian Men To Be On the Haikus with Hotties 2016 Calendar!
Have you heard of our Kickstarter where we were trying to convince our publisher to let us make a calendar out of Audrey Magazine’s non-award-winning series Haikus With Hotties? […]
Photoshop Experiment Shows How the “Ideal Body” Looks Like in Different Countries
Beauty standards for women seem to only be getting harder and harder to achieve. One day, everyone wants a thigh gap and the next day, every song on the radio […]
‘Show Me the Money 4’ to Hold Concerts in L.A. and NYC
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com After much speculation, Mnet has confirmed that popular Korean hip-hop competition series Show Me the Money 4 will be holding concerts in two U.S. cities […]
‘Assassination’ Becomes South Korea’s Biggest Film of 2015
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com Over the Liberation Day weekend, Assassination became South Korea’s top film of 2015, garnering a total of 10.79 million admissions, according to the Hollywood […]
Top Stories of the Week: Justin Kim on ‘ANTM’ and Popsicles Inspired by Asian Desserts
1) Meet Justin Kim, the First Korean Male Contestant on ‘America’s Next Top Model’ [READ HERE] 2) Recent Study Shows Asians Are STILL Underrepresented in Hollywood […]
Help Us Convince Our Publisher to Make a “Haikus With Hotties” Calendar
Dear loyal reader, We’re going a little bit rogue here and launching a fun Kickstarter campaign for you all. Hear us out! If you’ve been following Audrey Magazine, […]
‘Right Now, Wrong Then’ Wins Top Prizes at Locarno Film Festival
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo‘s film Right Now, Wrong Then took home two prizes at Switzerland’s 68th Locarno Film Festival on Saturday. Right Now, Wrong […]
N. Korea Threatens Strikes Over South’s Propaganda Broadcasts
by FOSTER KLUG, Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Saturday threatened to attack South Korean loudspeakers that are broadcasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda messages across their shared […]
Super Junior Wins Choice International Artist at 2015 Teen Choice Awards
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com Super Junior on Sunday became the first Korean artist to ever win a Teen Choice Award. The 2015 Teen Choice Awards took place […]
5 Things to Know About Korea’s Liberation Day
by KARIN CHAN editor@charactermedia.com Today marks the 70th anniversary of Japan’s World War II surrender, which liberated the Korean Peninsula from Japanese colonial rule in 1945. In South Korea, […]
Korean American Documentary on ‘Comfort Women’ Premieres in L.A.
by ALEX HYUN | @ahyundarkb4dawn editor@charactermedia.com The Last Tear, a documentary film about Asian women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese imperial army, premiered at CGV Cinemas in Los […]
