We hung out with K-pop fans, food vendors and promoters – in particular those from K-Science and Technology, who brought with them the cutest robotic friend you could ever […]
Category: Music
Free Asian American concert coming to MacArthur Park in LA
A free Asian American music festival is headed to Levitt Pavilion at MacArthur Park, located between Downtown Los Angeles and Koreatown, on Aug. 13. The inaugural KX Music Fest […]
KCON 2016: Mike Bow is your new hot best friend
We chatted about Asian American representation with Mike Bow, YouTuber, ISATV host and star of “My Best Friend is Hot,” at KCON LA 2016.
KCON 2016: ‘Sweet/Vicious’ star Victoria Park on storytelling
Kore spoke to “Sweet/Vicious” star Victoria Park after a panel on Asians in Hollywood at KCON LA 2016 – check it out!
KCON 2016: Aritaum innovates through Korean beauty
K-beauty products find an American audience through Hallyu events like KCON Los Angeles – watch our interview with Aritaum!
Korea’s favorite rock band YB celebrates 20 years
YB, South Korea’s most famous rock band, performed in Temecula, California, in June to celebrate their 20th debut anniversary. Fans began lining up outside the golden doors of the Pechanga […]
Finding her identity: An interview with Japanese Breakfast
Japanese Breakfast is an emo band from Philadelphia led by singer-songwriter Michelle Zauner, who is Korean on her mother’s side and Caucasian on her father’s side. “My mom was […]
KCON LA: K-pop expands, and takes other K-goods along for the ride
G-Dragon, current King of K-pop, lays on your lap and flashes you that boyish grin of his before leaning in for a kiss on the cheek – wait, is […]
Seoul punk band returns to US for West Coast tour
Coming back to America for a second tour from South Korea’s punk scene is …Whatever That Means, a four-member melodic rock band. The tour, which will run July 23 to […]
Miss A’s Suzy drops soundtrack for coming K-drama ‘Uncontrollably Fond’
Who isn’t “Uncontrollably Fond” of Suzy Bae, South Korea’s national sweetheart? The Miss A singer, who saw her duet with EXO’s Baekhyun, “Dream,” top charts earlier this year, released […]
Korean singer Hwang Chi-yeol coming to Pechanga
South Korean vocalist Hwang Chi-yeol, also famously known as Huang Zhi Lie to Chinese audiences, will put on his first-ever U.S. concert for two nights inside Pechanga Resort & […]
On the Rise: Steady Holiday
Steady Holiday, a rising Los Angeles-based singer whose real name is Dre Babinski, spoke to Kore about her upbringing that influenced her debut album, “Under the Influence,” released earlier […]
Rapper Dumbfoundead talks coming new album & growing up
What do film and TV characters like Jack Sparrow, Jon Snow, Neo and Indiana Jones have in common? Well, they’re all portrayed by white men — and as of […]
Electric Strings Quartet performs at 2015 Unforgettable Gala
Instrumental group Electric Strings Quartet performed at the 2015 Unforgettable Gala on Dec. 12. Their two song set included a cover of “Smooth Criminal.”
Raffia performs at the 2015 Unforgettable Gala
Singer Raffia performed at the 2015 Unforgettable Gala on Dec. 12 inside The Beverly Hilton. Her two-song set included a performance of “I’m Every Woman.”
