Hailing from Costa Rica from a family of musicians, JP Castillo was practically born into music. “[Music] was always in me,” he reminisced. From a young age, he would […]
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Meet the Boys of EXP, NYC’s Own K-pop Boy Band
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com Columbia University student Bora Kim riled up the K-pop world about a month ago when word of her MFA thesis project—a non-Korean […]
2NE1’s ‘Crush’ Appears on Rolling Stone’s Top 20 Pop Albums of 2014 List
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com America has been a tough market for K-pop acts over the past decade, even with the success of “Gangnam Style” back in […]