UPDATED 9/6/09: Super Junior - Sorry, Sorry — by Nikki on Sunday, September 6, 2009

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(the edit on September 6, 2009 is at the end of the post.) I haven't reviewed any full-length albums since I started the special so now...

FOR THE END OF THE SPECIAL: What is Kpop? — by Nikki on Tuesday, June 23, 2009

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With you guys and the world(well I'd like to think that way..) to see, I've spent the past few weeks submerging myself in Korean Pop...

A crash course in Korean Pop V 2.0. — by Nikki on Monday, June 22, 2009

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Hold on, hold on. Didn't I say yesterday that the last K-pop special post would come today? Well I changed my mind. There's one last...

ALL the songs featured during the K-Pop Special — by Nikki on Sunday, June 21, 2009

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Well, almost. For sampling purposes and so you guys can hear the songs in HQ to really find out what you like and what you don't, I'...

Sugar - Secret — by Nikki on Friday, June 19, 2009

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I just noticed something. It's like the girl groups in Korea came one after the other - there was most probably no period since 1998 tha...

SS501 - 4 Chance — by Nikki on Thursday, June 18, 2009

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SS501 are one of those boybands in Korea that aren't insanely popular to the point of legendary like 2PM, DBSK, Super Junior and Big Ban...

Jewelry - Superstar — by Nikki on Wednesday, June 17, 2009

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It's only hit me now that I've found over twenty K-pop songs/albums worth writing about and featured them all - that's a lot of ...

Big Bang and 2NE1 - Lollipop — by Nikki on Tuesday, June 16, 2009

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Big Bang are the rapping boyband in Korea - they live for it but apparently a lot of people are also really attracted to the genre. Hm. 2NE1...

IU - Growing Up — by Nikki on Saturday, June 13, 2009

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Yes, the girl's stage name is IU. Strange but that can be forgiven. This girl was fifteen when this album was released. When she finishe...

Se7en with Lil Kim - Girls — by Nikki on Wednesday, June 10, 2009

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I'm not extremely excited about Koreans trying to break the US mainly because I don't think it's superior to breaking the UK or ...

Super Junior - Miracle — by Nikki on Tuesday, June 9, 2009

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Sorry for the abundance of boybands but I haven't discovered this many since I did the special! It's astonishing how these South Kor...

SHINee - Noona Is So Pretty (Replay) — by Nikki on Sunday, June 7, 2009

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Note: Noona is used by Korean guys to address an older woman. After all the heavy, serious R&B songs I've heard from the boybands i...

Kim Jong Kook - Today More Than Yesterday — by Nikki on Saturday, June 6, 2009

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I haven't written about that many guys so I suppose now would be a good time to start. A little info - this guy used to be in a duo(forg...

SeeYa - Hot Girl — by Nikki on Friday, June 5, 2009

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One thing you should know about this song before anything else - IT DOESN'T HAVE A RAP PART! Finally. That's one amazingly good thi...

Rain - It's Raining — by Nikki on Thursday, June 4, 2009

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I'd have to admit, this wasn't one of my favorites when I first got hooked - I saw nothing special in it but for some strange reason...

Rewind: Fan Club - Baby — by Nikki on Wednesday, June 3, 2009

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This was the band Rain was in back when he was still known at Ji Hoon and before JYP turned him into Rain and I must admit, he wasn't ha...

Son Dambi - Bad Boy — by Nikki on Tuesday, June 2, 2009

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I didn't show much interest in Son Dambi while I was putting together the 'crash course' post - I had already seen two of her vi...

Park Ji Yoon - In My Fading Memory — by Nikki on Monday, June 1, 2009

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The world is overflowing with ballads, some beautiful some annoying and some boring. For me to notice and remember a ballad it has to be gor...

BoA - Atlantis Princess + Milky Way — by Nikki on Sunday, May 31, 2009

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There were two songs from BoA's 2003 album Atlantis Princess that to this day continue blow me away. These two songs are the reasons wh...

2PM - Again and Again — by Nikki on Saturday, May 30, 2009

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This is a little more current than the other tracks - a few days ago on KBS's Music Bank it went head to head Super Junior's(if you...