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march Sean Richard Dulake: A Profile.....................Pg 6 Coast2Coast Interview...................................Pg 8 Return of BigBang..........................................Pg 14 EXO: Will They Live Up to the Hype?..........Pg 16 TRAX: Live in New York................................Pg 17 Understanding Korean Censorship..............Pg 22 The Front Line: Review...................................Pg 24 BigBang “Blue” MV Review...........................Pg 25 Backstage: Mitchell Grey................................Pg 26 MBLAQ 100% Review...................................Pg 32 Who Wore it Better........................................Pg 35 Who Has the Longest Legs?...........................Pg 36 Stars in their Eyes............................................Pg 37 Find 7 Differences...........................................Pg 38 SYKA................................................................Pg 38

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Hallyu Wave Hits Europe..............................Pg 39 Lee Hyori, Nation’s Angel.............................Pg 40 Featured Album: Last Fantasy by IU............Pg 42 Seoul One Day Tour......................................Pg 43 Planning Your Visit to South Korea............Pg 44 Jong In Yoon Interview.................................Pg 46 BigBang Crossword.......................................Pg 48 UKISS: Patience is Their Virtue...................Pg 50 Fan Art Corner...............................................Pg 51 Easy Hangul....................................................Pg 52 Affiliated..........................................................Pg 53 Featured Sponsor............................................Pg 54 About Us..........................................................Pg 55

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Phoungpaulica Lay

HALLYU: What was it like to work with Flowsik and Playboy and was it fun ? J1: It’s always fun. Especially working with Playboy he’s always fun to be around, and with Flowsik it was cool. Kay Oh: Flowsik I’ve known since New York. Sometimes we bump heads were friends still, sometimes we fight but at the end of the day we’re all just having fun with the rap gig. Everybody wants to be known for our talent, Flowsik whoa, he’s very good. He’s influenced a lot of people in this company to become a better rapper. He’s a good guy. J1: Yeah we like Jay. Hi Jay! HALLYU: If you could work with any artist in the world who would it be? J1: Rihanna. Hi Rihanna! Bassagong: YDG-He’s got a style of his own and he’s very different. Xenomix: J Lim from JYP. HALLYU: What kind of music inspires you? J1: Any good music inspires me, not just Hip-Hop, Rock, R & B, I listen to any thing that’s good that I can relate too. I try to see how I can say that towards my audience so they can relate to me. I am inspired by any kind of music. Xenomix: Hip Hop. HALLYU: Do you play an instrument? J1: Guitar, bass, drums, little bit of piano…I just like to learn and mess around with the instruments Xenomix: Our mouth is our instrument. HALLYU: What are some of the situations you rapped about that actually happened to you? Kay Oh: Everybody raps about what they are going through. We don’t have song writers for us, we all write our own raps. Everything I write about is basically us. There are people who go through a lot of hardships and we want them to know we got them. HALLYU: Can you describe your musical style? J1: My style is honest. Whatever kind of song it is it’s coming from my heart. I just say whatever I need to say, whatever I want to say at that moment. Xenomix: I want to be more mainstream, but stay unique. I’m really good with all different styles. J1: Xenomix is one of a kind.

BASSAGONG

Bassagong: I just like rap and hip hop.

TRAX

Live in New York

RAX has graced New York with their powerful voices and insightful tips for hopeful trainees. TRAX was present at HITSNY, The Hallyu Idol Training Services, New York, at Bennette Media Studio first auditions. TRAX is a rock band formed in 2004. The name TRAX refers to â&#x20AC;&#x153;recording tracks,â&#x20AC;? as well as, to the stage names of the band members, Typhoon of the Rose Attack on X-Mas. Current members are Typhoon, the leader and main vocalist. He is also known as Jay Kim; and X-Mas, who real name is Kim Jung Mo, and the guitarist for the band.

TRAX has provided helpful tips and guidance to hopeful trainees during their auditions and afterwards performed for the crowd of fans that have been invited to the live performance.

During sound check TRAX had a little fun playing around!

TRAX Greeting the crowd

n i -F MC, Leonardo Nam

Fan won TRAX album!

Article By Darla Cornett

Understanding South Korean

“BEAST banned for inappropriate lyrics!” “Raina reigned in because their dancing is too sexy!”

Headlines like these appear in K-pop blogs, forums,

and other fan gathering sites time and again. International fans often have a hard time comprehending the censorship practices employed in South Korea, particularly when they compare them to the music and dancing that is considered appropriate in their own countries. Thus, comments on these posting range from outburst of rage, sighs of resignation, ponderings over confusing policies, and the occasional joke about whether or not America media products are completely banned from South Korea. These posts beg the question “What is the deal with censorship in South Korea?” and the goal of this article is to provide the baffled and irritated among us K-pop fans with some insight into this situation that affects us all on a regular basis. To understand the censorship policies of South Korea, we have to understand the place from which they originate. The creator and enforcer of censorship in the land of K-pop is the Ministry of Gender, Equality, and Family (MOGEF), one of fifteen ministries that exist within the South Korean national government. The censorship of music is directly handled by the ministry. When it comes to choreography changing and lyric altering for television performances, the TV stations are the ones that require changes. However, the stations that air the most popular programs, KBS, SBS, and MBC (the homes of Music Bank, Inkigayo, and Music Core respectively) are all national stations, meaning they are owned, at least in part, by the government (the president of KBS is actually approved by the president of South Korea). As a result, these stations are under greater government control than independent stations and are more likely to bend to the will of government agencies, including the Ministry of Gender, Equality, and Family. B2ST’s Rainy Days was under fire as well

The MOGEF covers a wide variety of issues which stem from seven core policy focus points, including: gender sensitivity, women’s resources development, women’s rights protection, family policy, youth policy, migrant women, and group interchange cooperation. It is the fifth item in that list, youth policy, which directly affects producers and consumers of K-pop the world over. In the “Outline of Youth Policy” on the ministry’s website, there is a section titled “Increasing environmental factors that intimidates sound growth of the youth,” and two key points directly related to censorship practices in South Korea are listed under this section. They are: -Increasing harmful media with violent and obscene contents and the expanding addiction to the Internet game. -The rate of youth drinking and smoking increases and the number of publications harmful to the youth also increases. Both of these categories are very broad, and neither the Korean nor English versions of the MOGEF’s web page offer any concrete descriptions of vague terms such as “violent and obscene content” or “publications harmful to youth.” The only additional information to be gleaned from the Korean version of the ministry’s website is an introduction to the Youth Protection Committee.

Censorship Practices Rania’s Pop Pop Pop

BEAST’s first album and Raina’s spread leg dance was altered for TV performances. Sometimes the larger music companies, like SM Entertainment, YG, and United Cube, will fight back against the censorship requirements, spending time and money to get the ministry to change their position. Sometimes the MOGEF agrees to change their rating, and other times, as in the recent case of Kim Hyun Joong, South Korean courts make the decision. As was noted in many articles about the class-action lawsuit filed against the MOGEF by a collective of Korean indie artists, the unclear censorship standards result in the banning of hundreds, if not thousands, of songs. This both damages the potential of artists not represented by the major labels to achieve high levels of success and can stifle the creativity of artists, writers, and producers in the music scene. Kim Hyun Joong’s Please

However, this section only provides specifics on how to committee members are selected (including a list of current members). The mantra of protecting youth from harmful things is again reiterated with no explanation as to what constitutes such harms. The result of this is that we know who is responsible for censorship in South Korea, but there is a lack in understanding of how such decisions are made. Perhaps within the MOGEF there is a set of guidelines detailing what is and is not harmful for the youth of Korea. However, if such guidelines exist, they have never been made available to the public. While there may be legitimate reasons a government agency chooses not to publish internal guidelines, when this occurs in a democratic country and when said guidelines affect the public, especially when the effects seem unnecessary or over the top, it tends to result in negative reactions, from disenchantment to accusations of corruption. Many of the MOGEF’s decisions, to fans both living in and outside of Korea, appear arbitrary or to be a reflection of old-fashioned views about what is appropriate and what is not for youth. Unfortunately, while there is currently no clear avenue for understanding the logic (or possibly lack of logic) behind the censorship decisions of the ministry, we can see how the entertainment industry within South Korea responds to imposed restrictions. More often than not, the chosen method of dealing with the ministry’s censorship is to accept it and move on. Cube Entertainment stuck an age restriction label on

Though the Ministry of Gender, Equality, and Family’s reasons for determining what is harmful for the youth of Korea and what is not are muddled and unclear, one thing is certain: fans and the music industry are not taking these censorship attempts based on vague reasoning lying down. While there is inherently nothing wrong with wanting to protect the youth of one’s nation, in a democratic society like South Korea, government agencies must realize that their decisions should be based on logic and fairness that the people can understand. If artists and fans continue to take the MOGEF to task on their unclear policies and arguably outdated opinions on what is and is not appropriate, then it is likely that an expansion in the variety of K-pop (and other genres that are currently largely suppressed because of the MOGEF’s censorship) will occur, and this will surely be a benefit not to just K-pop fans, but to music fans and promoters of the right to freedom of expression the world over. Now we are resigned to live in a transitory period where it is unclear if the pendulum will swing towards more freedom or more “protection,” but at least now international fans of K-pop have a clear idea of who to direct their frustration towards and why, and this can lead to better and more informed decisions about how to promote the change that fans desire to see.

Written by Grace Jeong

The Frontline

As South Korea’s entry for the 84th Academy Award’s Best Foreign Language Film, The Frontline (2011) is a competitive player. It is a South Korean blockbuster that takes you to the heart of the Korean War. Directed by Jang Hun (Rough Cut) and written by Park Sang-Yeon, the film is set in the last throes of the war which occurred at Aerok Hill, a location right at eastern front of the war. The film stars Shin Ha-Kyun as Kang Eun-Pyo, a South Korean lieutenant who is sent on a covert mission to Aerok Hill to investigate both the murder of a South Korean officer who commanded the Alligator Company and a mole that mailed a letter from a North Korean soldier to his family in the South. There he meets his childhood friend, Kim Su-Hyeok, played by Go Soo, who was believed to be dead. Go Soo plays a radically transformed soldier who was once meek and useless, but is now hardened into a ruthless fighting machine. This movie is a dramatic thriller that doesn’t hesitate to bring the viewer into the gore and violence of war, but it also portrays the brotherhood and rivalry that binds soldiers together. This movie expertly explores the futility, reality, and sacrifices of war through welldeveloped characters, steady plot development, and high production quality. Like any good war film, it leaves the audience reflecting on the cost of war, not only in body count, but also in humanity.

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BIG BANG E U BL

ust right after the clock hits midnight on the 22nd February.. The long awaited comeback of Bigbang releases the full music video for the first single “Blue” off their 5th mini album titled “Alive”. Fans started the Bigbang countdown by trending #BIGBANGBLUE which reached the top place at the Worldwide Trending Topic on Twitter just a hours before the music video was officially released. The track “Blue” by Bigbang is definitely has a more mature sound and it is not heavy to the ears. There’s something about the song that makes you want to keep on listening to it and the heartfelt lyrics written by G-Dragon himself. The music video was filmed in New York and as you can see though, the never failed to impress us with their colorful clothes and in T.O.P’s case, his shocking blue / green hair! Big Bang is scheduled to make their comeback on February 29, they also announced that they will promote 6 title tracks off their “Alive” mini album which gained various reactions from medias, will they succeed in doing so? Let’s wait and see! To top that off, the band will also be having their first-ever world tour called “BIGBANG ALIVE TOUR 2012,” across 25 cities in 16 countries.

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Kay Lee

Joseph Diaz: This is like asking a mother Ryan Bandong: I’m more out doorsy too I which child she would like to let live. This would do an out door event and wear sunMitchell Grey: (laugh) Hoobstank, The is offensive almost… glasses and the beach all day. Reason. Mitchell Grey: (laughs) It’s tough… Hallyu: What are some of your musical Joseph Diaz: So I think we’re really that goals? eclectic but right now I’m in love with Ryan Bandong: I feel it would be fun bands like Good Old War and Local Na- opening for a lot people with our stuff. Matt Pana: I guess short term an album and tives. There’s so much cool indie music touring. Long term what would you think? coming out and so many people are doing Matt Pana: For me I always wanted to whatever the hell they want to because you see Lauren Hill live, I’ve always been a Ryan Bandong: Building a career and to be fan of The Fugees so deenitely to collabo- able to do this each time and just get better. can do without a label now. rate with someone like that. For more for us to collaborate with more R&B and hip Matt Pana: As our lives fulltime as what we Mitchell Grey: (laughs) hop. what we do, our passion. Joseph Diaz: It’s so cool with so many artist to come out and if you’re really to Ryan Bandong: Kid Cudi. Joseph Diaz: I hope 15 years from now seek these bands out. I don’t know some kids in a really cool band is in their Joseph Diaz: I would love to work with basement and they’re like remember Mitcheverything’s great. The Beatles, The Beach Boys because ell Grey? Just jamming out to our old songs they’re so underrated and so cool. But I on their instruments. I would love to even I Mitchell Grey: (laughs) guess they’re alive but then local natives never knew that it happened just inspired they’re so cool. Joseph Diaz: Everything’s great! somebody so much that it was like was one of those memories that stayed with them and Napon Pintong: I’m always listening to Napon Pintong: This person always pops our songs became the songs that inspired two types of genres its either electro and up into my mind and I wish I saw but never them to pursue their own dreams that would experimental or R&B soul. So it’s either be able to see was Michael Jackson. I’ll be the best. old school like Marvin Gaye, Bill Withers, never see him perform and that makes me and electro with a little drag in like Go- so sad even to watch him perform and Napon Pintong: Just share it and pass it rillaz. Just experimental, just all around, even not necessarily work with him. I down. old school, and new weird sounds that would deenitely love to do something with him and jam with him. boggle my mind. Joseph Diaz: Become like that legacy of music. Hallyu: If you could perform with any Hallyu: What is the dream venue you would like to perform at? artist alive or dead who would it be? Ryan Bandong: Cult following. Napon Pintong: We sang Incubus?

Mitchell Grey: (laughs) As a band, we Joseph Diaz: I think for me and I think about it a lot and I actually texted Ryan have to huddle. about it, Webster’s Hall Ballroom. It’s Matt Pana: That’s tough you can’t ask a New York City and I think it’s a dream but musician that we’ll go on forever. Lets do it’s likely... dead rst…

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Hallyu: If a fan walking on the street and they saw you and wanted an autograph or Joseph Diaz: It’s a good thing to talk about photo from you how would you react? we want to be down to earth in our social media. We don’t want to project that larger Joseph Diaz: (sarcastically) Aww what is than life image. We just want to be like your problem? normal guys, we love our music, and we love our fans. Ryan Bandon: (sarcastically) Why are you doing this? Hallyu: So would you set up meet and greets? Joseph Diaz: (sarcastically) Do you hate us? Mitchell Grey: We usually do things like that. Napon Pintong: (sarcastically) Get a life you loser. Joseph Diaz: We on average I would say this Summer we spent from anywhere from Mitchell Grey: (laughs) 15 to 30 minutes playing. But then we spent like an hour to 2 hours meet and Matt Pana: When we get approached it’s greet. That’s kind of like a big part of our like new to us, it’s like “wow”, like a sur- priority. If we need to stay an hour two prise to us; at least to me anyways. hours we’ll sit there and sign every single post card, take every single picture, and Joseph Diaz: Personally I geek out over meet every single fan. Because that’s a and I pretend like that’s cool here’s my au- huge blessing to be able to say, “There’s tograph. But in my mind I’m like this is two and a half hours of the line that wants cool. It’s like a sign that hey maybe we’re to meet me.” We really appreciate those doing something right and we have a deep fans because they’re the reason we get to respect for our fans and we really do appre- do this. ciate them. Hallyu: Do you plan on touring other counHallyu: Can you describe what you might tries speciically Korea? be feeling with 10,000 fans? Mitchell Grey: Awesome that would be Ryan Bandon: I’d be the same. great.

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answers: cl’s shirt and shorts, dara’s shoes and shirt, minzy’s dress and shoes, bom’s shirt.

Our Mission Statement Established in 2011, the Society of Young Korean Americans (SYKA) is an organization that encompasses all aspects of Korean culture for young Korean Americans and for all Americans. Aspects of Korean culture include Korean dance, Korean/ Korean American film, Korean music, Korean art, the Korean/ Korean American community, Korean American politics, Korean/ Korean American businesses and corporations, and the Korean language.

Connect with SYKA! E-mail: sykaphilly@gmail.com Website: www.sykaphilly.org

The purpose of SYKA is to make young Korean Americans leaders in their communities by helping them develop their skills and talents in any field related to Korean culture or American Society, and to promote Korean culture to all people. The avenue we use consists of education, our weekly events, our written blog, performances, community forums, speaking engagements, and festivals. Through this avenue, we bridge the intergenerational gaps that exist between Korean and Korean American and bridge any barriers between American and Korean.

Hallyu Wave Hits Europe by Gabrielle Luu

hile K-Pop is at its peak in South Korea, the sound waves have reached many corners of the world. Europe, in particular, has embraced the addictive tunes and catchy beats and shows little sign of letting go. Last year, SM Entertainment took a chance on Europe, Paris speciically, as one of the sites of their family concert, SMTown Live. e response: every single ticket sold in a mere 15 minutes. ose who were unable to grab tickets did not throw their computers to the ground and curl up under the covers to wallow in self-pity; they pulled together to request a second concert in a creative way: a K-Pop ashmob in front of Le Musée du Louvre (e Louvre Museum.) As the endless rush of European fans sang and danced, their determination shined through. SM Entertainment set a second date, and over 14,000 fans attended SM Town Live in Paris. Aside from SM Entertainment’s artists, others have washed over Europe. Cube Entertainment’s United Cube Concert was held in London last December, and Korean artists appeared in the higher ranks of German music channel Viva’s online clip charts. 2NE1’s “I am the Best,” MBLAQ’s “Mona Lisa” and BEAST’s “Fiction” sat comfortably at 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively. An even greater feat was Big Bang’s triumph as winner of the Best Worldwide Act Award in the MTV European Music Awards. It isn’t a stretch to believe number of European K-Pop fans can only grow as healthy and strong as in Korea itself. A survey performed by the Korean Culture and Information Service claimed approximately 460,000 K-Pop fans inhabit Europe. As the Hallyu Wave soaks the shores of more countries, who is to say the numbers won’t double—or triple—in size?

Featured Album

Last Fantasy by IU Written By Maria Smith Edited by Grace Jeong

After

a brief hiatus, IU unveiled her newest album Last Fantasy this past November, and it dominated all the music charts in South Korea as soon as it was released. Composed of 13 songs, this album explores many different types of styles using IU’s unique, soothing voice. What attracts many fans, old and new, is IU’s cute charisma and addictive personality that shines through in all of her songs. Many of the songs in Last Fantasy bring out IU’s cuteness and innocence while merging those traits with her appealing singing ability. The song “You and I,” which is the featured track of the album, combines IU’s sweet and tender voice with a melody that is both sweet and melancholy at the same time. IU’s “Uncle”, which has an upbeat melody similar to “You and I,” is a song dedicated to the young singer’s leagues of adoring male fans (called ‘Uncles’ by IU) that have supported her throughout her career. These are the two main songs that IU is currently promoting, and they both help solidify IU’s unique signature style that found success in her previous album’s title song, “Good Day.” IU’s flexibility as a singer is shown through the other songs of Last Fantasy. “Secret” is calmer than “You and I” and “Uncle,” but IU pulls it off with her soft and delicate voice. In “4AM,” IU showcases a strong but suppressed voice that matches the song’s theme of late night reverie. Overall, IU’s strength in this album lies in her ability to sing accordingly to the lyrics and to perfectly relay the meaning of her songs to her listeners.

Planning Your Visit to

SOUTH KOREA

�� Graaa Jeenn

Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism: If you are thinking of visiting South Korea to see your favorite K-Pop stars, Korean celebrities, or to just plain enjoy the “Land of the Morning Calm,” visit the website of South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism. (http://www.mct.go.kr/english/index.jsp). The website is available in Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and Vietnamese. On the website, you can nd news of the latest cultural events and features on of some of South Korea’s cultural highlights, from computer games to traditional museums. For more speciic information on visiting South Korea, go to the offcial Korean Tourism website (http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/index.kto). It is available in twelve languages, ranging from Russian to even Arabic. Here you will nd speciic information on accommodation, destinations, and attractions that are arranged according to speciic provinces and seasons. You will also nd information on travel packages and transportation that can take you to your favorite Korean drama lm locations. Hallyu readers, if you could plan your dream vacation to Korea, where would you go?

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