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Pop culture enthusiasts gather as FAN EXPO Vancouver returns

Rowena Papasin | TFC News Vancouver
Posted at Feb 28 09:25 AM

Featured celebrities included Fil-Am actor Dante Basco, who voices Prince Zuko in Avatar, and actors Michael Rooker and Sean Gunn of Guardians of the Galaxy. Read more »

Warhol nephew to auction two works by pop artist

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 15 02:11 PM

Andy Warhol's nephew will put two works by his late pop artist uncle on the market for the first time Tuesday in New York, with both expected to sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction. Read more »

Texas State University offers course on Harry Styles

Josiah Antonio, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 22 07:48 AM

A professor will be teaching the course ‘Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet and European Pop Culture’ this spring. Read more »

'Thrones' and 'Rings' fans ready for battle as Comic-Con returns

Andrew Marzal, Agence France Presse
Updated as of Jul 19 12:00 PM

Comic-Con finally returns to San Diego this week, where new "Lord of the Rings" and "Game of Thrones" TV series will compete before tens of thousands of cosplaying geeks and nerds at the world's most famous pop culture gathering. Read more »

Global talent, Korean-trained: K-pop's new recipe for world domination

Cat Barton, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 12 02:12 PM

From Indian K-pop idols to Swedish songwriters, South Korea's music industry is now a hotbed of global talent -- a smart strategy as it aims for world domination, experts say. Read more »

K-pop cheerleaders: the 'flowers' of South Korean baseball

Cat Barton and Kang Jin-kyu, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 04 09:10 AM

In baseball-mad South Korea, teams of professional cheerleaders pumping up players and fans with elaborate K-pop routines are integral to the games. Read more »

China curbs pop culture in bid to 'control' youth

Jing Xuan Teng, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 29 11:56 AM

Beijing has moved to check what it considers the excesses of modern entertainment, and urged social media platforms to promote patriotic content. Read more »

K-pop activism a lifeline for Thailand's hard-hit 'tuk tuk' drivers

Patpicha Tanakasempipat, Reuters
Updated as of Jun 28 11:16 AM

Bangkok "tuk tuk" taxi driver Samran Thammasa, 39, had never heard of K-pop star Jessica Jung before the coronavirus pandemic, but now the singer's Thai fans are helping him survive the loss of tourist customers. Read more »

Duterte declares September as 'Philippine Film Industry Month'

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 05 01:07 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte has declared September of every year as the "Philippine Film Industry Month," according to a document Malacañang released on Thursday.  Read more »

Shares in K-pop group BTS' management label Big Hit drop after debut

Joyce Lee, Reuters
Posted at Oct 15 04:05 PM

Shares in Big Hit Entertainment defied the pre-listing hype to dip on their first day of trade on Thursday, giving the management label of South Korean superstar K-pop group BTS a market valuation of 8.7 trillion won ($7.61 billion). Read more »

How ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ changed everything

The New York Times
Posted at Sep 11 11:18 AM

Here are a few of the ways the reality TV show, “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” changed not only TV, but culture at large. Read more »

Taylor Swift spends a fourth week at No. 1 thanks to full album sales

Ben Sisario, The New York Times
Posted at Aug 25 12:26 PM

Swift’s latest album, “Folklore,” is No. 1 for a fourth time with the equivalent of 101,000 sales in the United States, according to Nielsen Music. It is the first album by a woman to spend its debut month in the top spot since Adele’s “25” at the end of 2015.   Read more »

Taylor Swift, a pop star done with pop

Jon Caramanica, The New York Times
Updated as of Jul 27 11:50 AM

“Folklore” (Republic), her alternately soothing and soppy, pensive and suffocating eighth album, is a definitive jolt away from the last near-decade of Swift’s high-gloss, style-fluid, emotionally astute big-tent pop. Read more »

How Gilbert Guillermo shaped music journalism and Pinoy pop culture with Jingle magazine

Totel V. De Jesus
Updated as of Jul 24 08:39 AM

Tributes continue to pour in for Jingle Magazine founder Gilbert Guillermo, who died at 74 on Tuesday, July 21.  Read more »

Why obsessive K-pop fans are turning toward political activism

Joe Coscarelli, The New York Times
Posted at Jun 23 12:18 PM

In recent weeks, K-pop devotees have spammed a birthday card for Trump, disrupted a Dallas police app seeking intelligence on protesters and flooded would-be white supremacist hashtags.   Read more »