This Week In K-Pop Being Japan-ified: 2NE1’s Video For “Go Away”

ByPatrick St. Michel

Let’s go back in time and revisit something I wrote back in March when 2NE1 made a special stop in Japan to perform “Go Away:” “It’s also clearly a female empowerment number, hinted at by the title but also driven home by the overall feel of this song and the video. Japan at least features…

Self-Promotion Plus: Writing About K-Pop In Japan For The Atlantic

ByPatrick St. Michel

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Wie3GKjy0″] In which I finally get a big platform to share my love of Girls’ Generation…sorta. I wrote an article for The Atlantic online about K-Pop’s growth in Japan over the past year, which you can read here. It features a bunch of videos which you’ve probably seen around these parts since last August…though the…