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  As YouTube Turns Seven, Google Holds K-Pop-Themed Birthday Bash
  2012/05/24, Source,
  People wait to enter the Korean Music Wave in Google concert co-organized by YouTube and MBC at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, on Monday (top); All of the performers appear on stage at the end of the concert. /Yonhap Some 20,000 American K-pop fans gathered at the Shoreline Amphitheatre near Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Monday evening to watch a concert dubbed "Korean Music Wave in Google". It was co-hosted by Google's YouTube and terrestrial Korean broadcaster MBC. The fans lined up for about 1 km to enter the venue,...More

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  YouTube celebrates 7th anniversary with K-pop
  2012/05/23, Source,
  Girls' Generation perform during "MBC Korean Music Wave in Google" at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif., Monday, to celebrate the anniversary of video sharing service YouTube. / Yonhap By Kwon Mee-yoo As YouTube celebrated its seventh anniversary, K-pop singers from TVXQ to Kara performed and rocked Silicon Valley. YouTube, which is now Google/YouTube, and Korean broadcaster MBC co-hosted Monday the "MBC Korean Music Wave in Google" at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif., to celebrate the anniversary of the world's largest video sharing service. Google took over YouTube five years ago,...More

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  Dream Concert Held In Seoul
  2012/05/14, Source,
  The top idol stars in k-pop gathered for the ultimate annual musical spectacle the Dream Concert. The 18th annual Dream Concert was held at the World Cup Stadium in Seoul on May 12th, where the hottest acts were all on the list of acts. Fans got to see TVXQ, Girls' Generation, Taetiseo, 2PM, 2AM, MBLAQ, Sistar, Secret, Beast, 4minute, Infinite, Boyfriend, A Pink, T-ara, Kara, B1A4, Ailee, EXO-K, ZE:A - Children of Empire, Davichi, Rania, and TEEN TOP,...More

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  Dancing in the Street: Choreography in Kpop
  2012/05/11, Source,
  * This post is written by Crystal Anderson, one of the Korea Blog's Worldwide Korea Bloggers. Dance is a huge part of mainstream Kpop, and while many recognize the dances popularized by the groups and artists, few know the people behind them: the choreographers. Not only do choreographers impact Kpop through their routines, they also have an impact on fans as well. The choreography that accompanies many Kpop songs instantly catches the eye. It is one of the first things people notice and associate with Kpop. In a retrospective of Kpop choreography, Jordan Close and Mai Nguyen note the complexity of the dance routine created by Rino Nakasone and Shim Jae Won for SHINee's "Lucifer":  "As a whole, the dance includes an impressive amount of detail in movement, level changes and formation changes. In particular, the 'handcuff dance' made it big in Korea".  =djJb5iSL0Do= Nakasone and Shim demonstrate some of the complex moves here in a dance workshop:,...More