국제교류와 한일교류도 흐르는 방향이 바뀌고 그 흐름 속에 섞여가는 것들도 바뀐다.  나는 20대에 일본의 이바라키현에서 8년간 유학을 했는데 동네 슈퍼에서 바나나를 처음 먹었다. 바나나는 부자집 아이들이 소풍가는 날에  담임선생님에게 몰래 낱개로 선물하는 귀한 과일이었다. 나는 일본의 슈퍼에서 바나나를 한다발 사서 상처나지않게 조심스럽게 자전거에 싣고 기숙사방으로 가져와서 먹었다. 대학교 기숙사 방에서 낡은 TV를 통해 접한 세련된 대중문화는 내가 일본에 유학온  이유를 찾기에 충분했다.  입학허가서와 무거운 가방 4개를 들고 나리타공항에 내려 전철과 노선버스를 갈아타면서 기력을 다해 찾아간 고생에 대한 보상이었다.  밤마다 일본 테레비를 탐미했고 머지않아 아이돌 인형 Wink의 팬이 되었다. 일본경제는 최고조의 버블호황이었고 한국의 대중문화와 TV프로그램은 일본의 TV와 가요를 베껴쓰는 수준이었다.  

国際交流と日韓交流も、流れる方向が変わり、その流れの中にあるものも変わる。私は20代の頃、茨城県で8年間留学をしたのだが、地元のスーパーでバナナを初めて食べた。当時の韓国では、バナナは裕福な家庭の子供が、遠足の日、担任の先生にこっそり1本プレゼントをするような貴重な果物だったのだ。スーパーでバナナを1房買い、傷がつかないよう慎重に自転車に乗せ、学生寮の部屋で食べた。学生寮の部屋にある古びたテレビから流れてくる洗練された日本の大衆文化は、私が留学する理由を求めるには十分だった。入学許可書と重いかばんを4つ持ち、成田空港から電車と路線バスを乗り継ぎながら、苦労して訪れたことに対するご褒美だった。毎晩、日本のテレビ番組に陶酔し、すぐに人形のように可愛いWinkのファンになった。日本経済はバブル経済の絶頂期で、韓国の大衆文化とテレビ番組は、日本のテレビ番組の歌謡を真似ているレベルであった。

Nina Ménoret ( FRANCE) acopia.news@gmail.com

SM Entertainment est une maison de disque sud-coréenne fondée par Lee Soo-man en 1995. 

La société exploite un label, une agence de voyage, une agence de talent, un société de production de films, une société de de production de musique, une société de gestion d’évènements et de concerts et une société de production ainsi qu’une maison d’édition musicale. 

C’est l’une des plus grande maison de disques dans l’industrie de la Kpop.

Nina Ménoret (FRANCE) acopia.new@gmail.com

JYP est une maison de disque sud coréenne. 

L’agence a été créée en 1997 par Park Jin-Young sous le nom «  Tae-Hong Planning Corporation » elle est devenue « JYP entertainment » en 2001.

Aujourd’hui elle fait partie de l’une des plus grande entreprise du divertissement.

Nina Ménoret (France)     acopia.news@gmail.com

Kpop Flex est le premier festival de Kpop Européen. 

Inaugurer en Allemagne à Frankfurt il y’a 20 jours. 

Cette première date marque le début de nombreuse dates dans toutes l’Europe. 

Nina Ménoret (france) acopia.mews@gmail.com

YG Entertainment est un label discographique sud-coréen qui produit des artistes, acteurs et models. Situé à Séoul et plus précisément :

                                3, Huiujeong-ro 1-gil, Mapo-gu, Séoul.

Zuzia editor（Poland）

I was lucky and had a possibility to join BTS Permission to Dance On Stage offline concert. The show was held on 10^th of March and 12^th,13^th of March. First show started at 7pm and the next two at 6pm. The entire concert was held in Jamsil Olympic Stadium. The access to the stadium is simple, you can take line 2 or 6 and get off at Jamsil Sport Complex.

I had a chance to be there at the very first show. The concert started at 7:00, there was no delay.

I was sitting just next to the stadium, and I was able to hear everything. There were a lot of people who also did not have a change to go inside the stadium and were having fun outside, like I did. They were singing so loud, that everyone outside the stadium was able to hear them singing.

Concert was 2,5h long, for my luck it was not raining like it was on Sunday’s and Saturday’s concert, so me and rest of the people were able to last to the end of the concert. It was not cold either so even though it was dark already, it was not a problem to last till the end. But people from weekend’s concert cannot the same thing.

Seoul was the second city to promote Permission to Dance On Stage Tour. The first one was Los Angeles, where 4 concerts where held on November and December, now the third city will be Las Vegas. Concerts are on April and also 3 dates for the shows were scheduled.

There are not further plans, what after Las Vegas, every time another city with concert is announcement just right after the last planned and announcement show.

Sabrina Gradolf  editor（Switzerland） 

The government of Seoul created a zone for handprints of K-pop stars, including BTS, at its main sports complex.

The Music Star Zone, installed at Seoul Olympic Stadium, also known as Jamsil Olympic Stadium, features handprints of 35 musicians from 12 singers or groups who have performed at the stadium in southern Seoul.

Besides BTS members, full-size handprints of TWICE, Cho Yong-pil, Seo Tai-ji and HOT are displayed at the zone, along with copper plaques that contain their career summaries.

The Seoul government also created seven photo zones at the stadium complex, from which visitors can take pictures of Seoul Olympic Stadium, a statue of Olympic mascot Hodori, a statue of legendary marathoner Son Gi-jeong and other monuments in the background.

The Music Star Zone is expected to provide new attractions to domestic and international visitors.

Laerke Andersen editor (Denmark)

To kick off the new year, Kep1er debuted with their song “Wa Da Da” with an exciting music video. The song has now become the lead single of their first six-track mini album “First Impact”, which was also released on January 3. Besides that, the project includes two other new songs which is: “See The Light” and “MVSK”, as well as versions of Girls Planet 999 tracks.

 The date for the release of their debut song was originally planned to be on December 14 but it got postponed to 2022 due to COVID-19. It began with a staff member being tested positive and a week later, the agencies announced that two of the members had been infected too. 

Kira Hermansen editor (Denmark)

KCON is an annual Korean wave convention held in locations across the globe, it’s a music festival created by Koreaboo and organized by CJ E&M. It was first held in Southern California as KCON in 2012 and has since expanded into eight countries as of 2018.

 In 2015, KCON expanded to Japan and then soon afterwards announced the first KCON in USA on the East Coast. In 2016, KCON expanded into Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and Paris, France. In January 2017, KCON announced that they would be hosting their first KCON Mexico at the Mexico City Arena on March 17 and 18, 2017.