[NEWS]BIG BANG in KOREA - People & Culture magazine


The Korean Wave continues spreading, and it was featured in KOREA- People & Culture magazine's April, 2011 issue.
K-pop groups like Big Bang, 2NE1, Wonder Girls, Miss A, SNSD and others were mentioned, here's a sneak peek.

[Will update with better quality scans when available]




Some excerpts from the magazine read:
YG Entertainment put music videos by 2NE1 on YouTube and they had 10 million clicks in just two weeks.
Most recently, Tonight, the lead single off a mini album by Big Bang, was spread around the world through YouTube. It has surpassed 3 million viewers, topping the list in Korea.
It also led all music videos in Japan, enjoyed the most comments, made the most favorites lists and received the highest ratings. The video has also fared well in non-Asian countries.
It was the second-most watched music videos in Australia fourth in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and fifth and sixth in New Zealand and France.

[...]
(Talking about a TV program, not sure yet in which country)
..."Some viewers requested K-pop music, and the program played 2NE1, 4Minute, BoA, Girls' Generation, 2PM, G-Dragon, Super Junior and SHINee."

[...]
Lim Jeong-Hee, a stringer [newspaper correspondant] in Brazil, said Leitura Dinamica, an entertainment program on Rede TV, a terrestrial network, played Tonight by Big Bang.
"The music video for Tonight capped off the program after midnight on Feb 28, after a series of world famous artists were introduced," Lim said.
The host of Leitura Dinamica said, "Big bang is the most accomplished group in Asia and within just two days of the release, the group's new album was an instant hit in Canada and New Zealand."
On this program, Drunken Tiger and his wife Yoon Mi-Rae greeted their Brazilian fans with fluent English and Korean.

Thank you Ouley G.D for the photos!

Content transcribed from photos of the article by
KOREA- People & Culture - Magazine, April, 2011
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