Last December, SPIN traveled to Seoul, South Korea, to begin reporting forSeoul Trained, an extensive magazine feature on K-pop. Our first night was spent at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena where YG Entertainment — home to PSY, 2NE1, BigBang, Tablo, Jinusean, and more — was celebrating their fifteenth birthday with a "Family Concert" showcase.
Taeyang arrived at the world famous Tattoo Parlor INKLING, we got him actually getting the tattoo , then he came out shook every bodies hands especially minds.
BigBang performs at the Prudential Center, Newark.
NEWARK — What you have to understand is that “Gangnam Style,” the goofy crossover hit that has given K-pop a global profile — it has even reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 — is still something of an outlier, a lightly ironic sendup of the genre’s eccentricities. But it’s very hard to parody something that gets more outrageous by the day. ShareTweet