A while back, The Seoul Story had the chance to talk with the boys from NU'EST about their music, life, and upcomings. Enjoy the interview as a Christmas present from The Seoul Story! The Seoul Story [TSS]: Besides practicing, what do the members do in their free time? Baekho: Myself and Aron like listening to music so we listen to music and share good songs together. Minhyun likes to watch other artists stages so he’s always watching Youtube. JR always plays games and watch funny videos alone haha :D TSS: What are you listening to lately? JR: I’m recently into a Korean hip-hop competition program ‘Show Me The Money’ so I’m listening to the songs from that program. Especially Bobby or Iron’s songs. TSS: Which member would you pick to…
Multi-national group Cross Gene, comprising of Japanese member Takuya, Chinese member Casper and 4 Korean members: Shin, Seyoung, Yongseok and Sangmin, were definitely a friendly bunch when they sat down with the media at the press conference for the Skechers Sundown Festival in Singapore. The 6 boys announced their arrivals with vibrant and loud “hellos” and “how are yous”, much to the amusement of media personnel in the room. The press conference started with Cross Gene introducing themselves, after which they sat down with the media for a Q&A session. They mentioned that they were honoured and excited to be representing Korea on a stage where artistes from all over Asia would be putting on spectacular performances. The boys each signed a specially designed shirt afterwards which will be displayed…
After speaking about his work in music and recommending some music to readers of The Seoul Story, Eric Nam shared his love for the stage and his fans with us as we spoke during Eric Nam’s visit to Melbourne, Australia last week for the 2014 K-Wave Festival. The Seoul Story (TSS): You mentioned in an interview that you’d really like to go abroad and perform for fans around the world – how has that worked out so far? Any countries on your wishlist? Eric Nam (E): Well I’m here, so it’s worked out very well. What a lot of fans don’t realise is that I don’t get to say ‘Oh, I’m going to travel to Australia and I’m gonna do a show in Melbourne.’ There has to be an organizer…
First introduced to the world as a YouTuber who uploads covers of songs, The upbeat 25-year-old successfully broke into the K-Pop scene through a talent scouting program and debuted soon after under B2M Entertainment. The singer, who just released his latest single ‘Ooh Ooh’ earlier in April, exuded charm and good spirits as he spoke with The Seoul Story about his thoughts on music-making and life as a performing K-pop artiste. The affable singer/entertainer was in Melbourne, Australia over the weekend as special guest star for the 2014 K-Wave Festival. The Seoul Story (TSS): What aspect of making music excites you the most right now? Eric Nam (E): So this isn’t actually for my music, but I work with Sweettune a lot, and I do a lot of their demos and guides…
The annual K-Wave Festival returned this year on the 6th of September in celebration of modern contemporary Korean culture. Thousands of Hallyu enthusiasts, dressed up in their best fan gear, flocked down to Federation Square as early as 10am in the morning in anticipation of the event – it’s like the Comic Con of K-Pop here at Melbourne! The Seoul Story brings you the highlights from the exciting and fun-filled program! Are You a True K-pop Fan? This year’s festival was themed ‘Battle of the Fans’, and for good reason too. Throughout the day, fans participated in several rounds of speed quizzes onstage with the hope of winning the grand prize and establishing themselves as the #1 fan of their favourite K-pop group. Fans of the top trending groups in…
