Overall, Korean pop serves as the foundation of my musical upbringing. As a result, the melodies that I create just exude that type of vibe.
As a rapper, I was heavily influenced by American rap albums. But for songs that are more melody-driven, I get my inspiration from Korean albums.
We're 2NE1, and we're from Korea. We're this girl band with great music.
Back in Korea, I'm always in the studio with YG people. I'd be given a song, and I'd cut it.
If you're not fascinated by Korea yet, you damn well should be. The most innovative country on earth deserves a hilarious and poignant account on the order of Euny Hong's The Birth of Korean Cool. Her phat beats got Gangnam Style and then some.
I really like BTS' stuff.
I'm active on social media because that's such a big reason why K-pop and Korean music performs the way it does.
If a Korean artist reaches to the top, we're all ready to stand up and applaud for him or her.
BIGBANG is the band that i myself am a big fan of
I will bring more Korean dance moves and Korean songs overseas.
There's a lot of variety of musicians in Korea. I cannot say they are the best in the world, but I can say that Korean artists are really dynamic artists, so I am going to show that from now on.
When I first debuted back in 2009, K-Pop was already starting to get bigger because of the Internet. And that's how I found it, because I'm not Korean.
The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.
We are Korean, so obviously they call our music K-pop. But we never thought of our music as K-pop. Our music is just our music.
When I first toured North America, everyone was saying that it was working because there is such as a solid Korean fan base here. The truth is, that is less than five per cent of the audience, which is mixed of all backgrounds.
Korean audiences are amazing, they really love the music.
I was fascinated by the powerful yet precise dance performances of K-pop. I loved Rain and 2NE1.
I want to help promote Korean music around the world.
Thanks to many great K-pop singers, the groundwork has been laid for more Korean songs to be readily accessible to an overseas audience via channels like YouTube.
I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.
In Korea, I'm not a K-pop artist, I'm just an artist.
I hope the entire Korean culture like films can be enjoyed by many others.
I love 'BigBang'; I'm a huge 'BigBang' fan. I like G-Dragon, TOP, Taeyang, all the guys.
I am glad to see K-pop really pop off and it's cool to see how it's become an international craze.
I like lots of Korean music that most people have probably never heard of. I also enjoy hip hop.
