MBC Korean Cultural Festival

A K-pop storm is brewing across the other side of the globe and is poised to unleash it’s sugary, dance-infused goodness onto the western world. South Korea has been curating an army of overstyled and plastic-faced girl and boy bands with obnoxious names like B3AST, f(x), SHINee, U-KISS and MBLAQ in the hopes of cross-over success and Saturday night saw one of their first UK invasions in the form of a ‘Korean Cultural Festival’ with headliners EXO-K (above) at the Indigo O2.


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K-Pop by 'The Slink'

Some of my friends recently modeled in a K-Pop inspired shoot for theslink.com which was styled with a few Burger & Fries accessories. So 'Fantastic Baby' that it makes me want to listen to Big Bang and 2NE1 on repeat!

creative director / Naaman Brown

photographer / Seye Isikalu

fashion / Ayishat Akanbi

hair / Angelina Bianchi

make-Up / Michelle Court

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G-Dragon & T.O.P. "highhigh" music video party

As you can see I didn't make it to Walkerhill for the Global Gathering/Autokratz party I had originally planned for my Saturday night. Instead I was lucky enough to get my hands on an invitation to a "secret" music video shooting for G-Dragon & T.O.P. of Big Bang's new single "High High" at Club Rococo in Itaewon.



I only got a few pictures in with my big camera before it was forcefully put into coat check, even though 90% of the crowd was doing the exact same thing with their various smart phones. Lame. Huge fan of the flight attendants square hair pieces and T.O.P.'s pink bullet belt slung over his shoulder. I'm undecided on his new white blonde hair but I definitely am not into G-Dragon's afro thingy. Here are a few iPhone videos of their brief but fun performance, the Boys partying with their friends and a listen to the new single played by the DJ with another look at those "square-do's":









2 of the other Big Bang boys were there and danced on stage. They seemed to have an endless amount of alcohol at their disposal - I wish. Most of the crowd they invited to this party spend too much of their paychecks on their clothes to afford the W10,000 price tag on the drinks. At least have some free beer or something, right?  Other than the performance, the best part of the night was Mongoloid dj's Kingmck & Eugene Blake's set. I was all over it when they played "Barbra Streisand" by Duck Sauce - love that track.






Is T.O.P. getting "High High" in this shot?? Naw, it's just a cigar kids.



















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m-net 20's choice awards

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