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"K-Pop Now! [...] features one hundred and twenty-eight glossy pages of Korean pop eye-candy." - KpopStarz.comK-Pop Now! takes a fun look at Korea's high-energy pop music, and is written for its growing legions of fans. It features all the famous groups and singers, and takes an insider's look at how they have made it to the top.In 2012, Psy's song and music video "Gangnam Style" suddenly took the world by storm. But K-Pop, the music of Psy's homeland of Korea has been winning fans for years with its infectious melodies and high-energy fun. Featuring incredibly attractive and talented singers and eye-popping visuals, K-Pop is the music of now.Though K-Pop is a relatively young phenomenon in the West, it is rapidly gaining traction and reaching much larger audiences - thanks in large part to social media like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.



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Mark James Russell

Mark James Russell is writer based in Seoul, South Korea. He is the author of two non-fiction books, (2009) and (2014) , and the novel Mark has lived in South Korea since 1996 (albeit with a few years off, living in Spain and elsewhere) , writing about Korean culture, economics, society, and other fun topics for such publications as the , and the . He also spent many years as Korea correspondent for and , among others. In addition, Mark spent several years developing and producing several documentaries about Korean pop culture and history. And he wrote a lot about the rest of Asia, too, from Mongolia, to Japan, to Thailand.



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