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• 2PM
• Gamblerz
• Maximum Crew
• Tallae Music Band
• Kpop history articles (for reference in the Kpop article)
• Gackt
• The Gazette
• NoGoD

• #1 = NoGoD
• Clean up GG Pique. Too many self-references.
• Expand upon the LSM article. Add in Time Magazine reference - http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/1101020729/money.html
• Expand upon the Kpop article with references:

• http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/1101020729/story.html
• http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/6/8/4/5/p168459_index.html
• http://books.google.com/books?id=YG2AFyFppJQC&pg=PA971&dq=%22korean+pop+music%22&lr=#PPA971,M1

"From the period of Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945) until modern times, Korean pop music has been closely associated with movies. Modern Korean popular music first appeared in the 1930s, heavily influenced by Japanese popular songs. Many Japanese favored the vocal quality of Korean singers, but since Japan required the colonial administration in Korea to restrict all forms of artistic expression, Koreans had little opportunity to create ther own modern genre. In the 1950s and 1960s, the musical performances organized by U.S. forces in and around the American military bases in South Korea provided Koreans with another example of modern music, and soon many bands emerged that modeled themselves after popular Western groups.

The Korean pop music scene soon had three genres: Westernized boy or girl bands whose appeal lay mostly in their appearance; a technically difficult, older genre that had its roots in the colonial period and was popular with older Koreans; and the often amateur tiong kitia (acoustic guitar) singer-songwriters, who became popular in the 1960s and sang about individual experiences and hardships in a simple vocal style. In the early 1990s, a fourth style emerged, developed by Korea's most influential popstar of the period, Seo Taiji (born 1972). He created a uniquely Korean style of hip-hop that uses urban Korean lyrics mixed with heavy grooves. Sales of Japanese pop music steadily increased when their import was finally allowed in 1999, but Japanese music is less popular than the so-called Korean Wave, or hallyu, of popular culture that has swept across eastern Asia since the late 1990s. Among the reasons given for the popularity of Korea pop abroad is the (often surgically enhanced) physical attractiveness of the performers. - R. Maliangkay" World and Its Peoples: Eastern and Southern Asia. By Marshall Cavendish Corporation. Published by Marshall Cavendish, 2007. ISBN 0761476318, 9780761476313

• find book - Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave. Keith Howard (Editor). found.

Library Location: Cox Library of Music (Lincoln Hall)

Call Number: ML3502.K6 K67 2006

Status: On Hold

• Expand trot page -

• http://www.worldmusic.or.kr/intro/kswmactivity/journal/article/article7/noyh_article7.htm (cached http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:9NlVZBeF0FYJ:www.worldmusic.or.kr/intro/kswmactivity/journal/article/article7/noyh_article7.htm+%22New+themes+and+the+re-creation+of+Trot%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us)
• http://english.seoul.go.kr/today/infocus/column/1230630_5097.php (cached http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:hpWVkDCSsUoJ:english.seoul.go.kr/today/infocus/column/1230630_5097.php+%22With+the+coming+of+the+Japanese+imperialists,+however,+another+form+of+pseudo-Western+music+would+develop+%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us)

With the coming of the Japanese, another form of pseudo-Western music would develop, namely, "trot" (short for "foxtrot"). Trot music bears a striking similarity to and was highly influenced by Japanese enka music, a melodramatic form of singing that combined Japanese scales with Western harmonies. Up until the 1930s, trot and pansori (the latter still actively recorded by Japanese music companies) held sway over the Korean music-buying public, but the ideology of modernization was too much for pansori to withstand.

By the 1980s, the Korean music scene was overwhelmingly Western. Korean artists were finding inspiration not in the music of their ancestors, but rather in the music of the West, particular the United States and Japan. Trot music held sway over much of the public, with American pop music and American-style folk music enjoying a wide following. Korean traditional music, it seemed, had shared the fate of much of the rest of traditional Korea - it had ceased, for all intents and purposes, to be a living part of Korea's cultural being.

• Expand J-rock artists' pages.

1 - organize biography into something coherent

2 - expand upon history. find sources.

3 - needs history

4 - also needs history

5 - write biography/history

6 - organize the GacktJOB, Spiky, Dizzy Drive and マァマァサ☆ムゥ paragraphs into separate subsections under history. grammar.

7 - clean up history!

8 - wikify. and history.

9 - trivial information

10 - history

11 - biography, history

12 - 2006 and 2007

• Find and add references to the TVXQ single and album pages
• w-inds article cleanup.
• Add to Category:Japanese rock musicians
• Add a note to the kimisuki page.
• Add in ayu's stuff - http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/ayumi_hamasaki/cover.html
• Add http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2898224 to TVXQ page
  • cached http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:c00a27WHSWAJ:joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp%3Faid%3D2898224+%22This+agency+has+recently+come+under+fire+for+its+broadcast+ban+on+recent+releases+by+Rain+and+Dong+Bang+Shin+Gi.%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us
• Find original article to add to TVXQ page -

DBSG "We are not adding a team member or switching one..."

On the 19th, DBSG released a 3rd storybook that caused a lot of chaos. The fans read a story about 'DBSG member change' in the storybook and complained that it was true but that scandal was confirmed to be false.

DBSG's company SM Entertainment said "DBSG who is composed of 5 members, YoungWoong, ChoiKang, Xiah, Micky and Yunho are not going to break up. We are not going to add members or switch members now or in the future. DBSG is going to be the same as now."

'DBSG member change' scandal started in Fan cafe due to DBSG's storybook's topic. Fans read the story and thought it was possible for a member change. Cassopeia fanclub and other dbsg fans in different internet fancafes and sites argued whether this scandal was true or not, having the storybook story as proof and in the end decided that the scandal was true.

The story had 2 assumptions. First 6 members of one team were gonna be added to the 5 present dbsg members and create new dbsg group. 2nd, "It is possible that we are going to join our friends that are training right now (HyukJae, Sungmin, Hweechul, JongYoon, Kibum and ShiWon) and perform together." These assumptions were the cause of this scandal.

Regarding this scandal SM Hwang SungYook said "The team that is training now has nothing to do with DBSG. They are another team thats going to debut with a new name around next year." Another rumor in the storybook is that when DBSG performs in China or other countries, they will add a member from that certain country.

The fans said "When DBSG performs all over asia, for example China, they are going to add a chinese member."

SM said "When DBSG performs in China or the US, we were just thinking on how it would be if we called one member from that certain country to perform with them. But we never actually planned it out. We hope the fans won't take this seriously."

The fanclub hasn't recieved SM's official notice so they still think all of this is true. SM entertainment is trying to find a way to solve this issue.

Fans are already supporting dbsg by saying "DBSG is only 5 members" and have created a site for them (http://www.only5tvxq.com). in this site lots of fans are saying to boycott whatever SM plans to do.

credits to: asianmusicnetwork