(Photo : TWICE)
TWICE, deemed as Asia s No. 1 Girl Group, revealed how learning foreign languages is significant to become a K-pop idol. Nayeon even confessed she couldn t debut until she gets a certificate.
On March 14, the SBS documentary Legendary Stage-Archive K featured the top-tier and K-pop key players to reach the top of the world s music market today, including Psy, J.Y. Park, Super Junior, BTS, BLACKPINK, and TWICE.
In the first half of the documentary, the multinational girl group TWICE appeared and unveiled interesting behind-the-scenes stories about their debut.
TWICE Worked Hard to Learn Foreign Languages Prior to their Debut as a Global Group
On March 13, their agency YG Entertainment announced that BLACKPINK s How You Like That choreography video exceeded 600 million views on YouTube at 12:50 p.m. on March 13. It s been 250 days since its release on July 6 last year.
BLACKPINK s How You Like That choreography video reached 100 million views in 15 days, 200 million views in 45 days, 300 million views in 76 days, 400 million views in 120 days, and 500 million views in 183 days. The 600 million views also showed a steady upward trend. How You Like That, which has impressive beats, is a song that contains a message to soar high without succumbing to any situation. At the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards in the U.S., the girl group won Song of the Summer through the track and was selected as the No. 1 Global Top Summer Song by YouTube.
(Photo : Weeekly,aespa,StayC,PURPLE K!SS)
aespa, StayC, Weeekly, and Purple Kiss are drawing attention as this year s leading girl groups, as the fourth-gen K-pop era finally began.
After debuting last year, these K-pop girl groups showed strong popularity both domestically and internationally. On March 12, the Korean media outlet Seoul Economy wrote an article commemorating the beginning of K-pop s fourth generation era, as well as those girl groups who are heralding to showcase new trends.
K-pop Official Announces Start of K-pop fourth generation era + Girl groups who are Drawing Attention this 2021
In particular, a K-pop official via the media said,
(Photo : BIGBANG Daesung )
Recently, it was confirmed that BIGBANG Daesung is the person behind anonymous YouTuber D splay, but Daesung didn t waver and plans to stick with his concept no matter what.
On March 12, YouTube Channel, D splay, which was revealed to be BIGBANG s Daesung personal YouTube channel, released his official statement after the news through a new video.
Aside from funnily denying that he s a K-pop group member, the idol also conveyed his grateful heart to the fans and netizens who are showing great interest in his YouTube channel.
BIGBANG Daesung Played an Interview Skit as KDS Reporter and YouTuber D splay
My mom couldn t eat well at the end, but I made Retorted seaweed soup for her birthday. But I think he probably ate it because his son made it for him even though it s painful. He went on by saying that his hardships and happiness intersected.
Soo Mi comforted him then by praising him how his hardships became a driving force for him to succeed.
In response, Rain said, I felt all the hardships of the world when my mother died. At that time, I didn t have money, so I couldn t give my mother a proper funeral, and I couldn t take care of my younger brother s meal. But amidst everything, he used it as motivation to become the Rain he is now.