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and recall literally crying as the concert began. I finally had the chance to live my K-Pop dream of seeing my K-Pop idols in concert performing in person right before my very eyes, it was truly a dream come true. The concert lineup featured popular K-Pop groups such as Kara, MBLAQ, Sistar, f(x), Beast, Girls’ Generation, Wonder Girls, Super Junior, and TVXQ (Sylphid “Concert Review”, par 1-2). After the concert my love for the genre only grew and one day I only hope to attend yet again another K-Pop concert. HISTORY: S.M. Entertainment, a leader in the globalization of K-Pop and the Korean Hallyu Wave, has successfully pioneered the genre into what it is today, a global phenomenon. S.M. Entertainment also known as SMTOWN or simply S.M. was founded by Lee Soo Man, a former singer turned businessman, in 1995. Lee has since stepped down from being CEO in 2010, but is it active in the company and is the largest shareholder with a 21.3% stake. S.M. Entertainment has produced K-Pop’s top groups of the industry such as boy group H.O.T. in 1996, girl group S.E.S. in 1996, which both eventually disbanded. By 1998, the agency produced the popular six-member boy group Shinhwa who left the agency in 2003 but are still active in the K-Pop industry under their own company, Shinhwa Company. By 1999, S.M. had produced the R&B duo, Fly to the Sky, who also left the agency in 2004 but are still active within the K-Pop industry (Jung, par. 1-3; Seabrook, par. 32-37; Salmon, par. 1-12). By the…

The idols don’t play instruments, but rather perform by singing and dancing. The common roles in each pop group consists of the leader who is usually the eldest in the group, the maknae who is the youngest, the rapper, the vocalist, and the visual who is considered to be the most good-looking in the group. There are also foreigners, or non-Korean members, in K-pop groups to promote transnationalism and gain a larger fanbase. Originating from the first wave of Korean idol pop from the late 1990s…

Formal Essay Number 1 In Veronica Stafford’s essay “Texting and Literacy” (found on page 115 in the textbook) she discusses how she thinks texting has doomed the future. She has noticed that at her school many of the students do not pay attention to each other as they walk down the halls between classes; instead of looking at everyone, and where they are going, they are texting. According to Ms. Stafford it is texting that causes students to be stupid and to get bad grades. However this is…

Ending Distracted Driving As more people, especially young people, feel the need to constantly feel connected, entertained, and busy, injuries and fatalities caused by distracted driving have gone from bad to worse. The biggest worry is in novice, not necessarily young, drivers who don’t have the experience and maturity to react to sudden situations while driving. When you add a text message or changing the radio the sudden situation becomes deadly. Nearly 4000 drivers were involved in a fatal…

Sadly in today’s economy everywhere you look you will see texting, the dominance of the human soul, but nevertheless have people noticed the influence it has on our literacy and social interactions as teenagers. Texting shortens and simplifies the English language while it degrades it as well. It is also a big distraction that makes people become irresponsible and lazy. The article “ Texting Gone Wrong” by Turake is ineffective because it gives evidence but it mostly lacks support for the…

Cell phones have become such a staple piece in our culture in recent years that the act of text messaging during class is an occurrence that most students would be accustomed to. During the past few years, I have witnessed countless students typing out and sending text messages in the middle of a class. Although it seems like common sense that text messaging during class would have a more negative effect on grade rather than a positive one, I was interested to see if there was empirical evidence…

I started “Change the Channel” on August 25th and it ended on August 27th. I stopped texting some of my friends and family members and started calling them more while the rest of my friends and family I stared texting more. My experience was very interesting and some of the outcomes that occurred I didn’t really expect. I was so use to calling certain people and texting certain people that I feel like this experience affected my life in a good way. When my friends need help I am always the…

Is Texting Harmful Many people are unaware that according to a 2010 survey 75 percent of teens are now texting, which is nearly a 51 percent increase since the year 2006. (Teen) It is believed that texting too much as well as tweeting up to 100 and more times daily can cause people to be shallow, obsessed with accessories, and have low self-esteem issues. Teens that text over 100 times daily have the tendency to be image obsessed and driven by wealth. Although some of these teens may be…

One text,one second,one quick glance at the screen is all it takes for someone to get severely hurt and even killed. I know texting and driving is dangerous and most people would agree that it 's dangerous but everytime I glance to the car next to me they always seem to have a phone in their hand. Myself along with people that I have talked to would never drive drunk but won 't hesitate to pick up their phone when that text message ring goes off but according to AAA. “Text messaging while…

As a child, you never think what would happen if the time you spent with someone would be your last moments with them. When you said goodbye to that person, it was not supposed to be a permanent goodbye, but more like an “I will see you later.” Growing up as a child, I never thought about death or losing someone I cared about deeply. I thought that I would have that person in my life forever. Even as I got older I did not think much about death because it was hard to think about telling someone…