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1. Letterman seems blown away at the end. And yeah, they did give a pretty great performance.

2. They really downplayed the Aegyo (but you have to: that just won’t work in America)

3. I agree with the people who say this ISN’T Girls’ Generation’s best song.

4. The way the English lyrics to the song fit with the music, it’s pretty clear the song was written in Korean.

5. They KILLED on the dancing parts.

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Finally! People have been voting for this song for weeks, and we’re finally going to review it! Woohoo! Tablo won this week on Facebook, but the cumulative email votes that JYJ got narrowly squeaked them out as winners. Woot woot! If you haven’t seen the video yet, here it is:

If you couldn’t tell by now, we’re fans of JYJ. We’re not diehard Cassies or anything like that, but ever since Ayy Girl we’ve had a special place for JYJ in our hearts. Ayy Girl is still our favourite song and video by them, though, after all this time. We reviewed “In Heaven” a while ago, and said that we liked the video, but not the song so much (since we’re not into ballads), though as of late we found ourselves randomly singing it a lot more. “Get Out” is a lot more up our alley. Read the full story

SeoulBeats has an interesting article that got Facebook-posted and Twitter’d at me all day today:

The title is “K-pop Expansion into the West: Moving Too Fast?” It discusses the way K-pop has been facing an increased demand in different countries of the world, a topic sure to get the we’ll-repost-every-Korea-article-from-any-foreign-news-source Korea Promotion-type people all hot and bothered.

As you can see from the following four videos, K-pop has swept the entire world and every human on the planet now loves Dongbangshinki and Shinee and 2NE1 and Girls’ Generation.

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This week we review 4Minute’s “Heart to Heart” and deal with dumb boyfriends Read the full story

So with the success of “Superstar K” (which I wrote about) and the ridiculous glut of Kpop bands that, as their numbers (and surgeries) increase, are becoming more and more indistinguishable (if you can explain to me how Sistar is different from Dal Shabet, such that you couldn’t switch out their music, costumes, and choreography, and have pretty much the same product, I’ll be impressed.  Name for me all the members of Sistar, Dal Shabet, AND Rainbow, without searching, and you win a waffle iron). A few are popular enough that I can recognize them one from another, and a few have made some pretty good songs (and especially videos), and even carved out something of a personality…

But while these starlets are dominating the airwaves with dances and images that more mature and adult-oriented singers couldn’t compete with if they wanted to…

Sorry, YouTube video was taken down, so all we have is a screenshot

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This week we review 東方神起 (TVXQ’s) Before You Go and try to figure out the NDI Read the full story

By Iwazaru

Just when you thought that girl idol groups in Korea were reaching every area of the populace and setting records while doing it, we now have a new youngest group that beats the record set by members of a group called i13 (Yes, they had 13 members and three of them were 12 when they debuted in 2005) and matched by GP Basic’s Janey, who was 12 when they debuted last summer (she’s a whopping 13 now!). i13, if you care, fell off the map.

But onto our new record holders, Girl Story, whose two youngest members are 9 with the elder members of the group coming in at 10 and 11.  The group launched into the K-pop scene at the end of December with the debut song “Pinky Pinky” and are being labeled, appropriately, kid idols.  Some detractors have, amazingly, popped up, voicing discontent and disgust with such young girls entering the market when they should be doing other things like being girls.

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Last week we started our first episode of Kpop Music Mondays with Miss A’s “Bad Girl, Good Girl.” This week we review SHINee’s “Lucifer.” Read the full story

Mondays: boy, do they suck. We decided to start something new to make Mondays kinda suck less. From now on, we’re going to do Kpop Music Mondays. Every Monday we’ll review a Korean pop song, be it old or new, and give you our breakdown of it. What’s the best part, what’s the dance, how’s the English, and who’s it better than.We’ve had so many requests to do more of our How to Dance Kpop Videos that we figured we had to start doing this: by the end of the year, some of the songs in the Kpop Countdown will be a bit too old. This way, with Music Mondays, we’ll keep you up to date with what you need to know, so that at the end of the year you’ll be more ready for How to Dance Kpop 2010.

This week will be our first edition, the Sassy Edition, with Miss A’s “Bad Girl, Good Girl.” This is the first single from a new band under JYP’s management (the same guy who runs Wondergirls and 2PM). It came out a couple of months ago, and has caught on like wildfire. Before the flame burns out, we’ll tell you what you need to know about the song in the video above.

So let us know what you think. Were we off? Vote for your favorite video below, or make a request for what song you’d like to see next week!

You can see the original post at Eat Your Kimchi.