Guess the Kpopalypse 2016 end-of-year lists!

For those of you who give a flying fuck, click the Raina to do the Kpopalypse "guess the end-of-year lists" survey!

Note that this is only a survey about the Kpopalypse end-of-year lists, not AKF as a whole.  Have fun!

Results of the Kpopalypse 2016 survey of important trufax!

I'm not going to repost the whole thing here because it's fucking huge and would take me forever, but if anyone is interested in the results of the latest Kpopalypse survey that I put out about a week ago, click the picture of Jiyeon to check them out!  Or if not, then just fap to the picture I guess.  Like, whatever.

Guess the 2015 end-of-year best/worst list – survey responses!

Hi everyone, a while ago I did a survey and asked all you nice folks about what you thought I'd pick for my best/worst lists.  Many of you responded, and now that the official lists are out the results can now be published!

I'm not going to repost the fucking results here because I'm too lazy it's full of data tables and crap that are just too hard to recode for this site without breaking everything (mainly my nuts) so instead if you give a shit click the picture of Yooa above to go to the survey results!  Or if you don't care less, just fap!

The Kpopalypse 2015 end of year caonima activity survey results!

Not going to post it again here because the post is freaking huge and I cbf editing it all twice, plus I don't want to create confusion by people thinking that my survey represents the entirety of AKF instead of just my own writing (and yes people still get confused by that!) but if you participated in the most recent Kpopalypse survey and you're curious you can click here for the results!

Or, if you don't give a flying shit, enjoy this video of Eunsol for no reason.

Kpopalypse 2015 survey of important trufax – the results!

The results are in for the Kpopalypse 2015 survey of important trufax!

Because I'm way too lazy to re-edit the absolutely massive ginormous results post that took me hours for this blog (which would take another half a day), click here to be taken to the post with all the results! 

Kpopalypse 2014 end of year mega survey - the results!

This summary is not available. Please click here to view the post.

Like money - k-pop music video production costs explained

In k-pop the music video is often as important as the song.  I'd even go out on a not-very-dangerous limb and say it's a lot more important than the song in most cases, and for a bunch of different reasons, ranging from building a brand, to building interest in the performers, to product placement, to connecting to global audiences and more.  K-pop is at least as much of a visual phenomenon as it is an auditory one, this much is obvious.  What's a little less obvious to a lot of people is how much money and effort is involved, so that's what this post is going to discuss... hopefully in a way that doesn't bore you to shit.

What makes a music video "cheap" or "expensive"?  How do I tell which is which?  Attentive readers will note that one of my recent Nugu Alert posts touched on the topic of video expenses.  However I didn't go into a lot of detail in that post, and I've been getting requests to write something more in-depth about music video costs ever since, so here we go.