Asian Wave that came over The West

K-pop (Korean pop) - is a genre of music that've became really popular nowdays. As the name implies K-pop comes from South Korea, it's basically pop music but it's defienietly differend from what we are accustom to. It's mostly mixture of rapping, singing and dancing. Basic facts: * In South Korea if you want to become succesfull star/singer, you have to apply for casting in an entertainment company( even if you are not nationaly korean but for example Chinese you still can participate in casting). If you passed it and signed contract, then congratulations you have become a Trainee! Becoming trainee means you will spend next few years on hard training, this includes dancing, rapping and singing lessons, on noncommon case, you will train for only a year or two but it's extremely rare. * When the training is finished you have a chance to Debut in a new group. It's common practice in Entertainment Companies , it's more profitable to debut...

On harajuku street, which is the most popular fashion shopping street in Tokyo, you can see  many people dressed in a way, we might describe as weird, but it's how harajuku subculture fashion looks like. Even though it seems like nothing can get any weirder than that, recently on Harajuku street we can see people dressed in specific way.  It's Called "Yami-kawai" which means "sick cute",  it combines soft pastel colors, animals, anime characters and combines these with guns, syringes, bandages, pills and so on. Phrases about suicide and death are also popular for yami-kawaii aesthetics, often seen in art or fashion. Japan has reletively higher suicide rate than other countries. On  average 70 Japanese people commits suicide every day. However this subject is avoided by everyone in japan, it's basically tabu that no-one  wants to talk about. Example of Yami-Kawaii Fashion The most famous icon of yami-kawaii is  Me...