Festival Showdown
So, who attended one (or both) of the big rock festivals last weekend? Loved it? Disappointed? Feel free to add your comments about the shows below. UPDATE: People have been uploading clips from the...
View ArticleRun for the Roses — G’N'R in Korea
By Mark Guns N’ Roses had their big concert in Korea last week. I thought I would post the comments sent to me about the show by a friend. They are short, but pretty fun, imho. Enjoy: … went to see...
View ArticlePentaport Rundown
By Mark So last weekend was the Pentaport Rock Festival, held over in Incheon. I thought I would write up my impressions. But feel free to add you own, if you went and if you want. Actually, the only...
View ArticlePeace in DMZ Goes to Pieces
By Mark To nobody’s surprise, it seems there will be no Peace in the DMZ concert next weekend. The only thing I find surprising is that it took the organizers so long to announce what everyone had long...
View ArticleWhat Does a Pumpkin Turn Into After Midnight?
By Mark A review from the Klone Wars blog of the Smashing Pumpkins’ show from last Saturday night. Sounds like it was a bit of a mixed bag (considering the post is titled “Kind of Smashing Pumpkins”).
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Scatterbrain’s Summer Festival Awards
By Mark Scatterbrain, one of Korea’s best indie music websites, is running an online survey to determine the top acts and festivals of the summer. All the questions are in Korean and English, and...
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KGG Staff 2010 Live Faves
By Shawn Despres We at Korea Gig Guide are obviously big fans of live music and do our best to get out to as many shows as we possibly can. Although we all saw many great performances over the last...
View ArticleKorean Bands in North America — So Far, So Good
By Mark So I guess our friends who are playing North America at the moment are all about halfway done their tours. And we are starting to get a little press on them. At Canadian Music Week in Toronto,...
View ArticleJisan Done, On With the Next Festivals
By Mark Sadly, I could not attend this year, but it sounds like the Jisan Valley Rock Festival was pretty good this year. Yonhap is reporting the festival had 84,000 people there over its three days,...
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KGG Staff 2012 Live Faves
This is being posted a bit later than usual, but here’s Korea Gig Guide’s annual “Staff Live Faves” list sharing the 10 shows from the past year that we each enjoyed the most. If anyone is interested,...
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Rocking Apgujeong
Hello, Korea Gig Guide readers. It’s been a heck of a long time since I posted here. But it is definitely good to be back. I started the KGG way back in early 2008, but after moving to Europe, I...
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Korean Festivals, Then and Now
On Sunday, I spent the day at the City Break rock festival (or “CITYBREAK,” as the organizers prefer to write it), from just after the gates opened at 11am until … well, not that late. I stayed until...
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Review of the 2014 Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival
On August 2, I headed out to Penta Park in Songdo, Incheon, to see day two of the ninth annual Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival. Having been to Pentaport at both of its previous locations, I was keen to...
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