Author: Julyssa

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IU – REAL

With this album, singer IU is back to her original sound. It’s mature without being too heavy. A perfect balance of the great talent this singer has and her young age.

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Secret Garden

Secret Garden is your typical drama in where the rich boy falls in love with the working class girl. He wants her, she resists a bit and suddenly they have switched bodies. One of the better Korean dramas of the winter 2010-2011 season.

Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, The 2

Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, The

The featured movie to the extremely popular anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya let’s us in a bit deeper to some of the characters that didn’t really take place during the anime. In The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Kyon-kun must make a very difficult decision: to stay in the world he lives in or live in a world without Haruhi

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Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time tells the story of Makoto Konno, your typical, tomboy-ish high school student. One day Makoto falls in a classroom and she suddenly has the ability to travel through time as she wishes.

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Joo – Heartmade

Going back to training because she felt she was lacking, singer JOO is back with a mini-album that is a nice mix between rnb and pop.

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Korean Cinema vs. Korean Television

It’s quite clear (from the movies I’ve seen) that Korean movies are ballsy. They aren’t afraid to be graphic, they aren’t afraid to tell it as it is. They aren’t even afraid to play with taboo issues such as incest and cannibalism. So why aren’t Korean television dramas showing the same artistic freedom?

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Dream High

Six students at Kirin Art High School work to achieve their dreams of becoming stars. In between struggles and moments of joy, they find out their true selves.

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Dream High OST

The OST album from the drama Dream High proves to be as good as the drama itself. Consisting of 12 tracks, there is a mix in the album that is light and cheerful.

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Viki.com

YAM Magazine is happy to announce our collaboration with ViKi.com – an international video site for the best of world TV and movies, translated into over 150 languages by a community of avid fans.