KPop

“I have your man,” I typed at 1 a.m., my hands trembling with excitement. “Do you have Joshua on hand to trade?”Joshua Hong’s 13-member K-pop band, Seventeen, released a new album on May 26. That album comes with serious math for trading card aficionados. There are seven versions of the…

It’s the new K-pop concert starter kit: a T-shirt emblazoned with your favorite singer’s name, a band light stick, and a rented Samsung phone with a razor-sharp zoom.K-pop fans clamoring for a picture of their favorite singers have carved out a niche market within the South Korean tech industry, with…