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Park Ji-yoon
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Park Ji-yoon on SNL Korea

Monday, July 28, 2014 Chris Charles 0

If you’ve seen the 2008 US Saturday Night Live skit with Beyoncé, that spoofs the making of her “Single Ladies” music video, then the March 2014 SNL Korea ripoff, with singer Park Ji-yoon and her 2000 “Coming-of-Age Ceremony” (aka “Adult

Hye-kyoung Lee
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Hye-kyoung Lee

Friday, February 7, 2014 Chris Charles 2

Choreographer and dance instructor Hye-kyoung Lee doesn’t look old enough to have played a company secretary over 20 years ago, but that small role on a then-popular Korean TV drama was her acting debut. Four years after that, she began

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Tristan Risk
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Tristan Risk

Wednesday, July 17, 2013 Chris Charles 5

I‘ll admit, I’d never heard of Tristan Risk until I saw the movie American Mary, in which she played Beatress Johnson (yes, “Beatress,” not “Beatrice”), a stripper who had 14 surgeries to become a real-life Betty Boop look-alike.

Calamity Chang
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Calamity Chang

Saturday, July 13, 2013 Chris Charles 1

When American burlesque was in its heyday, Asian striptease performers were practically unheard of. However, with the emergence of “neo-burlesque” in the mid-1990s, a few Asian ladies have taken to the stage, doing the retro “bump ‘n grind” acts. One

Waveya
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Korean Dance Team Waveya

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Chris Charles 1

Most Korean female vocal groups work with choreographers to develop dance routines they perform to their songs that they’ve recorded in the studio. However, it’s no secret that when on stage, they usually lip-sync so they can focus more on

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Stella Chuu

Thursday, April 4, 2013 Chris Charles 1

Above is the “Anime Princess of Burlesque” Stella Chuu, performing her act entitled “The Darkest Corners of the Internet,” which is her homage to the infamous website 4chan.org and the notorious Internet meme it popularized; “Pedobear.” The opening song is