Hyori’s 10 Minutes was the last article I wrote before I shut down my old website, konton, and in many ways it was a fitting end. Though konton started out as a mish-mash pop culture site, for better or worse, it ended being known for Asian pop. Even though there were signs of it before, 10 Minutes was the final death knell for the golden age of Korean girl groups. SES had split. Baby VOX were pretty much over. Hyori’s star power couldn’t be contained in Fin.K.L. anymore. And there just weren’t any groups around with the charm, wit, and fiyah to replace the old stalwarts. Truly a sad time period… for me at least.

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I’ve been toying around with the look of popho and cleaning up a bunch of unnecessary code that’ll make this place run smoother. I know I’ve been neglecting this site the past year and haven’t done much to it, but hopefully things will change. Hopefully…

At any rate, I just threw up this old review to test out some coding. This particular post was written around 2004 I think. I’m actually kind of ashamed of this one because it had the potential to be somewhat decent.

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