Aespa's Synk Road
''Aespa's Synk Road'' (; stylized as ''aespa's Synk Road'') is a South Korean reality web series starring Aespa. Produced by SM C&C Studio and directed by Jin Sun-mi, the reality show was broadcast on Wavve on December 28, 2022, and was shown every Wednesday. It is a variety travel show where the members complete missions to acquire "ae-key" cards hidden along their travel route, featuring activities like teamwork and secret missions and showcasing their adventures over three days and two nights. Production and synopsis On November 25, 2022, it was reported that Aespa would have their first reality show along with the release of a concept poster that shows the members against the backdrop of a road and a key. In addition, a poster of them enjoying car camping against the backdrop of the night sky full of stars has been released. The reality web series was produced by SM C&C Studio and was directed by Jin Sun-mi. SM C&C stated that the group will have their first solo reality s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Reality Television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring ordinary people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 1990s with shows such as ''The Real World (TV series), The Real World'', then achieved prominence in the early 2000s with the success of the series ''Survivor (franchise), Survivor'', ''Idol (franchise), Idol'', and ''Big Brother (franchise), Big Brother'', all of which became global Franchising, franchises. Reality television shows tend to be interspersed with "confessionals", short interview segments in which cast members reflect on or provide context for the events being depicted on-screen; this is most commonly seen in American reality television. Competition-based reality shows typically feature the gradual elimination of participants, either by a panel of judges, by the viewership of the show, or by the contestants themselves. Documentary ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mukbang
A mukbang ( , ; ; ; ) is an online audiovisual broadcast in which a host consumes various quantities of food (generally from easily accessible and popular fast-food restaurant chains) while interacting with the audience or reviewing it. The genre became popular in South Korea in the early 2010s, and has become a global trend since the mid-2010s. Varieties of foods ranging from pizza to noodles are consumed in front of a camera. The purpose of mukbang is also sometimes educational, introducing viewers to regional specialties or gourmet spots. A mukbang may be either prerecorded or streamed live through a webcast on multiple Streaming media, streaming platforms such as AfreecaTV, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitch (service), Twitch. In live sessions, the mukbang host chats with the audience while the audience types in real time in the live chat-room. Eating shows are expanding their influence on internet broadcasting platforms and serve as virtual communities and as venues fo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Television Series By SM C&C
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. The medium is capable of more than "radio broadcasting", which refers to an audio signal sent to radio receivers. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was intro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ... and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets () and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bongpyeong-myeon
Bongpyeong-myeon () is a myeon (township) in the county of Pyeongchang in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea. The myeon is located in northwestern part of the county. The total area of Bongpyeong-myeon is 217.41 square kilometers, and, as of 2008, the population was 5,545 people. The town is the setting of the '' When Buckwheat Flowers Bloom'' (1936) short story by Lee Hyo-seok, and its buckwheat fields are considered to be a major tourist attraction. Attractions * Bogwang Phoenix Park: venue of 2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics (), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (; ) and also known as PyeongChang 2018 (), were an international winter multi-sport event held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang County, South Ko ... * Mount Taegisan * Phoenix Park: It offers an extensive selection, as well as ski and snowboard instruction for beginner skiers References Pyeongchang County Towns and townships in Gangwon Province, So ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ningning (singer)
Ning Yizhuo (; born October 23, 2002), known professionally as Ningning, is a Chinese singer based in South Korea. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Aespa. Career Early life and pre-debut Ningning was born as Ning Yizhuo on October 23, 2002, in Harbin, China. She graduated from Harbin Normal University Middle School () and Beijing Contemporary Music Academy (). During her early years, she was nicknamed "Ningning", which she would later use as her stage name in her career. Ningning was scouted by SM Entertainment following her appearance on the Chinese singing TV show ''Let's Sing Kids''. She was later introduced as a member of the pre-debut training team SM Rookies on September 19, 2016. As part of the team, she appeared on the ''Rookies Princess: Who's the Best?'' segment of the program ''My SMT'' that year, and recorded several covers for the Korean animated TV program ''Shining Star'' in 2017. 2020–present: Debut and solo activities After training for 4 yea ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Giselle (singer)
, known professionally as Giselle, is a Japanese singer and rapper based in South Korea. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Aespa, formed by SM Entertainment in November 2020. Early life Giselle was born Aeri Uchinaga in Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea, to a South Korean mother and a Japanese father, and grew up in Tokyo, Japan. She is fluent in Japanese, Korean, and English. She attended Tokyo International School. For high school, Giselle attended International School of the Sacred Heart, where she was introduced to K-pop in her sophomore year of high school. In addition, she went to the same school as Rima from the girl group NiziU. She later returned to Korea after graduation to audition for SM Entertainment and passed the company's Saturday auditions after 4 attempts. She adopted the stage name Giselle after receiving it from a senior at the company who helped train her. Career 2020–present: Debut in Aespa and solo activities After 11 months of tra ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Winter (singer)
Kim Min-jeong (; born January 1, 2001), known professionally as Winter (), is a South Korean singer and dancer. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Aespa which debuted under SM Entertainment in November 2020. In January 2022, she became a member of the supergroup Got the Beat. Early life Kim Min-jeong was born on January 1, 2001, in Nampo-dong, Busan, South Korea. Growing up in a family with several members in the armed forces (including her father, older brother, and other relatives), she originally considered a career in this field. Winter went to Yangsan Samsung Middle School and learned to play multiple instruments, such as piano and guitar and played various sports such as bowling, kendo, fencing, basketball, and badminton. She was also in the school's dance club. She attended Yangsan Girls' High School until she was discovered by an SM talent scout while performing at a dance festival at her school in 2016. Prior to being scouted, she had never shared her asp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Karina (South Korean Singer)
Yu Ji-min (; born April 11, 2000), known professionally as Karina, is a South Korean singer and rapper. She is the leader of the South Korean girl group Aespa, formed by SM Entertainment on November 17, 2020. She is also a member of the supergroup Got the Beat, which debuted on January 3, 2022. In 2024, Karina achieved her first top-ten song as a solo artist on the Circle Digital Chart, as well as her first-ever solo music show award from '' Show! Music Core'', with " Up" from Aespa's digital single album '' Synk: Parallel Line''. Early life and education Karina was born and raised in Suwon, South Korea, in a family consisting of her parents and an older sister. She attended Hansol High School, located in Bundang, until she was discovered by an SM Entertainment representative through social media and trained for 4 years before her debut. She then dropped out to focus on training and later obtained a GED equivalent certificate. Karina is Catholic and stated that her baptism ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shindong
Shin Dong-hee (; born September 28, 1985), known professionally as Shindong (lit. meaning: "prodigy"), is a South Korean rapper, singer, dancer, host, radio personality, and video director. He is best known as a member of Super Junior and its subgroups Super Junior-T, Super Junior-H, and Super Junior-L.S.S. Career Pre-debut Shin Dong-hee was born in Suwon, Gyeonggi-do on September 28, 1985. Little is known about Shindong's personal life, and many thought he was an only child. He has a younger sister named Ahn Da Young. With a love for dancing, Shindong signed up for the 2002 Goyangsi Youth Dance contest and won grand prize. A year later, he joined the contest again and won gold. In 2004, Shindong joined the Mnet Epi Contest and won both the gold prize and popularity award. In 2005, Shindong signed up for the ''SM Best Youth Contest'' and won first place for Best Comedian, achieving the grand prize. He signed a contract with SM Entertainment and received lessons to further im ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Super Junior
Super Junior (; stylized in all caps), also known as SJ or SuJu, is a South Korean boy band. The group is composed of Leeteuk, Heechul, Yesung, Shindong, Sungmin, Eunhyuk, Siwon, Donghae, Ryeowook, and Kyuhyun. Han Geng, Kibum, and Kangin were originally part of the group before departing in 2011, 2015 and 2019, respectively. The group was formed by the founder of SM Entertainment, Lee Soo-man in 2005 as a 12-piece group with rotational members but the concept was abandoned after the addition of Kyuhyun in 2006. They are also dubbed by the media as the "King of Hallyu Wave" due to their contributions in Korean Wave. Super Junior launched into international recognition following the release of their best-selling single " Sorry, Sorry" in 2009, the title song of their most critically successful album, '' Sorry, Sorry''. Over the years, they have been divided into smaller groups, simultaneously targeting different music industries and audiences. The members have also i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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NewsPim
NewsPim () or Newspim is a news and media company founded in April, 2003. The company has two economic newspapers, NewsPim and Anda, the latter of which was first published in July 2016. Its director is Byeongbok Min (민병복). The company is one of the news sources for Factiva, and has signed a strategic alliance deal with Koscom.코스콤-뉴스핌, 전략적 제휴 체결, 디지털데일리, 2006.04.03, http://www.ddaily.co.kr/news/article.html?no=9215 See also * List of newspapers in South Korea This is a list of newspapers in South Korea. National papers Top 10 Comprehensive Daily newspapers *The Chosun Ilbo (daily) 1,212,208 *The Dong-A Ilbo (daily) 925,919 *JoongAng Ilbo (daily) 861,984 *''Hankook Ilbo'' (daily) 219,672 *''Hanky ... References Korean-language newspapers Newspapers published in Seoul Newspaper companies of South Korea Newspapers established in 2003 {{SouthKorea-company-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |