– I wrote a little article about some Korean bands playing in London and North America in the coming months over at the Korean Contents website. 3rd Line Butterfly and W&Whale have been invited to Monocle Magazine’s Winter Series (I will supply the iTunes link when it is available). And then Vidulgi Ooyoo, Galaxy Express and Idiotape are going to be traveling to SXSW and the Canada Music Week in March (and maybe make a few more stops around the continent).

– Shawn Despres has yet another good article about Korean indie music, this one about the band Sunkyeol, over at Groove magazine.

– And as long as I am linking to Shawn, I really should mention his recent article about Chang Kiha & Faces and the Rocktigers in the Japan Times.

– The Joongang Daily has a fairly long article about the Hongdae scene (translated from the parent publication, the Sunday Joongang). It has a few quotes from a lot of the biggest names in Hongdae (Sung Kiwan, Lee Sang-eun, Lim Jin-mo) and is a decent introduction … although it does not talk about the publishing side of Hongdae, which in many ways was the foundation of the neighborhood, back in the early 1980s.

– And, of course, if you are interesting in learning more about Korean indie music, Anna’s blog Indieful ROK is the best place to learn about new releases and pretty much everything about the scene.