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F(x) (band)
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F is a South Korea-based girl group formed by S. M. Since their debut, f has released four albums, two extended plays, and one repackaged album. The group is composed of four members, Victoria, Luna, Amber. F has been recognised for their style and eclectic, electropop-based sound. They are one of the few recognized K-pop groups internationally, becoming the first K-pop act to perform at SXSW and their acclaimed second album, Pink Tape, was the only K-pop album on US music channel Fuses 41 Best Albums of 2013. Entertainment in 2000 while on a visit to Korea, along with her sister Jessica. She subsequently appeared in a role in Shinhwas music video for the song Wedding March. Sulli was an actress, making her first television appearance in 2005 as the young Princess Seonhwa of Silla in SBSs Ballad of Seodong. Entertainment following her 2006 appearance on the reality television program Truth Game, Victoria was scouted through a Beijing dance competition in September 2007 after winning first place. In 2008, Amber was cast through S. M, Global Auditions in Los Angeles, California. F was first introduced as a five-member dance-focused pop group in a teaser released on August 24,2009. Their debut single LA chA TA was released on September 1, the groups broadcast debut was on September 5, on MBCs Music Core. Shortly after their debut, f featured in promotions of the LG Chocolate cell phone alongside Girls Generation, both groups released versions of the song Chocolate Love, fs being an electropop version released on October 8. They also released their first physical single, Chu~♡, on November 9, a month later, the group appeared as special guests at Girls Generations Into The New World concert at the Olympic Fencing Gymnasium, Seoul. At the start of 2010, f collaborated with the Chinese boy band M. I. C. to promote the LG Cyon cell phone, in April they appeared in their documentary reality programme, Hello f. On May 4, the released their first extended play. The lead single Nu ABO was a success in Korea. In June, Amber went on due to an ankle injury
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Recording studio
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A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are designed by an acoustician or audio engineer to achieve optimum acoustic properties. The engineers and producers listen to the music and the recorded tracks on monitor speakers and/or headphones. Major recording studios typically have a range of large, heavy, Isolation booths are small sound-insulated rooms with doors, designed for instrumentalists. This equipment may interfere with the recording process, Recording studios are carefully designed around the principles of room acoustics to create a set of spaces with the acoustical properties required for recording sound with precision and accuracy. This will consist of both room treatment and soundproofing to prevent sound from leaving the property. Even though sound isolation is a key goal, the musicians, singers, audio engineers and record producers still need to be able to see other, to see cue gestures. As such, the room, isolation booths, vocal booths. Some smaller studios do not have instruments, and bands and artists are expected to bring their own instruments, having musical instruments and equipment in the studio creates additional costs for a studio, as pianos have to be tuned and instruments need to be maintained. However, it makes it convenient for recording artists, as they do not have to bring in large. As well, less costly studio time is spent moving in gear, drummers bring their own snare drum, cymbals and sticks/brushes. The types and brands of equipment owned by a studio depends on the styles of music for the bands. A studio that mainly records heavy metal music will be likely to have large, powerful guitar amp heads, in contrast, a studio which mainly records country bands will likely have a selection of small, vintage combo amps. A studio that records a lot of 1970s-style funk may have an electric piano. General purpose computers have rapidly assumed a role in the recording process. A computer thus outfitted is called a Digital Audio Workstation, or DAW, other software applications include Ableton Live, Mixcraft, Cakewalk Sonar, ACID Pro, FL Studio, Adobe Audition, Auto-Tune, Audacity, and Ardour. While Apple Macintosh is used for most studio work, there is a breadth of available for Microsoft Windows. If no mixing console is used and all mixing is done using only a keyboard and mouse, the OTB is used when mixing with other hardware and not just the PC software
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YouTube
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005, Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube now operates as one of Googles subsidiaries. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos deemed potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old, YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube began as a venture capital-funded technology startup, primarily from an $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, YouTubes early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www. youtube. com was activated on February 14,2005, the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site, YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in November 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. The site has 800 million unique users a month and it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, the sites owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being regularly overloaded by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com, in October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13,2006. In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of certain content, according to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event. On March 31,2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface, Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented, We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. In May 2010, YouTube videos were watched more than two times per day. This increased to three billion in May 2011, and four billion in January 2012, in February 2017, one billion hours of YouTube was watched every day
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South Korea
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South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, is a sovereign state in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. The earliest Korean pottery dates to 8000 BC, with three kingdoms flourishing in the 1st century BC and its rich and vibrant culture left 19 UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritages of Humanity, the third largest in the world, along with 12 World Heritage Sites. Annexed into Imperial Japan in 1910, Korea was divided after its surrender in 1945, peace has since mostly continued with the two agreeing to work peacefully for reunification and the South solidifying peace as a regional power with the worlds 10th largest defence budget. South Koreas tiger economy soared at an average of 10% for over 30 years in a period of rapid transformation called the Miracle on the Han River. A long legacy of openness and focus on innovation made it successful, today, it is the worlds fifth largest exporter with the G20s largest budget surplus and highest credit rating of any country in East Asia. It has free trade agreements with 75% of the economy and is the only G20 nation trading freely with China, the US. Since 1988, its constitution guarantees a liberal democracy with high government transparency, high personal freedoms led to the rise of a globally influential pop culture such as K-pop and K-drama, a phenomenon called the Korean Wave, known for its distinctive fashionable and trendy style. Home of the UN Green Climate Fund and GGGI, South Korea is a leader in low carbon growth, committed to helping developing countries as a major DAC. It is the third least ignorant country in the Index of Ignorance, ranking eighth highest for peaceful tolerance. It is the worlds largest spender on R&D per GDP, leading the OECD in graduates in science, the name Korea derives from the name Goryeo. The name Goryeo itself was first used by the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo in the 5th century as a form of its name. The 10th-century kingdom of Goryeo succeeded Goguryeo, and thus inherited its name, the modern spelling of Korea first appeared in the late 17th century in the travel writings of the Dutch East India Companys Hendrick Hamel. After Goryeo was replaced by Joseon in 1392, Joseon became the name for the entire territory. The new official name has its origin in the ancient country of Gojoseon, in 1897, the Joseon dynasty changed the official name of the country from Joseon to Daehan Jeguk. The name Daehan, which means great Han literally, derives from Samhan, however, the name Joseon was still widely used by Koreans to refer to their country, though it was no longer the official name. Under Japanese rule, the two names Han and Joseon coexisted, there were several groups who fought for independence, the most notable being the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. Following the surrender of Japan, in 1945, the Republic of Korea was adopted as the name for the new country. Since the government only controlled the part of the Korean Peninsula
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Victoria Song
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Song Qian, better known as Victoria Song or Victoria, is a Chinese singer, dancer, actress and model based in South Korea and China. She debuted in 2009 as a member of South Korean girl group f, in 2010, Victoria gained fame as part of We Got Married Season 2, as well as being a cast member of KBSs Invincible Youth. That year, she won the Popularity Award at the MBC Entertainment Awards, Victoria is very popular in China, with over 20 million followers on Weibo, ranking fourth most followed K-pop celebrity as of April 2015. She was ranked No.80 on The 2013 Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Faces, in 2014, she won the 2014 Goddess of Asia poll with 579,298 votes. She was also named one of the top ten most popular celebrities on Baidu, Song Qian was born in Qingdao, China. She left her hometown at an age to study Chinese traditional dance at the Beijing Dance Academy. After her high school graduation, she was accepted to the Beijing Dance Academy, in September 2007, Victoria was scouted by an SM employee at a Beijing dance competition and later joined the company. She passed her audition for SM Entertainment and began preparing for her acting and modeling career in South Korea and she trained for two years at SM before her debut, from 2007 to 2009. Victorias first media appearance was for a Spris commercial in early 2008 with South Korean singer-actor Lee Joon-gi, in April 2008, she modeled for Samsung Anycall in a music video with Korean actor-singer Rain. She had also filmed a tourism commercial Hi, Seoul with TVXQ, in May 2008, she appeared in Shinees music video for the song Replay. Victoria debuted as a member of the South Korean girl group f in September 2009. In June 2010, Victoria became a cast member for the first season of the variety show Invincible Youth in which she was a part of G7 and she was also cast on the reality show We Got Married with Nichkhun of 2PM. The couple was known as Khuntoria in the variety show. Nichkhun and Victoria both gained popularity as a result of the shows success. At the end of the year, Victoria won the Popularity Award at the MBC Entertainment Awards for her stint in We Got Married. In 2011, Victoria became an endorsement model for brands, including Estee Lauders lipstick, LG with f and Girls Generation, Smoothie King with Sulli. On December 31,2011 Victoria and Nichkhun were chosen to host the 2011 MBC Gayo Daejun Festival. In January 2012, Victoria was cast to play the role in the Chinese-Taiwanese co-production When Love Walked In, alongside label-mate Zhou Mi
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Super Junior
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Super Junior, also known as simply SJ or SUJU, is a South Korean boy band. Formed in 2005 by producer Lee Soo-man of S. M, Entertainment, the group comprised a total of thirteen members at its peak. Super Junior originally debuted with twelve members, consisting of leader Leeteuk, Heechul, Hangeng, Yesung, Kangin, Shindong, Sungmin, Eunhyuk, Siwon, Donghae, Ryeowook, Kyuhyun joined the group in 2006. Super Junior launched into international recognition following the release of their best-selling single Sorry, Sorry in 2009, over the years, they have been divided into smaller groups, simultaneously targeting different music industries and audiences. Largely due to Super Juniors success as entertainers, other Korean entertainment managements began to train their music groups in areas of entertainment. Super Junior is the best-selling K-pop artist for four years in a row, in 2012, they were nominated for Best Asian Act in MTV Europe Music Awards. In 2015, they won the International Artist and Best Fandom in the Teen Choice Awards, in 2000, SM Entertainment held their first overseas casting auditions in Beijing 101, China and recruited Hankyung, who auditioned against three thousand applicants. That same year, Leeteuk, Yesung, and Eunhyuk were recruited after auditioning for the companys annual casting system in Seoul, Sungmin and Donghae became trainees after jointly winning first place in an SM-sponsored contest in 2001. In 2002, Heechul and Kangin were recruited along with Kibum, Siwon became a trainee after being scouted in 2003. Shindong became a trainee in 2004, Ryeowook won the 2004 Chin Chin Youth Festival singing competition and became a trainee just two months before debut in 2005. Kyuhyun then joined the group in 2006, after winning third place in the 2005 Chin Chin Youth Festival, in early 2005, Lee Soo-man announced that he had been preparing for an all-boy project group of twelve members to debut at the end of the year. He called this group to be The Gateway to Stardom of Asia, as most of the members in this group were chosen for their experiences as actors, MCs, models. Heechul and Kibum were already established actors at the time, and most of the members had already made various kinds of appearances in television. This concept was then introduced to the K-pop market. For a while the group was rumoured to be called O. V. E. R, however, before the group settled with their current name, the company simply referred to them as juniors, a representation of the members young ages when they first became SM trainees. Super Junior 05 made their performance on the Korean channel Mnet on September 11,2005. At the showcase, they performed various styles of hip-hop dancing, Hankyung, Eunhyuk, and Donghae also performed a separate dance together, dancing to Ushers Caught Up. However, the performance did not air on television until May 16,2006 as a segment in the Super Junior Show, the group officially debuted on SBSs music program Popular Song on November 6,2005, performing their first single Twins
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