It started
as a mission
to be the
compendium
of kpop

kpopping is a platform for kpop fans. We created kpopping because we believed the kpop community deserved better than old wordpress blogs and their outdated software to follow what's happening in Korea. 

We knew the kpop community's passion so we based our platform on a wiki model so every user can contribute, then combined it with strict community-based moderation and a level-based permission system to ensure high standards along with automatic calendar tracking (in KST) and social data graphing to achieve what we believe is the best genre-based music platform that has been made.

We hope you find our website useful, and we welcome all corrections and suggestions. We regret the inevitable mistakes of translation between such different languages as English and Korean and are doing our best rectify all such inconsistencies and errors in information that kpopping might be guilty of; and we beseech the mantle of charity in view of the stupendousness of this undertaking and its near-endless difficulties.

With such a view in mind, we beg to assure the reader that we did everything "ad majorem Kpop gloriam." (For the greater glory of kpop)

The information on our pages, like all wikis or user-generated sites, is provided by users like yourself. This means that the information on our website, while usually accurate, is by no means infallible. Where possible we try to use sources to verify information in Korean media, but sometimes even Korean media is wrong. Databases like kpopping are tertiary sources. Tertiary sources collect knowledge that has already been published in what are called secondary sources. Tertiary sources do not generate new knowledge but rather just reflect what is already known and has already been published on a topic. If what has been published is incorrect then these errors will be replicated in kpopping.

We take pride in being different from other kpop platforms and wikis with our XP system that has been specifically crafted to make our wiki vandalism resistent. Our platform takes a gradual approach to welcoming new users. Moreover, our staff thoroughly reviews nearly every submission before it is published. While no system is perfect, our objective is to prevent the vast majority of malicious edits and trolling behavior.

Kpopping was launched in July 2017 by David Justin and Roland Bodnar. There have been innumerable people who have contributed to the project since then, all of which have our sincerest gratitude and of which we'd like to single out several contributors for special praise including: Axel, Bei, Kristel, Raine, Krypta, Xyliaa, Nayeoni, Cindy and Derek Silvers. We are still under active development as of 2024.

In early 2021 we chose the name Turtle Front to be the official name for our company (a homage to Yi Sun-Sin and the proverb festina lente, in English "to make haste slowly.")

You can contact the admins at [email protected] for any questions or comments.

I think of kpopping like a garden. Every day I come outside and look at which plants are doing well, which are struggling and where the weeds are growing. 

Each time I come out I make sure I hit something with my shears-- this is where the growing is done and there's always room for improvement. Come join our discord channel if you'd like more specific information about our updates.

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