LE Media

HiphopLE is a Korean online music magazine which was founded in November 2010. The magazine mostly focuses on "Urban music" such as hip-hop and R&B. Its goal is to improve the understanding and provide easier approach for Korean people to urban music. It provides World-wide news, subtitled music videos, editorials, interviews, and also hosts various events such as album sales and concerts. HiphopLE has its own unique ways of surging in the online music scene and one of them is by using social network like Twitter and Facebook to reach out to the visitors and to gather informations. This allowed HiphopLE to engage in many discussions with the members of itself and to share their opinions about urban music culture. The number of followers of social networks is reaching up to 160,000, while over 300 contents are updated monthly. The community section has also shown its activeness, with 2,600 posts and 15,000 replies in average written by its regular visitors. The News is most recognized by the fact that it delivers up-to-date news, faster than any other Korean web magazines. Magazine corner provides many different articles, ranging from Hip-Hop to soul, funk, and other genres in urban music. Several editorials are uploaded to help listeners to have better understanding of urban music and to stimulate their interest for it. Subtitled music videos and special clips, one of the site's strengths, features various music videos, concert clips, documentaries, etc. subtitled in Korean. As of August 2012, HiphopLE made over 1000 subtitled movies, most of them American Hip-hop and R&B while some of them are Chinese and Japanese. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiphopLE