Samantha Lui

Samantha Lui is a culture writer and radio producer based in Toronto. Her work has appeared on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Complex Canada, VICE, NBC Asian America and ELLE Canada. She previously spent a summer interning at Hong Kong's English daily newspaper, South China Morning Post. A fangirl at heart, she spends her free time watching K-pop videos on YouTube and Asian dramas. Follow her on Twitter at @samanthalui_.

Chris Grace sitting on a stool, wearing a button-up shirt.

‘Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson’ pokes fun at cross-racial casting

The actor and comedian discusses how Scarlett Johansson’s role in “Ghost in the Shell” inspired his comedy special

Photo of dance crew Neuron with rapper j-hope.

How dance crew Neuron shaped BTS’s j-hope’s passion for dance

The group reminisces on their humble beginnings and how they turned the rapper into one of K-pop’s best dancers

Nine members of a k-pop boy band look towards the camera. The center member is sitting.

CRAVITY reaches for new heights in ‘EVERSHINE’

No longer “Monster Rookies,” the K-pop group explores what it means to evolve

How K-Pop Artists Are Expanding Their Sound

Eight songs that prove how the genre is playing with some truly inspired genre-bending

K-Pop’s Fallen Hard for Y2K-Era R&B

But the genre has been borrowing sounds and styles from Black culture for decades

With ‘The Astronaut,’ BTS’s Jin Enters a New Chapter

Writer Samantha Lui on her favorite K-pop idol, their shared birth year, and his new single—a fitting goodbye before he heads off for military service