Frank Kogan

As you point out Diplo is the connection, but why Teddy is there I don't know. Maybe they've just become good friends.. would be interesting if a K-pop producer did some work with American artist, though, and not the other way around.

By the way, you mentioned earlier a potential discussion about how k-pop is financially viable, the sales charts, etc. Things have happened since then. Gaon are now releasing weekly download figures for tracks (but not album sales, although they did give us album numbers for 2010 in total), there's a couple of Guardian articles about k-pop where a Universal Europe guy brings up sales figures, and there's this chart that shows us Korea is the only market in the top 20 where digital sales outrank physical: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5146/5677049790_9dd48f7e98_b.jpg

- all of which support the picture of a market where the physical album is almost extinct, but where digital sales are healthier than mostly every other market (in sheer number of downloads, although with lower prices)

- The most-downloaded track in the USA 2010 was California Girls, at 4,398,212 million downloads.
- The most-downloaded track in Korea 2010 "Can't Let You Go, Even if I Die", at 3,352,827 million downloads.
(Best-selling US album 2010: 3.42 million, Korea: 200,193)

Guardian: K-pop: how South Korea turned round its music scene - "I've never had a single release [in Korea] that has sold less than 400,000"

Guardian: Behind the music: What is K-Pop and why are the Swedish getting involved

This week's download chart Park Bom tops with 417,710 downloads.