Muan County (Muan-gun) is a county in South Jeolla Province (Jeollanam-do), South Korea. In 2005, Muan County became the capital of Jeollanam-do following the transfer of the provincial office from its previous location, Gwangju to the village of Namak in Muan. Muan International Airport was opened here, and will eventually replace the airports in Gwangju and Mokpo.

Muan is not to be confused with Buan, a county in North Jeolla Province.

On January 1 of 1963, several villages (ri in Korean) were incorporated into Mokpo city and huge reorganization was made by Korean government. In 1979, Muan township was promoted to a township (eup of South Korea). In 1980, Illo was also promoted into a township.

Muan County is located on the western tip of the South Western part of the Korean peninsula. It acts as the primary link between Sinan county with the rest of the Korean mainland. Numerous beaches are also found on Muan's coast.

Muan borders Yeongsan river with Naju and Hampyeong to the north, Yeongam to the east, Mokpo to the south. These surroundings have influenced the industrial and cultural structure of Muan County.

Barbara Kanam (born September 27, 1973) is a globally recognized and award-winning Congolese singer-songwriter, music producer and actress. Kanam's work has been called a "standard" for female African musicians and she is known within the contemporary urban African music scene for the high quality of her voice.^{[citation needed]}

Kanam was born in Bukavu, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

In 1991, the same year she first became involved in music, Kanam earned a Brevet de Technicien Supérieur ("Advanced Specialist") degree in international business. She started to sing and write music for an orchestra band called Devotion but also engaged in formal musical study. Kanam developed her vocal technique at the prestigious Psalmody Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa, and concurrently received guitar lessons. In 1994, after thirteen months of musical lessons, Kanam created a musical arrangement for her first tour, the "Acoustic One Woman Show", which toured Central Africa.^{[citation needed]}

Brendan Nadel Woodard (born April 18, 1980), also known by his stage name Aren B is an American singer-song writer and entrepreneur, who made it to the top 30 on the sixth season of American Idol. Founder of the digital record label The RAIN Digital, Aren B has written for a number of artists in a variety of genres ranging from R&B to Pop to Electronic House music. In 2012, he had his most commercial success to date with EMI Music Poland recording artist Patricia Kazadi and her single "Burning Through My Heart".

Aren B has several Electro House releases under such labels as System Recordings, Kolour Recordings (Bernard Jones III), Muzique Boutique, Lost My Dog, Loud East Records, and a remix of his 2009 release "Beautiful Connection" by OM Records Artist/DJ Fred Everything which charted on the Dance/Electronic Albums in 2010.

The Lao Song (Thai: ลาวโซ่ง [laːsoːŋ]^{[missing tone]}) are an ethnic group of Thailand. The Lao Song are also known as the Tai Song (ไทโซ่ง), Lao Song Dam (ลาวโซ่งดำ) or simply as the Song or Song Dam.

The Lao Song are descendants of Lao peoples from the areas of Tonkin and areas east of Luang Prabang when they were forcibly removed to the areas of Central Thailand today as slaves and corvée labourers during Siamese annexation during the 18th and 19th centuries. Most were members of the Tai Dam ethnic group (counted by the Chinese government as members of the Dai ethnic group) and the traditional dress, language, and culture is remarkable as a preservation of Tai Dam culture in the heart of Central Thailand and Thaification policies. The Lao Song were used as guards for the royal courts and to help control the powerful Chinese minority, which explains their widespread distribution.

There are approximately 34,000 Lao Song spread out over Central Thailand, including Phetchabun, Phitsanulok, Nakhon Sawan, Ratchaburi, Suphan Buri, Kanchanaburi, Chumphon and Nakhon Pathom Provinces.