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Last Fans Standing: Longtime and Adult Fans of Korean Popular Music (K-pop)

This survey has been revised! Click here for new survey!!! Most people assume that the only audience for modern Korean popular music (K-pop) is teenagers. As a result, they also assume that K-pop music lacks longevity. However, the presence of longtime fans suggests that K-pop remains appealing to some fans for years. The existence of…

Reading the ‘Korean Wave’ as a Sign of Global Shift

Cho Hae-Joang examines managine and newspaper articles using discourse analysis to reveal three distinct perspectives in relation to the Korean wave. . . . Read more at Public Circulation!

iFans: We Are One! EXO::EXO-L

We Are One! EXO::EXO-L is the first fandom profile for my iFans project. Like the profiles to follow, it provides information on K-pop groups and their fandoms, including curated cover songs, cover dances and fan projects by fans. Click here to check it out!

K-pop Essentials: Shinhwa

The ‘Essentials” series is part of my digital humanities project, KPopCulture, which curates the music, visual culture, choreography, promotions, media and fan culture of K-pop that support this global cultural production. “Essentials” items tell you about a group through playlists of key music videos, performances, choreography and promotional videos. It also offers a bibliography of articles, music…

“Conflicting Desires: K-pop Idol Girl Groups Flows in Japan in the Era of Web 2.0,” Sun Jung and Yukie Hirata

Sun Jung and Yukie Hirata use the experience of the female K-pop group Girls’ Generation (SNSD) in Japan as a case study to examine how K-pop represents a different kind of transcultural flows and consumption. . . Read more at Public Circulation!

“Playing the Race and Sexuality Cards in the Transnational Pop Game: Korean Music Videos for the US Market,” Eun-Young Jung

Eun-Young Jung examines how the visuals of Korean music videos by BoA, Wonder Girls and Rain play on “racialized notions of sexuality” and “sexualized notions of racial identity.” . . . . Read more at Public Circulation!

“The Globalization of K-pop: Korea’s Place in the Global Music Industry,” Ingyu Oh

Ingyu Oh challenges approaches to Korean popular music based on cultural hybridity by arguing that the globalization of K-pop involves modifying musical content from Europe and other locations into Korean content and redistributing it to global audiences. In doing to, it occupies a void between Western and East Asian music industries. . . . read more…

K-pop Music/Industry

Scholars can take very different approaches to K-pop. Doing so simultaneously contributes to the overall knowledge about the subject and shows significant gaps in scholarly examinations. Some focus on K-pop as a music industry propelled by fandom, while others examine its historical roots.

Who’s Better, Who’s Best: Competition and Manipulation in K-pop (from KPK: Kpop Kollective)

Labor from Below: What Neoliberal Capitalism Overlooks in K-pop (from KPK: Kpop Kollective)

If Not Now, When?: Students and Difficult Reading

The Role of Implementation in High Impact Practices

Not Just Pretty Faces: K-pop Idols and Quiet Storm Masculinity

Digital Humanities for the Rest of Us

Last Fans Standing: Longtime and Adult Fans of Korean Popular Music (K-pop)

Reading the ‘Korean Wave’ as a Sign of Global Shift

iFans: We Are One! EXO::EXO-L

K-pop Essentials: Shinhwa

TALK: The Influence of African American Culture on K-pop @ California State University, Dominguez Hills, 2/17/2016

“Conflicting Desires: K-pop Idol Girl Groups Flows in Japan in the Era of Web 2.0,” Sun Jung and Yukie Hirata

“Playing the Race and Sexuality Cards in the Transnational Pop Game: Korean Music Videos for the US Market,” Eun-Young Jung

“The Globalization of K-pop: Korea’s Place in the Global Music Industry,” Ingyu Oh

K-pop Music/Industry

“Questions of Genre in Black Popular Music,” David Brackett

“Motown Crossover Hits 1963-1966 and the Creative Process,” Jon Fitzgerald

The Globalizing Project of Korean Pop (K-pop), Shin Hyunjoon