by Miranda Ruth Larsen While certain areas of Tokyo have become synonymous with different threads of popular culture, such as Harajuku for teen fashion and…
by Raizel Liebler Five years is a long time in music, especially in pop music. But five years ago, K-pop made its first major forays…
by Raizel Liebler To badly quote Bart Simpson after going on a Squishee bender, this is the book I’ve been telling you about. Or at…
by Raizel Liebler Youna Kim’s The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global (2013) is another excellent addition to the growing corpus of academic books on…
Kyung Hyun Kim & Youngmin Choe’s edited collection of academic essays, The Korean Popular Culture Reader is an important entry into popular culture and Asian…
Despite all of the talk about PSY in the United States, there is still so little substantive discussions of K-pop in English. Here, then, is…
The Learned Fangirl is steeped in the experience of being a fangirl. Unfortunately, there aren’t nearly enough pop culture examples that are from the perspective…
K-pop has recently gotten on the radar of mainstream English speaking audiences, including two mentions on Nightline and a story on Planet Money. However, the…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gdw1KiIs_8] Today, the BBC posted an article entitled The Dark Side of Korean Pop Music. Interestingly, this is only a couple of months after the…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I96WdNuim4] Here in the U.S., it seems like there can only be one highly successful female rapper at a time — now Nicki Minaj (and…