by Miranda Ruth Larsen K-pop as we know it simply isn’t possible without Japan. Dal Yong Jin contends that Japan is “the most significant foreign…
by Raizel Liebler K-pop: the international rise of the Korean music industry (2015), edited by JungBong Choi and Roald Maliangkay, is another entry in the…
by Raizel Liebler Are things changing for portrayals of gay characters in Korean dramas? Possibly — at least according to several recent instances of positive…
by Raizel Liebler John Lie’s K-pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea is a good, but poorly named book. The book’s…
by Raizel Liebler If you want to take a break from North American real and fictional scandals about ethics in journalism, I invite you to…
by Raizel Liebler The sudden departure of Jessica Jung from nine member group Girls’ Generation (AKA SNSD and So Nyeo Shi Dae) has caused shockwaves…
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…
by Raizel Liebler Yasue Kuwahara’s The Korean Wave: Korean Popular Culture in Global Context (2014) is an excellent entry in the ever increasing corpus of…
by Keidra Chaney & Raizel Liebler We recently saw the full-length Nine Muses of Star Empire documentary. [A shorter version of this documentary as aired…