by Raizel Liebler I didn’t especially like teen directed shows even when I was a teen. And now when high school seems so long ago,…
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…
by Raizel Liebler This discussion of Amber is part of a series of posts about gender and sexuality in K-pop. The response of many after…
by Raizel Liebler This discussion of Ga-in is part of a series of posts about gender and sexuality in K-pop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO_EZpJ74TI If you’ve ever seen…
by Raizel Liebler This discussion of GD & T.O.P is part of a series of posts about gender and sexuality in K-pop. The introductory posts…
While awaiting the release of The Korean Popular Culture Reader from Duke University Press in fall 2013, and generally wondering where all the books are…
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…
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…