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 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 Miranda Ruth Larsen During the 2015 edition of KCON Los Angeles (the West coast half of the annual Korean culture and music con) fans…
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 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 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 Raizel Liebler One of the first book reviews I wrote for TLF all the way back in 2008 was about Mark James Russell’s earlier…