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 Dal Yong Jin’s New Korean Wave: transnational cultural power in the age of social media (2016) is an important entry to the…
by Raizel Liebler Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media (University of Michigan 2015), edited by Sangjoon Lee and Abe Markus…
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…
[youtube_sc url=”j7_lSP8Vc3o” playlist=”NB5jyYD2WEw” title=”2ne1%20videos” fs=”1″ ] We, your Learned Fangirls, are trying out something a bit different with this post, our first The Learned Fangirl…
We write a lot about hallyu (exported Korean pop culture) on this blog, and K-pop has really started to hit the mainstream U.S. press this…
[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…
With the recent cancellation of All My Children and One Live to Live, after Guiding Light and As the World Turns, many are calling the…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH01RKvKUNs] Of our very diverse blog posts, some of the most popular are about hallyu, the export of Korean pop culture. While still very much…