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 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 Dal Yong Jin’s New Korean Wave: transnational cultural power in the age of social media (2016) is an important entry to the…
by Keidra Chaney & Raizel Liebler This is an excerpt from our essay published in The Good Life in Asia’s Digital 21st Century, an essay collection…
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…
by Raizel Liebler Of all of the posts in the gender and sexuality in Kpop series, this one has been the hardest to write. If…
by Raizel Liebler This was an interesting year for pop music. In many ways, this was the year that U.S.-based pop music gave up even…
by Raizel Liebler This discussion of Minzy and IU is part of a series of posts about gender and sexuality in K-pop. The introductory posts…