Film Review: Nine Muses of Star Empire
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 by the BBC is available on your favorite...
View ArticleI Read A Book: Yasue Kuwahara’s The Korean Wave: Korean Popular Culture in...
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 books in English delving into Korean culture,...
View ArticleI Read A Book: Youna Kim’s The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global
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 Korean culture as shared worldwide that are written...
View ArticleI Read A Book: Euny Hong’s The Birth of Korean Cool
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 least this is the book I have been waiting for — to explain...
View ArticleGee, the Consequences of Jessica’s Departure from Girls’ Generation?
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 through the k-pop fandom community, considering that...
View ArticleActually, It’s Actually about Ethics in Journalism: Recent Korean Dramas...
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 watch two recent Korean shows that consider what it means to be...
View ArticleI Read A Book: John Lie’s K-pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and...
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 strengths are not in the discussion of the...
View ArticleAre Things Changing for Portrayals of Gay Characters in Korean Dramas?
by Raizel Liebler Are things changing for portrayals of gay characters in Korean dramas? Possibly — at least according to several recent instances of positive and well-rounded portrayals of...
View ArticleI Read A Book: Choi and Maliangkay’s K-pop: the international rise of the...
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 quickly growing world of edited collections...
View Article‘Benefits’ and Labor – K-pop Fandom in Tokyo Beyond the Major Groups
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 country for the Korean music industry” (117). The...
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