Idols of K-Pop

Idols of K-Pop
Author: Malcolm Mackenzie
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0062977792

Whether you’re new to K-Pop or a die-hard super stan, Idols of K-Pop is your essential guide to the current K-Pop scene. This unofficial guide features the biggest names in the Korean music genre, including BTS, Blackpink, Twice, Exo, and many more. This guide contains 64 full-color pages all about the world of K-Pop, with up-close photos of the idols, facts, personal info and gossip, candid commentary, and so much more!

K-Pop Idols

K-Pop Idols
Author: Hark Joon Lee
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1498588263

Converging theory and practice, this book provides a unique analysis of Korean youth’s attempts to become global celebrities within the growing K-pop phenomenon, which is rapidly becoming part of global media systems and culture. K-pop has become one of the most popular cultural forms in the global music markets, despite having a relatively new global presence. Its recent spread around the world suggests that K-pop exists as a local-based genre of music in global markets, including Western markets. Unlike other existing books on K-pop, which mainly focus solely on academic analyses or industrial perspectives, K-Pop Idols: Popular Culture and the Emergence of Korean Music Industry combines theory with industry and musical aesthetics. Following the idol group Nine Muses through a year-long chronicle, the authors portray the everyday lives of young girls relentlessly pursuing happiness, satisfaction, and the achievement of their dreams in the K-pop world.

You're Beautiful: Kpop Romance Based on a True Story

You're Beautiful: Kpop Romance Based on a True Story
Author: UK Jung
Publisher: KpopBehind
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2018-09-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

Minjoo is a 16-year-old girl who has always dreamed of being a k-pop star. Fortunately, she passes her 21st audition and becomes a trainee of Fish Entertainment, one of the biggest k-pop agencies. There she meets two handsome trainees, Minho and Giho, both of whom like her. And she continues her efforts to realize her dream. However, she’s faced with an unexpected ordeal. Can Minjoo realize her dream by debuting as a k-pop idol? And will she be happy together with her boyfriend? This novel has been reconstituted based on a true story. The author has been working as a k-pop journalist since 2010 and has heard many stories regarding k-pop idols’ love and dating. He included the stories in the novel, and the book also contains unknown facts about the k-pop industry.

Kpop Idols Wiki

Kpop Idols Wiki
Author: Fandom Media
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2017-01-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781542805940

-Brand New 2017 Edition- Hello K-Pop fan! Do You Have a Bias (i.e., Your Favorite Idol Group)? And Have You Ever Wondered Any of The Following Questions: About The Group - What Does Their Band Name Mean? What Is Their Fandom Name? When Was Their Debut Year? What Is Their Official Site And YouTube Channel? Idol Members Profiles - Who Uses Stage Name / Real Name? What is Their Height/Weight And Blood Type? Do Their Birth Date / Zodiac Sign Match Yours? How Many Albums Have They Released So Far? What TV Apperances Have They Made? Where Did They Have Concerts? Tours? What Awards Have They Received? Also The Big Question - What Is The Instagram/Twitter/Weibo Account of Your Favorite Idol Member? And What Is Their Facebook Fan Page? You Can Find The Answer To The Questions In The Book! Our 2017 Edition Covers The Top 30 Hottest K-POP Idol Groups: 2NE1, 2PM, AOA, Apink, Astro, B.A.P, B1A4, BEAST, BIG BANG, Black Pink, BLOCK B, BtoB, BTS, CNBlue, EXID, EXO, f(x), FT Island, Got 7, INFINITE, MAMAMOO, Red Velvet, SHiNee, Sistar, Super Junior, Teen Top, Twice, U-KISS, Winner, ZE: A With This Handy Little Reference Book, You Won't Have To Look Any Further! HappY K-Popping!

Women We Love

Women We Love
Author: SooJin Lee
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2023-09-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9888754203

Women We Love: Femininities and the Korean Wave is an edited volume exploring femininities in and around the Korean Wave since 2000. While studies on the Korean Wave are abundant, there is a dearth of thought put toward the female-identifying stars, characters, and fans who shape and lead this crucial cultural movement. This collection of essays is one of the first works to focus on gender and the key female actors of this global phenomenon. Using “women” as an inclusive term extending to all those who self-define as women, this volume examines the role of women in K-pop and K-drama industries and fandom spaces, encompassing crucial intersectional topics such as queering of gender, dissemination of media, and fan culture. In addition to the communities engaged with visual culture of the Korean Wave, the audience for Women We Love will reflect the contributors to this text. They are K-pop and K-drama fans, queer, international; they are also academics of Asian histories, sociology, gender and sexuality, art history, and visual culture. The chapters are playful, intersectional, and will be adapted well into syllabi for media studies, gender studies, visual culture studies, sociology, and contemporary global history. “Women We Love goes far beyond the dyad of the flower boy Hallyu star and his female fan to offer readers an illuminating discussion of plural femininities in the Korean Wave since the turn of the millennium. The essays will answer many burning yet heretofore unanswered questions about the affective resonances and political significance of Korean popular culture’s gender dynamics, which have fascinated, puzzled, and at times frustrated many fans and observers. Rigorously interdisciplinary, yet grounded in textual detail, historical context, and material reception practices, this is a timely and valuable contribution to the study of gender, fandom, and global media.” —Michelle Cho, University of Toronto “This is a provoking and fascinating book—one of the most awaited books in Hallyu studies. Drawing from a multitude of feminist theories and case studies, this edited volume not only provides captivating and much-needed discussions but also critically expands the current debates in gender studies, feminism studies, and fan studies. This book is vital literature for researchers, students, and practitioners who are willing to advance their understanding of the Korean Wave from a new scope and angle.” —Dal Yong Jin, Simon Fraser University

Pop City

Pop City
Author: Youjeong Oh
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2018-12-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1501730746

Pop City examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the phenomenon of Korean pop culture, Youjeong Oh argues that pop culture–featured place selling mediates two separate domains: political decentralization and the globalization of Korean popular culture. By analyzing the process of culture-featured place marketing, Pop City shows that urban spaces are produced and sold just like TV dramas and pop idols by promoting spectacular images rather than substantial physical and cultural qualities. Oh demonstrates how the speculative, image-based, and consumer-exploitive nature of popular culture shapes the commodification of urban space and ultimately argues that pop culture–mediated place promotion entails the domination of urban space by capital in more sophisticated and fetishized ways.

KPOP 101

KPOP 101
Author: HowExpert
Publisher: HowExpert
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2017-02-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1647587905

If you want to learn about Kpop, then get KPOP 101 to learn about korean pop. This is a fantastic guide for kpop fans written from a real kpop fan's perspective! What is Kpop and why is everyone talking about it? Get Kpop Explained and find out! Korean pop music isn’t just a fad. It is a whole world. Interested in this world but don’t know how to navigate it? We can help! We’ll tell you the differences between Kpop fans and the rest of the music industry. You’ll learn the basics of how the Kpop industry works and how it generates idols so often. We even give you a glossary of the lingo – both in English and Korean! After reading this book, you’ll be able to fangirl out and fit in with the rest. Some other topics covered in this book are: • Read about everything you need to know in order to navigate the Kpop world. • What does being a Kpop fan entail? Learn the difference between being a Kpop fan and a fan of other genres of music. • Learn the basics of how the Kpop industry works. What is the process of becoming an idol? • Find a glossary of fandom lingo to keep in your pocket (both English and Korean words!) Get comfortable and be able to use them in everyday fangirling. • Get a basic introduction to the hottest groups. Read about their accomplishments and entertaining trivia. Be familiar with the trending topics before even getting into Kpop. • Go in depth about topics even longtime Kpop fans don’t really understand. What are “Kpop generations?” “What is the difference between daesang and bonsang?” • Find introductions about the major highlights of Kpop as a whole. What are the festivals and events you can look forward to? • Read about the TV shows you can watch for more entertainment. There are variety shows, reality shows, survival competitions and more. Add them to your “to watch list!” • Get exposed to the more controversial side of Kpop. The things that most fans don’t want to talk about or tell you about. • Know where to find your fandom family and enjoy the Kpop experience! • Kpop generations • The difference between daesang and bonsang • Festivals and events you can look forward to • TV shows you can watch for more entertainment and Kpop • The more controversial side of Kpop • Most importantly – we’ll let you know where to find your fandom family and where you can enjoy the Kpop experience! About the Expert Fefe is a writer and translator. But more importantly, she has been a Kpop fangirl for almost 10 years. Her biases are Suga from BTS and the entirety of Exo. She spends her free time crying over her bias’s pictures and participating in all aspects of the fandom. As a trilingual (English, Chinese and Korean), she helps translate interviews, songs and videos for international fans. Other than Kpop, Fefe is also a fan of Cpop singers such as Bii, Leehom Wang and G.E.M Tang. Her favorite authors are Vladimir Nabokov, Laini Taylor and Maggie Stiefvater. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

Digital Mediascapes of Transnational Korean Youth Culture

Digital Mediascapes of Transnational Korean Youth Culture
Author: Kyong Yoon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2019-10-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0429890206

Drawing on vivid ethnographic field studies of youth on the transnational move, across Seoul, Toronto, and Vancouver, this book examines transnational flows of Korean youth and their digital media practices. This book explores how digital media are integrated into various forms of transnational life and imagination, focusing on young Koreans and their digital media practices. By combining theoretical discussion and in depth empirical analysis, the book provides engaging narratives of transnational media fans, sojourners, and migrants. Each chapter illustrates a form of mediascape, in which transnational Korean youth culture and digital media are uniquely articulated. This perceptive research offers new insights into the transnationalization of youth cultural practices, from K-pop fandom to smartphone-driven storytelling. A transnational and ethnographic focus makes this book the first of its kind, with an interdisciplinary approach that goes beyond the scope of existing digital media studies, youth culture studies, and Asian studies. It will be essential reading for scholars and students in media studies, migration studies, popular culture studies, and Asian studies.

The Soft Power of the Korean Wave

The Soft Power of the Korean Wave
Author: Youna Kim
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2021-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000437523

At this fascinating historical moment, this timely collection explores the new meaning of the Korean Wave and the process of media production, representation, distribution and consumption in a global context as a distinctive and complex form of soft power. Focusing on the most recent phenomenon of Korean popular culture, this book considers the Korean Wave in the global digital age and addresses the social, cultural and political implications in their complexity within the contexts of global inequalities and uneven power structures. The collection brings together internationally renowned scholars and regional specialists to examine this historically significant, visibly growing, yet under-explored current phenomenon in the global digital age. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from media and communications, cultural studies, sociology, history and anthropology, and including a series of case studies from Asia, the USA, Europe and the Middle East, it provides an empirically rich and theoretically stimulating tour of this area of study, going beyond the standard Euro-American view of the evolving and complex dynamics of the media today. This collection is essential reading for students and scholars interested in Korean popular culture and in film, media, fandom and cultural industries more widely.