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Book Review: Catch the Hallyu Wave: Two Recent Books on Korean Pop Culture
Two recent books, East Asian pop culture : analysing the Korean wave (EAPC) & Pop goes Korea : behind the revolution in movies, music, and internet culture, discuss the Korean wave of pop culture...
View ArticleWill the Hallyu Wave Reach the U.S.?: Music: Part One
Based on the popularity of our earlier post on the hallyu wave, we plan on writing more about Korean culture. We are starting with music — specifically pop and rock. This first post will mention some...
View ArticleWhen is 1000 true music fans not enough?: Faith No More, Kylie Minogue,...
If you don’t know the artists (Faith No More & Kylie Minogue) and musical genres (J-pop & hallyu) mentioned in the title of this post, that doesn’t make you odd. You just aren’t aware of these...
View ArticleWhy you should watch Princess Hours (Goong) on Dramafever
So now you know where to legally stream anime (at least in the U.S.) and considering our post on Hallyu was our most popular post last year, what about watching Korean dramas with English subtitles?...
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What Harujuku? and Gossip Manwha
As a followup to our recent posts about anime and Korean dramas, we have more about the cross-cultural influence of pop culture from Asia, or what Lisa Katayama calls on BoingBoing, the weird /othering...
View ArticleUpdate on Hallyu Wave: It’s getting closer
Of our very diverse blog posts, some of the most popular are about hallyu, the export of Korean pop culture. While still very much a subculture outside of Asia, the idea of k-pop music used as...
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Guide for the Perplexed: QR Codes
From Clever Cupcakes, Montreal (@clever_cupcakes) Ever seen those square bar code-looking thingies on the bus or train or in a magazine and wonder what they were? They’re called QR Codes and they are...
View ArticleGuide for the Perplexed: The Baddest Female Seoul City Ever Had: The Rise of...
Here in the U.S., it seems like there can only be one highly successful female rapper at a time — now Nicki Minaj (and hence the “Eve wants Lil Kim to settle her beef with Nicki”). But in Korea,...
View ArticleThe Dark Side of Hallyu (Korean Wave)?
Today, the BBC posted an article entitled The Dark Side of Korean Pop Music. Interestingly, this is only a couple of months after the Guardian had an article on K-pop: how South Korea turned round its...
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Some of the Most Interesting Kpop of 2013
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 trying to innovate — and stuck with blah. (We’re not talking about...
View ArticleGuide for the Perplexed: Kpop, or how I learned to Stop Worrying about the...
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 year, including a write-up in Pitchfork and two of Spin...
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The Blurred Line Between Music and Advertising in K-pop
by Raizel Liebler One of the most interesting aspects of looking at Asian popular culture from a Western perspective is how the lines between art and advertising — otherwise known as “don’t be a...
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