Experience it anymore. Everything they will learn about it will be from history books. #northeastasia #culturalexchange

I think in the future the exchange of popular culture between the countries will only grow because of how easily accessible it is with social media and illegal websites. As fans grow older, they will also not think about the controversial past as much since their parents or grandparents did not even

Once they have crossed that barrier of prejudice towards other countries, the political tensions do not change what they like. I know many Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese students who are interested in Korean popular culture and they do not seem to care about what their government thinks at all.

Happening however, we see that these kinds of bans just create more illegal imports instead of the imports becoming less. I think a lot of people who consume popular culture from other countries do not think about the political situation and just want to see the drama or idol that they like.

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Politics in Northeast Asia affects the circulation of popular culture in multiple ways. As we discussed in class, whenever there are political tensions, governments try to stop the stream of cultural imports from the country they have tensions with. If we look at what is actually

Cultural appropriation should be part of the training process so idols can be educated about it. Stylists and companies should be educated as well because fans often say that it is not the idol’s fault but the stylist’s fault.

Myself through social media. It is good that these days K-pop artists are paying more attention to not culturally appropriating but there is still too much appropriation. Lots of idols still wear braids and durags and say the N-word. Since K-pop is becoming more global I think learning about

K-pop is largely based on hip-hop so cultural appropriation is already a big part of K-pop even when they try not to appropriate. People outside of the US do not get educated about cultural appropriation so they often don’t understand what the problem is. I also did not get educated but I educated

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Today we talked about cultural appropriation in K-pop and if it has become less common these days. Compared to ten years ago, it has definitely become less common because of the growing international fan base that started to call out the artists who were culturally appropriating.

So now it is more hidden to cause less controversy. Or sometimes it is not hidden but just sung in a different language like cookie by newjeans. #objectification #sexualization #kpop

More suggestive. They don’t actually show excessive twerking but they do show revealing clothing, shady camera angles and suggestive dance moves which is problematic if the members are minors. I think this is changing because of feminist movements who don’t accept blatant objectification anymore,

The whole video and we watched some videos from newer generations with much younger members like Newjeans. A big difference between these generations is the age difference. Hyuna and others who did sexy concepts were older but these days a lot of groups are full of minors. The new videos are much

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If we compare older generation girl groups with newer generation girl groups and their sexuality we can see a lot of changes. It used to be more blatant sexualization and objectification whereas right now it is more hidden. Today we watched a video of Hyuna shaking her ass for basically

Demasculinize them by calling it soft masculinity. But soft masculinity is just men wearing makeup and being in touch with their feminine side. Which is just a form of self expression and has nothing to do with how masculine they are.

They find another way to make fun of it or criticize it by calling it soft masculinity. They feel threatened because while Psy was not considered desirable by many people, BTS is. Western men cannot accept that there are other forms of masculinity that are desirable to women so they try to

This helps us to understand the difficulty with accepting the masculinity of other K-pop groups as well. The west seems to have a problem with accepting masculinity that is different from their usual standards. Even though Psy’s masculinity is vastly different from the way BTS presents themselves,

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In an article about masculinity, Park analyzes Psy’s Gangnam style and how it is received overseas (Park 2015, 195). He finds that his popularity is largely due to people laughing at his funny appearance instead of laughing with him because they don’t understand the lyrics (Ibid, 196-97)

every now and then or just use the hybridization method. #BTS #Englishinkpop

see them kind of ignore their origin and focus so much on the US. They also focus a lot on the Japanese market but they don’t release three Japanese songs back to back which is what they did with English songs. It would be better if they kept focusing on Korean songs and then release English songs

Songs fully in English, just to appeal to the Western market. The lyrics were not good and it was not the typical style that fans were used to, so it seemed like they rebranded themselves to appeal to different markets. Of course their content still had a lot of Korean elements but it was a pity to

viral around the world are in English, so in order to make Korean songs go viral, using English could help with this. I agree with these points and how it slowly replaces local cultures. A good example of this is BTS. They used to make songs with mostly Korean lyrics, but then released a couple of

local products to combine which is called hybridization (Ibid, 115). We can see this in K-pop through the increasing use of English lyrics in Korean pop songs, usually in the hook. English is also used because it is the lingua franca, especially in the music industry (Ibid, 120). Most songs that go

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According to Jin and Ryoo English appears in K-pop because of globalization and the influence of western powers (Jin and Ryoo 2014, 114). This influence causes local products to get more and more westernized and get replaced by western based formulas, or causes western and local

That is why it is disrespectful to say the government made K-pop because by saying that you are disregarding all the effort that went into the creation process which had nothing to do with the government. #Kpop #government #artists

The artists who create the art. To make music, you don’t just need money and promotion, you need talent. You need songwriters, dancers, singers and all other talents related to the creation process. Governments cannot create this art, they can only help the artists with promoting and supporting them

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Saying the government “made K-pop” is disrespectful to the artists (not just singers, but all the artists involved in a production). The South Korean government obviously helped the K-pop industry a lot through various laws and investments. However, K-pop could never be K-pop without

YouTube video by NewJeans NewJeans (뉴진스) 'Zero' Official MV

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They were extremely popular at the time and like I said before, people were anticipating new music. The techniques the video is using is the popularity of newjeans and their ability to go viral with almost every song they release. The song just says official mv instead of “ad”.

Controversial since a lot of fans were waiting for a new song or album and instead they released this. Fans were confused about it being a new song or just an ad, but the lyrics quickly revealed the true purpose of the song. In this ad, newjeans’ reputation as well as their music was important.

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Today I will talk about the Coca-Cola advertisement of Newjeans. It was a full length song about cola with zero sugar. I cannot find how much they got paid for this, but I did find that they received more than 10 billion won for advertising contracts. I think this song was slightly