CedarBough T. Saeji
@thekpopprof.bsky.social
human- a professor of #Korean and East Asian Studies. Research on performing arts (traditional mask dance dramas, K-pop and hip-hop), media, museums, tourism... #kpop #kdramas 한/영. 합기도, cycling, food, coffee
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How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io
January 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Here's the CFP for the World Congress of Korean Studies, happening next September in Japan. The same details as in the screenshot can be found in Korean on the AKS homepage at this link: www.aks.ac.kr/cms/usr/wap/...
January 2, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Here's the CFP for the World Congress of Korean Studies, happening next September in Japan. The same details as in the screenshot can be found in Korean on the AKS homepage at this link: www.aks.ac.kr/cms/usr/wap/...
obviously golf is more important
We just cancelled all federal funding for foreign language & area studies at America’s universities to “save”…$86,000,000:
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Trump golfed 1/4 of the days he was president in 2025. Costing US taxpayers to pay his Golf clubs $110,600,000.
January 1, 2026 at 11:05 PM
obviously golf is more important
Side quest for this week-- make a best music of 2025 list-- which has been complicated by realizing I never did 2024. So I guess I'll do both as I try to revise and resubmit two articles. #kpop
Probably can't include this if I limit my list to under 100. youtu.be/rr4gKSjmh9Q?...
Probably can't include this if I limit my list to under 100. youtu.be/rr4gKSjmh9Q?...
IDID 아이딧 'STEP IT UP' Performance Video
YouTube video by STARSHIP
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January 1, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Side quest for this week-- make a best music of 2025 list-- which has been complicated by realizing I never did 2024. So I guess I'll do both as I try to revise and resubmit two articles. #kpop
Probably can't include this if I limit my list to under 100. youtu.be/rr4gKSjmh9Q?...
Probably can't include this if I limit my list to under 100. youtu.be/rr4gKSjmh9Q?...
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Again - I am cautiously optimistic the utter fucking blatancy of the attempt is creating an effective and true counter narrative.
So the “closed” daycares…were closed during the last week of the year, during which most daycares are closed. And the doors were “locked,” which they are at every daycare. And they wouldn’t let in a “journalist” with a camera…which they wouldn’t do at any daycare. Got it.
December 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Again - I am cautiously optimistic the utter fucking blatancy of the attempt is creating an effective and true counter narrative.
One of my student's creative project had a whole manhwa. This image is beautiful and has a great message. #LGBTQ+ #Acceptance
December 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
One of my student's creative project had a whole manhwa. This image is beautiful and has a great message. #LGBTQ+ #Acceptance
Dr. #OlgaFedorenko has published a new article many of you will want to read. She theorizes #K_branding as an #exotic spice. I freaking LOVE IT. You can find the article at this link-- free to download. #kpop #kdrama www.korea-europe-review.org/index.php/ke...
December 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Dr. #OlgaFedorenko has published a new article many of you will want to read. She theorizes #K_branding as an #exotic spice. I freaking LOVE IT. You can find the article at this link-- free to download. #kpop #kdrama www.korea-europe-review.org/index.php/ke...
The creative project + paper I am currently grading made 6 original #ATEEZ memes and talked about the themes in them in the paper. This meme was my favorite
December 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The creative project + paper I am currently grading made 6 original #ATEEZ memes and talked about the themes in them in the paper. This meme was my favorite
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My edited collection *Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop* is out soon (January 8!) with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social and available for pre-order now: rebrand.ly/kpop-stories. This volume grew out of years of thinking with (and teaching) K-pop storyworlds. #CriticalKPop
Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop
In Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop, contributors present a variety of compelling case studies to argue that K-pop has evolved beyond a m…
rebrand.ly
December 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
My edited collection *Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop* is out soon (January 8!) with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social and available for pre-order now: rebrand.ly/kpop-stories. This volume grew out of years of thinking with (and teaching) K-pop storyworlds. #CriticalKPop
My "East Asian Popular Culture" class has students do a "Creative Project" (anything related to EA pop culture), and then write a paper about it. The combo of creativity and writing is supposed to both push them away from AI and allow them to demonstrate their own individual learning.
December 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
My "East Asian Popular Culture" class has students do a "Creative Project" (anything related to EA pop culture), and then write a paper about it. The combo of creativity and writing is supposed to both push them away from AI and allow them to demonstrate their own individual learning.
It's Christmas morning, so... time for more grading.
December 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It's Christmas morning, so... time for more grading.
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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
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Hey, since we're all talking about CECOT again, And how sending innocent people to solitary confinement is a fundamentally evil practice...
Can we talk about solitary confinement in US prisons and jails yet? No?
It's only bad when the GOP does it?
It's okay when it happens to Black people?
Can we talk about solitary confinement in US prisons and jails yet? No?
It's only bad when the GOP does it?
It's okay when it happens to Black people?
Fine. Let's compare CECOT to being in solitary confinement in a US jail.
In both cases we have innocent people.
In both cases we have what international organizations have defined as torture.
In one case we have people in a cell 23.5 hrs a day (CECOT), and in the other 23.26 hrs a day (county).
In both cases we have innocent people.
In both cases we have what international organizations have defined as torture.
In one case we have people in a cell 23.5 hrs a day (CECOT), and in the other 23.26 hrs a day (county).
Solitary Confinement Is Inhumane
YouTube video by Partners for Justice
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December 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Hey, since we're all talking about CECOT again, And how sending innocent people to solitary confinement is a fundamentally evil practice...
Can we talk about solitary confinement in US prisons and jails yet? No?
It's only bad when the GOP does it?
It's okay when it happens to Black people?
Can we talk about solitary confinement in US prisons and jails yet? No?
It's only bad when the GOP does it?
It's okay when it happens to Black people?
Why do students think that I will think this is their voice and not AI? I struggle to write like this.
"This means that Chuseok functions today not as an agricultural ritual but as a nationally synchronized mobility event structured by industrial time."
"This means that Chuseok functions today not as an agricultural ritual but as a nationally synchronized mobility event structured by industrial time."
December 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Why do students think that I will think this is their voice and not AI? I struggle to write like this.
"This means that Chuseok functions today not as an agricultural ritual but as a nationally synchronized mobility event structured by industrial time."
"This means that Chuseok functions today not as an agricultural ritual but as a nationally synchronized mobility event structured by industrial time."
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it’s so annoying that i have to know what so many stupid incurious and hateful bigoted people are up to all the time. i shouldn’t even have to know what a “bari weiss” is.
December 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
it’s so annoying that i have to know what so many stupid incurious and hateful bigoted people are up to all the time. i shouldn’t even have to know what a “bari weiss” is.
너무 귀찮아서 이걸 스레드에 복붙하기 싫어요. 그래서 그냥 페북에서 스샷 찍어요.
December 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
너무 귀찮아서 이걸 스레드에 복붙하기 싫어요. 그래서 그냥 페북에서 스샷 찍어요.
Koreans actually celebrate #solstice on the 22nd (it's the 21st according to calculations of the placement of the earth). Traditionally you should eat bean porridge #팥죽 on winter solstice, so I stopped at the sijang & picked some up. The juk sellers had a large sign to remind everyone #동지
December 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM
MTG isn't coming to our side, she's just being less of a full throated MAGAt
Interesting how I haven’t seen a single person who tried to whitewash MTG’s violent history and claim she’s “coming around to our side now” speak a single word about her latest anti-trans bill.
December 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
MTG isn't coming to our side, she's just being less of a full throated MAGAt
Jesus H Christ, students, you can make the bibliography yourself, it takes 5 minutes. Or you can ask AI and if it doesn't know, it will MAKE ISHT UP. And then you will have a bogus bibliography for articles I know you read and had all the info to cite because they are class required readings
December 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Jesus H Christ, students, you can make the bibliography yourself, it takes 5 minutes. Or you can ask AI and if it doesn't know, it will MAKE ISHT UP. And then you will have a bogus bibliography for articles I know you read and had all the info to cite because they are class required readings
Have you thought about how using #ChatGPT or other #AI for #travel planning profoundly (negatively) impacts what you experience during your trip? My students and I thought about this and wrote an article. Our site is in #Korea, but the larger issue of how ChatGPT will send you to
(사)한국사회과학협의회 » Published Articles
www.kossrec.org
December 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Evil cannot recognize good, and they apparently can’t recognize bad PR either.
NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Trump-Vance White House Targets Beloved Nun in Texas, Retaliates Against Catholic Charities
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley — praised by Pope Leo as an “agent of hope” — now faces a six-year federal funding ban. Church leaders say it’s a vendetta by the Trump-Vance White House.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Evil cannot recognize good, and they apparently can’t recognize bad PR either.
Yesterday my German exchange students taught me a highly specific word, Einser-Bremse, which is basically what you put on the exam to make sure to only give an A to the deserving students. The fact that such a term ("A Breaker") exists just cracked me up.
December 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Yesterday my German exchange students taught me a highly specific word, Einser-Bremse, which is basically what you put on the exam to make sure to only give an A to the deserving students. The fact that such a term ("A Breaker") exists just cracked me up.
I don't think I can ever get over how good this song is. #OhHyuk #SunsetRollercoaster youtu.be/kb0whVogBkI?...
Sunset Rollercoaster - Candlelight feat. OHHYUK (Official Video), 2020
YouTube video by Sunset Rollercoaster落日飛車
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December 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I don't think I can ever get over how good this song is. #OhHyuk #SunsetRollercoaster youtu.be/kb0whVogBkI?...
I saved one really smart student's paper to grade last. Like a treat at the end. By the time I found the FOURTH item in the biblio that was AI imagination, I felt so betrayed. I let this student turn in the paper super late, I was so understanding, I looked forward to reading, and I got this.
December 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I saved one really smart student's paper to grade last. Like a treat at the end. By the time I found the FOURTH item in the biblio that was AI imagination, I felt so betrayed. I let this student turn in the paper super late, I was so understanding, I looked forward to reading, and I got this.