The cultural appropriation become less common in Korean pop music, as the aesthetic of trending concepts drifts to a more retro and futuristic. The idols tends to portray their visual style with a way to shape the own characteristics instead of make use of other elements like African-American.

For such a change, I think is the public controversy on the issue of female idol being portrayed too sexy in the music video. I remember a few years ago, when some girl groups released the mv with the costumes that was too explicit and the dance movements is over sexualised their body, the video was

The narrative of masculinity about idol groups is not really can be defined as denying their masculinity, as discussed in the class that Kpop do indicate aesthetics by portraying male idols by putting up make-up on them or even implying some concepts that is shaped their image to a more emasculate

The reason why K-pop is adding English lyrics is because of cultural hybridization. As mixing languages in the lyrics tends to express some of the political context through English (Jin and Ryoo 2012, 114). And also on the other aspects, adding English lyrics is representing the cultural hybrids

Government supports their own cultural industries like in Hong Kong, the government provides “Film Development Fund” to support the production of local Cantonese films. This funding actually helps Hong Kong film to distribute and promote in mainland China. From 2007 to 2018, there are 46 films

The founder of #YGE Yang Hyunsuk, after the debut of SeoTaiji and Boys, he has a solo debut and hence become a music producer. He said that he no longer goes on stage after his solo activities and realised from then on that he was more suited to be a producer than a singer.

The trot singer Song Ga-in was known as the winner of “Jin” from the reality show Miss Trot. Her number of streaming on the music platform Melon first got 10 million in 2019, hence hit 40 million within one year. She also runs nationwide in 2019 joining different events to perform. Song was

The role of idol star are having more responsibilities towards fans, somehow the tight relations between fans and idol making female fans getting more power to criticize idol. More personal stuffs like smoking and have relationship with others are not acceptable for female fans in a moral aspect.

From the story of Kim in 1970s, the censorship by the government does shapes musician’s sense of self-censorship like the lyrics would be consider as the tools of propaganda. And actually music is easy to spread widely, the history of this dark period shapes people’s definition of “proper music”.

The issue is about the member Hong Seunghan of removing him from the group RIIZE, people are arguing whether the photo of his private relationship was a matter or not. Fandoms of Western fans and Chinese fans stands a different point of view, like the Western fans don’t think it is a big deal to

The singer Jo Yongpil #조용필 debuting since 1968, he is one of the influential artists in Korea that his song ”Bounce” was selected as Song of the Year in 2013. He was the first Korean artist to held concert at Carnegie hall in NewYork which marks the significant success of his career of being

Nationalism is the valuable element within the community, public are very sensitive about the national issues especially for the foreign members of idol groups from Japan. The deep rooted nationalism sense from the past years makes people more considerate about their nation like idols in Korea is

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From the video, the vocal performers wear sunglasses when performing and instruments performers sitting at the back playing traditional instruments like Daegeum, Gayageum, Geomungo. The melody was not like the traditional one, they composed the song in a more modern style.

Actually idol groups do contains the process of standardise training, and some of the style or concepts that idols follow just simply follow the trends after debut. It forces most of the idol groups are having similar images and look factory-made.