KOR 3610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Seo Taiji, K-Pop, Super Junior
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K-pop success: due to their cultural and geographical affiliation with the larger asian (or inter-asian) cultural system. It was established and dominated by japan, india, and china reduces the entire korean music industry to a mimetic machine copying western or japanese pop culture. Global dissemination of musical contents through sns (youtube, facebook, twitter etc) K-pop = a unique system of the global division of labor for a creation of a new korea-led system of manufacturing creativity. Definition: a new korean popular music genre for export [oh and park 2012] K-pop dates back to 1992 with the debut of seo taiji and boys and their new genre of hip-pop dance music. Their performance of hayeoga in japan was unsuccessful. K-pop is the most successful in japan (kpop is the 2nd largest popular music market. Since 1998, k-pop has been massively exported to china, japan, southeast asia, america, and europe.
