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May 26 2022 Hallyu Kpop and Activism
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Learn more about the fascination with K-pop stars, the fandom and Korean culture with Dr. Cedarbough Saeji aka the K-pop professor, K-pop fan Emily, Young Adult K-pop author, Stephan Lee and moderator and lecturer Dr. Benjamin Cheung from UBC. • -- • The global K-pop phenomenon continues to grow with a majority of the fandom engaging in political discourse or viral hashtag domination on some level. This fun, diverse and respectful community celebrates everything Hallyu (aka the Korean wave around pop culture), where even Vancouver has become a popular backdrop location with the locally filmed video Likey, Likey by TWICE amassing over 500 million views. • CedarBough T. Saeji is an assistant professor in Korean and East Asian Studies in the Department of Global Studies, Busan National University. Saeji has previously held positions at Indiana University, University of British Columbia, Korea University, and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. A scholar of Korean performance who approaches issues from gender to cultural policy through examining everything from traditional mask dance dramas to the latest K-pop hits, Saeji's most recent publications are Thinking through Intertextuality in Korean Pop Music Videos in Translation Review and A Short History of Afro-Korean Music and Identity in Journal of World Popular Music (with Kim Kyung Hyun) and “From Hanok to Hanbok: Traditional Iconography in Korean Hip Hop Music Videos” in the Global Hip Hop Studies Journal. A book on invented tradition in Korea that Saeji co-edited was released in November. Saeji tweets @TheKpopProf. • Emily currently works in digital content and communications in tech, with a background in media studies and business management. She became a K-pop fan in 2009 through artists such as SHINee, SNSD, and Big Bang. Since becoming a BTS fan in 2013, she has dabbled into all sorts of fandom pastimes, including café events and photocard collecting, but her favourite will always be going to concerts in different countries. • Stephan Lee is a YA enthusiast, ardent K-pop fan, and journalist. He currently works as Senior Editor at Bustle after a five-year stretch covering books and movies at Entertainment Weekly. At EW, he traveled to Seoul for three weeks to write a feature about Korean entertainment’s world domination, interviewing K-pop idols Ailee, Tablo, and Tiffany Young of Girls Generation. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing at The New School. • Stephan's books K-pop Confidential and K-pop Revolution are on order at the VPL and e-Books are available now - https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/sear... • Dr. Benjamin Cheung is a Lecturer and Indigenous Initiatives Coordinator in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include scholarship of teaching and learning, service and experiential learning, cultural psychology, and student engagement. He was a huge k-pop fan during the initial hallyu in the early 2000’s and is familiar with social activism within the Asian Canadian context.
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