Crystal Anderson appeared on a brief segment on Talk Asia on CNN International on October 6.. She spoke about the reasons for the popularity of Psy, a Korean rapper who has gained international success with his video for “Gangnam Style.” She also discussed the future of K-pop in the United States.
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Crystal Anderson Talks Hallyu With ITYCRadio
Crystal Anderson spoke about Afro-Asian culture, K-pop and K-drama with Michelle Clark-McCrary, host of the podcast ITYCRadio, which can be found via ITYC (Is That Your Child). The podcast covers issues related to race and social justice. Listen to the entire podcast here.
Hallyu Harmony: Seo Taiji – President of Culture
Seo Taiji: President of Culture is the first digital essay for Hallyu Harmony: A Cultural History of K-pop. Pioneering a hybrid Korean popular music with global aspirations, Seo Taiji set the tone for contemporary K-pop through his fusion of multiple music genres with a Korean sensibility, global fan activity, and groundbreaking industry practices. These activities…
Am I Doing This Right?: Excavation of Korean Popular Music as Digital Humanities Project
Crystal S. Anderson, PhD Elon University I just finished my first digital essay, Seo Taiji: President of Culture, for my digital humanities project on the cultural history of Hallyu-era Korean popular music, 1992-2009. But as I continue to build this Omeka site and design the project, I wonder: Is my project a digital humanities project? What am I doing?…
Noona, Unnie, Oppa, Hyung: Research Shows Adults Like K-pop For The Music
Crystal S. Anderson, PhD Elon University Academic research suggests adults like K-pop for a variety of reasons, the chief of which is music. These findings complicate assumptions about the identity of international K-pop fans and their preferences. According to 638 responses among 18- to 30-year-olds from around the world, other top reasons include choreography and…
Korean Popular Culture in Digital Humanities
Crystal S. Anderson, PhD Elon University This past spring, I attended my first THATCamp at the University of Virginia. I was nervous. Although I’ve been a humanities person practically all my life, I was unsure if the collaborative projects I manage on Hallyu (Korean wave) popular culture on the Internet qualified as a digital humanities…
Oppa – Don’t Approve SOPA!
Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, M.S.L.S. University of South Carolina Lancaster By the time this post is published, Wikipedia (the English site) will not be accessible. That’s right, the place where you go to gather preliminary information on everything from the history of the letter “A” to breaking down the MBLAQ acronym will be blacked out on January…
KPK Goes To KPOPCON on January 28, 2012!!!
KPOPCON University of California, Berkeley 2:00-3:30 p.m. Hello Hallyu!: Kpop Fictions, Facts and Fans in the Global Academy KPK Presenters: Crystal S. Anderson, PhD, Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, M.S.L.S., Mark Jaehoon Byon, Kuylain Howard All Kpop fans are tweenage Asian girls. Idols are manufactured and have no talent. Male Kpop idols aren’t “real” men. Kpop music is unoriginal. It doesn’t…
Why Is KPK on YouTube?
As you probably know, KPK does Hallyu. Most international fans of Kpop and Kdrama access their Korean popular through the Internet in general, and YouTube in particular. We know that’s where you are watching Hello Baby and Happy Together! We go where fans go, so we’re now on YouTube! Check out the KPK Channel! Like…
Hallyu Survey Kpop Results (As of August 8, 2011)
We share our survey results periodically. As some of you may know, we received approval to lower the survey age to 16, so we have two sets of this time: Survey Results (18 and over) Hallyu Kpop Survey 1 Hallyu Kpop Survey 2 Survey Results (16 and over) Hallyu Kpop Survey 1 Hallyu Kpop…
KPK: Kpop Kollective 