After K-Pop’s Big Week, What Comes Next?

K-Pop is certainly having a moment as far as its Stateside popularity goes, but will South Korean pop music’s recent surge in popularity in the US translate to more than just flash in the pan, and develop into longterm sustainable popularity? ___________________________ Guest post by David Deal of Superhype K-pop…

Scandals, ‘Toxic Masculinity’ Threaten Future Of K-Pop

New scandals in South Korea that cast doubt on K-Pop stars, K-Pop culture and a male chauvinist and sexist South Korean culture in general, could halt the genre’s recent hugely successful drive into other countries. So says an expose by CNN that looked not only at the scandals involving K-Pop…

‘Gangnam Style’ Singer PSY Implicated In South Korean Corruption Scandal

‘Gangnam Style’ rapper PSY is now being implicated in a worsening South Korean corruption scandal.  Here are the potentially damaging associations coming to light. One of South Korea’s greatest cultural exports may have been implicated in a broad-reaching corruption network, according to details now coming to light.  The associations are surfacing alongside the ouster of president Park […]

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