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Quick Hit: Consent is STILL Sexy

May 5, 2014, 8:33 pm
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(Source: Heal Yourself, Skeletor) I’m just sick of Bora’s boobs. Okay…no, not really. They’re just a constant reminder of the curse of blogging about sexuality and popular culture. Thanks to them, “Consent is Sexy: SISTAR, slut-shaming, and sexual objectification in the Korean idol system” is literally my most viewed post—but also, per view, probably one […]
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내가 제일 잘 나가~

June 23, 2014, 3:59 am
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No heavy analysis today folks. Just a fancam video of a performance by 2NE1 this morning. Because they were awesome: See here, here, and here for photos of the event, and here for my breakdown of the lyrics to the song. I can’t believe it’s been out for three years already! Filed under: Girl Groups, […]
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Korea’s Celebrity Obsession, Part 1: The numbers

August 7, 2014, 6:03 am
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(Source: Jennifer Sundt, @Tomorrowland. Reproduced with permission) You know there’s a lot of celebrities in Korean ads. It’s probably why you recognize so many of them, even if you hate K-pop and Korean dramas. For something so integral to the Korean media-cultural landscape though, it’s surprising that no-one seems to have worked out just how […]
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Quick Hit: Harassment Framed as Affection

September 15, 2014, 2:50 am
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(Dummy Harassment by gaelx; CC BY-SA 2.0) Via The Korea Herald: Former National Assembly Speaker Park Hee-tae is to be questioned over allegations of molesting a golf caddie, police said Saturday… …Park admitted that there had been some physical contact, but maintained that he did not “cross a line.” He told a local daily that […]
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Presentation, Yonsei University, Friday 12th: “Give it to Me? The Impact of K-Pop’s Sexualization on Korean Advertising”

December 10, 2014, 3:43 am
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(Source: *cough* Ilbe) The reason I’ve been so busy in recent weeks, and unable to properly reply to all your comments and tweets sorry. But, I’m happy to finally announce I’ll be presenting in the 2014 Situations International Conference, “Culture and Commerce in the Traditional, Modern and Contemporary Asian Music Industries” this Friday at 3pm, […]
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Korea and the World: My Podcast Interview

January 7, 2015, 3:00 am
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(Source: Danny Choo; CC BY-SA 2.0) “Korea’s entertainment industry has become extremely popular abroad and conveys the image of a modern and attractive country. Watch any K-Pop video and you see plenty of skin and sexiness; but look into Korean culture as a whole, and you witness the dominance of traditional values. Does the way […]
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“Sexy Concepts with James Turnbull”

February 9, 2015, 1:30 am
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(Source) Ahem. But really, they’re just a very small part of my July interview with Colin Marshall for the Notebook on Cities and Culture podcast, where we also discuss: …what Westerners find so unappealing about Korean plastic surgery; the associations of the “double eyelids” so often surgically created; why he used to believe that Koreans […]
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Listen to This Korean Girl’s Perspective on Korean Men’s Absurd Body-Image Standards

May 2, 2015, 5:00 am
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(Source: YouTube. See there for her secret method!) Remember my last post on assessing celebrities’ impact on Korean body-image standards? Where I stressed that it was crucial to listen to what ordinary Koreans thought of them? I’m going to start with 여신왕쥬 (Goddess Wang-ju), who doesn’t mince words about what impact they’ve had on her. […]
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Guest Post: So JYP Wants to Know Who My Mama Is

June 8, 2015, 1:38 am
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For those of you who watched the music video of JYP’s latest hit, Who’s Your Mama, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. The entire song is a tribute to big booties. When I first read the song title, I immediately remembered Will.i.Am’s song, I Got It From My Mama, which—surprise, surprise—is also a worship […]
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Two Must-Listens About Korean Popular Culture

June 15, 2015, 3:30 am
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(Source: The Korea Society) First up, I wouldn’t usually make an announcement about an event in far-off New York, but I have no hesitation in making an exception for friend and fellow Korean Popular Culture Reader contributor Dr. Olga Fedorenko, who’s lecturing at the Korea Society on Tuesday evening. As the FB event page and […]
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Addicted to Feminist Media Criticism Monday

July 13, 2015, 5:39 am
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In which I almost get carried away with my narratives about body-image and the Korean media—but discover an amazing role model instead. (Source: SBS) Remember My Ear’s Candy by Baek Ji-young, featuring 2PM’s Ok Taec-yeon? It was one of the songs that made me fall in love with K-pop, way back in 2010: And I’m […]
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Call for Papers: The 3rd World Congress for Hallyu

August 31, 2015, 2:35 am
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I’ve been asked to pass on the following: From the accompanying email (slightly edited by me): …I am emailing on behalf of WAHS to inform you of an upcoming international conference in Dubai on Hallyu Studies. The conference, World Congress on Hallyu, is the third of its kind and aims to bring together academics, students, and […]
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Screening Tomorrow: Our Nation: A Korean Punk Rock Community (2002) and Us & Them: Korean Indie Rock in a K-pop World (2014)

October 16, 2015, 2:11 am
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Via the event’s Facebook page: Please join our screening on Saturday 17th October. We will be showing two short documentaries about the Korean indie and punk rock music scene. Producer Stephen Epstein will be there to introduce the documentaries and take part in a Question and Answer session after the screening. This is your chance […]
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Turning Boys Into Men? Girl-groups and the Performance of Gender for South Korean Conscripts, Part 1

November 22, 2015, 9:30 pm
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(Sources: Left, Big Forehead Kisses; Right, 병무청 Twitter. The heading reads, “Thank you for choosing [to join] the military [early],” the subheading, “You are Korea’s real men.”) What could be more Korean than girl-group members in high heels and camo one-pieces, blossoming with aegyo for their big, strong oppas doing their military service? What else […]
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One Size Fits All in South Korea, As Long as That Size Is Small

December 21, 2015, 1:40 am
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(“Une illustration pour cet article sur le site d’Urbania.” Source: Pierre-Nicolas Riou, via Illustration-ilustración) Sorry for the slow posting everyone: exploring some interesting side-possibilities revealed after embarking on last month’s project, I tumbled headlong into an aegyo-filled labyrinth, from which I’ve only just emerged. (Also, I’ve been grading.) Rather than present the treasures I’ve discovered […]
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Korean Lolita Nationalism: It’s a thing, and this is how it works

May 2, 2016, 2:50 am
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Once upon a time, it would have been considered strange, even shocking to have a 16 year-old girl do a “sexy dance” for a phone commercial. That cardboard cut-outs of her on every corner would present her body for our constant inspection, their text wantonly inviting us to come inside if we wished to see […]
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Watching SPICA’s “Tonight” is an Awesome Teaching Moment About the Male Gaze. Here’s Why.

June 27, 2016, 2:45 am
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Tonight has been interpreted as an uplifting, carefree song about female friendship, maybe even about a lesbian awakening. So why is the MV soo male-gazey? (All screenshot sources: Youtube) Introduction: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Spica Released in August 2013, Tonight by Spica is the perfect short summer song. It’s fun, breezy, and […]
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Watching SPICA’s “Tonight” is an Awesome Teaching Moment About the Male Gaze. Here’s Why. (Part 2 of 3)

July 19, 2016, 1:52 am
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(Source: Unknown) “The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and unchanging and incapable. It’s patriarchy that says men have animalistic instincts and just can’t stop themselves from harassing and assaulting. It’s patriarchy that says men can only be attracted by certain qualities, can only have particular kinds of responses, can […]
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Watching SPICA’s “Tonight” is an Awesome Teaching Moment About the Male Gaze. Here’s Why. (Part 3 of 3)

July 27, 2016, 3:30 am
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Tonight is a strikingly sensuous MV about a time of freedom and female friendship. But to what extent is it undermined or enhanced by its many erotic moments? To what extent are those just plain sexual objectification? (Source: 미선씨의 위대한 하루 시즌2) Time to answer the big questions that have been on your mind since […]
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Radio Interview on Korean Feminism and the Media, Tonight at 7:30

August 11, 2016, 1:09 am
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At 7:30 tonight, I’ll be briefly appearing on Inside Out Busan at Busan e-FM, to talk about Korean feminism and the media. Please tune in if you can, and feel free to ask me here to expand upon or clarify anything I mention in the interview. I’ll also post a link to a download once […]
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