The boom of South Korean pop (K-pop) originally expanded to few Asian countries in mid-1990s; however, in early twenty first century, it has gained global popularity in the twinkling of an eye. The latest BTS – a Korean idol group which consists seven boys - got the first place on America’s Billboard album chart (Dal and Lee, 2019). It was also for the first time to get that record as Asian music stars. The announce means BTS got international fame...
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The Golden Era of K-pop debatably started from 2008-2012, which was the second generation of K-pop, which started when TVXQ! debuted in 2003 with the song ‘Hug’. It’s called the Golden Era because the second-generation groups like TVXQ!, Super Junior, Wonder Girls, BIGBANG, Girls’ Generation, SHINee, F(X), APink, Infinite, 2PM, KARA, etc. popularized K-pop and made it a trend overseas showcasing their Korean vibe in their music. This was the time when ‘fan-wars’ had no meaning and everyone knew the...
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The K-pop industry is a music industry like any other industry in the world. It produces groups and artists who dream of singing and dancing on stage in South Korea. The K-pop industry is a rough industry for artists and aspiring artists. It produces the highest quality and production of content. The export of K-pop has made the K-pop industry worth five billion dollars. It’s a term known as Hallyu, which is the spread of the Korean wave or Korean...
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If we were to travel 15 years back, who would have thought that South Korean music industry or otherwise known as K-pop would rise to become one of the world’s leading recorded music industries. With worldwide fanbases, statistics have shown that South Korea succeeded on becoming the sixth largest global music businesses in 2017. Needless to say, the total streaming revenue on 2013 reached up to $89.78m. These findings lead us to one concrete question – ‘How do K-pop music...
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Just like society, music will experience evolution. Said evolution may manifest itself through factors such as the ability for the world to be globally connected. Through this inevitable evolution and connectivity, the loss of cultural meaning may be a consequential factor for some genres of music, however, this may not reign true for all genres. The possibility for redefinition or emphasis of cultural facets within music is still achievable. Pop music is generalized category which includes music that adheres to...
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K-pop is a type of music originating in South Korea. Korea pop music is influenced by styles and genres from around the world. For example, jazz, hip-hop, country classical are all K-pop roots. K-pop idol culture began with the boy band H.O.T. in 1996. In 2003 TVXQ and BOA started a new generation of K-pop idols. Now as for development, not only in East Asia and Southeast Asia, but also in India, Latin America, North Africa, the Middle East and...
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K-pop (short for Korean pop) is a genre of popular music which originated from South Korea. It is influenced by styles and genres from around the world, such as rock, jazz, gospel, hip hop, R&B, reggae, electronic dance, folk, country, and classical on top of its traditional Korean music roots. However, K-pop as we know it today has evolved into a cocktail including Korean music, fashion style, and dance to capture the imagination of Korean youth. K-pop has begun to...
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For my paper, I have chosen to focus on South Korean popular music. The genre of South Korean music I am very interested in learning more about is the K-pop genre, primarily because I noticed how big it has become in recent years. Interestingly, I discovered that you can actually trail and follow the origin of the K-pop genre all the way back to the late 19th century, more specifically around the year 1885. This is when Henry Appenzeller, known...
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K-pop is a genre of popular music originated from South Korea. It is basically a musical genre that consists of an assortment of other genres such as electronic, hip-hop, rock and R&B music. First and foremost, in this essay I'm going to talk about the birth of K-pop and how K-pop has been steadily building into a global phenomenon. In addition, to talk about what goes behind the scenes in the K-pop industry. And finally, to talk about people’s perspective...
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The rise of K-pop in the global music industry has been recognized by mass media with abundant coverages about K-pop has become a global phenomenon and sensation from media in every corner of the world. As reference, based on world google search trends, in these past 5 years from the scale 0-100, the search average for the word 'BTS' is 22, compared to the words 'One Direction' with 2 and the words 'Ariana Grande' with 7. It is now well...
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Cultural proximity is the notion that if an audience does not have access to their own local or national media content, then they will be led to consuming media production from their regional neighbors. The term has been mostly used to describe the appeal of foreign and domestic media in an international context. (Berg 2017) However, the concept of cultural proximity becomes inadequate to explain contemporary global media flows in that it neglects the presence of other proximities other than...
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Introduction K-pop is a genre of music that originated in South Korea. While its earliest form dates back to the 90s, with Seo Taiji and the Boys, this industry doubled its growth rate in the mid-2000s in the Korean and international markets as well. During these years the concept of idols grew with the genre itself and became a representative of it. Many different groups such as H.O.T., TVXQ, and BoA were created at the time and started the tradition...
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The song Euphoria is a song from the Album BTS - Love Yourself ‘Answer’. In Verse 1, the lyrics “You are the sunlight that rose again in my life” means that this person is being compared to the sun, this individual allows him to see more clearly his dreams and goals because this person is able to make him forget the darkness which once troubled him. “A reincarnation of my childhood dreams” this states that our narrator knew the same...
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