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KPOP entertainment\u00a0industry\u00a0has attracted attention and gaining recognition worldwide. K-pop, or Korean pop music, includes dance-pop, pop ballads, techno, rock, hip-hop, R&B, and so on.<\/p>\n

First Korean singers appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 was the girl group called Wonder Girls in 2009. Wonder Girls gained recognition with the song \u201cNobody\u201d.<\/p>\n

In 2012, Psy\u2019s \u201cGangnam Style\u201d reached 3 billion views on YouTube and ranked No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Since the \u201dGangnam Style\u201d, the K-pop began to spread around the world.<\/p>\n

The worldwide success of \u201cGangnam Style\u201d was followed by a surge of K-pop boy group, BTS. BTS won multiple Top Social Artist awards at the Billboard Music Awards. BTS not only has a huge number of worldwide fans but also has contributed to global recognition of K-pop as a genre.<\/p>\n

Today, KPOP is increasingly globalizing its impact not only among their fan groups but also within their members; many groups are featuring collaboration with American pop singers as well as presenting members from other countries, notably Chinese, Taiwanese, and Thais.<\/p>\n

Books on KPOP (Available from U of I Library Catalog)<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Title: Globalization and popular music in South Korea : sounding out K-pop<\/a><\/p>\n

Located at:\u00a0Music and Performing Arts Library, ML3502.K6 F84 2016
\nISBN:\u00a09781138840010
\nPublication Date: 2016<\/p>\n

This book examines a vibrant example of contemporary popular music from the non-Anglophone world and provides deeper insight into the structure of popular music and the dynamics of cultural globalization through a combined set of ethnographic, musicological, and cultural analysis.<\/p>\n

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Title: The Birth of Korean Cool<\/a><\/p>\n

Located at: Main Stacks, DS923.23 .H66 2014
\nISBN: 9781250045119
\nPublication Date: 2014-08-05<\/p>\n

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Euny Hong writes about her own experiences of her adolescence in Seoul, about historical and current South Korean culture, and about the Korea\u2019s entertainment industry.<\/p>\n

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Title: K-Pop Live: fans, idols, and multimedia performance<\/a><\/p>\n

Located at: Music and Performing Arts Library, ML3502.K6 K577 2018
\nISBN: 9781503605039
\nPublication Date: 2018-08-07<\/p>\n

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In\u00a0K-pop Live, Suk-Young Kim investigates the meteoric ascent of Korean popular music in relation to the rise of personal technology and social media, situating a feverish cross-media partnership within the Korean historical context and broader questions about what it means to be “live” and “alive.”<\/p>\n

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Title: From factory girls to K-pop idol girls<\/a><\/p>\n

Located at: Music and Performing Arts Library, ML3502.K6 K5737 2019
\nISBN: 9781498548823
\nPublication Date: 2019<\/p>\n

Focusing on female idols’ proliferation in the South Korean popular music (K-pop) industry since the late 1990s, Gooyong Kim critically analyzes structural conditions of possibilities in contemporary popular music from production to consumption.<\/p>\n

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Title: K-pop: popular music, cultural amnesia, and economic innovation in South Korea<\/a> (Korean)<\/p>\n

Located at: Main Stacks,
\nISBN: 9791159053757
\nPublication Date: 2015\/transl. 2019<\/p>\n

K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea (Eng) <\/em><\/a>seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations.<\/p>\n

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Title: The Cambridge companion to K-pop<\/a><\/p>\n

Located at: Music and Performing Arts Library, ML3502.K6 C35 2023
\nISBN: 9781108837057
\nPublication Date: 2023<\/p>\n

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The Cambridge Companion to K-Pop\u00a0 investigates the meteoric ascent of K-pop against the backdrop of increasing global connectivity wherein a distinctive model of production and consumption is closely associated with creativity and futurity.<\/p>\n

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KPOP news websites<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n

There are websites dedicated in reporting news related to the Korean Entertainment\u00a0industry.<\/p>\n