{"id":16438,"date":"2023-05-15T02:20:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T02:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/?p=16438"},"modified":"2023-05-15T04:18:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T04:18:53","slug":"beyond-the-age-of-k-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2023\/05\/15\/beyond-the-age-of-k-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Age of K-Pop: Post-BTS and the Future of K-Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2023\/05\/15\/beyond-the-age-of-k-pop\/20230525_poster\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16439\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16439 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230525_poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"842\" height=\"1191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230525_poster.png 842w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230525_poster-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230525_poster-768x1086.png 768w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230525_poster-724x1024.png 724w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230525_poster-400x566.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 842px) 99vw, 842px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Date:<\/strong>\u00a0May 26th, Friday, 2023, 12:00 &#8211; 13:40<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Online via Zoom<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Presenter: Gyu Tag Lee (Associate Professor, George Mason University-Korea)<br \/>\nDiscussants: Keewoong Lee (Sungkonghoe University), Dongjoon Lee (Seoul National University)<br \/>\nModerator: Sojeong Park (The Center for Hallyu Studies, SNUAC)<\/p>\n<p>From BTS&#8217; announcement of hiatus to HYBE chairperson Si-hyuk Bang&#8217;s claim that &#8216;K-Pop is in crisis,&#8217; there are worrying voices about K-Pop&#8217;s decline after seemingly reaching its peak with the highest sales ever in 2022. However, some refer to the emergence of\u00a0\u00a0&#8216;4th generation K-Pop&#8217; artists who have continued to make it big after 2020 as an example that the future of K-Pop is not all that grim.\u00a0 Is K-Pop, having achieved such enormous success in the global market with its hybridity of the local &#8216;K&#8217; and global &#8216;Pop&#8217;, in crisis due to that nature? Or will K-Pop, as it has until now, adapt to the new media and cultural environment of the new era and evolve yet again? In K-Pop&#8217;s new transition era, we survey K-Pop&#8217;s developmental process, the current state, and the future through three books in a series on K-Pop: <em>The K-Pop Age<\/em> (2016), <em>K, Pop in Conflict<\/em> (2020), and <em>Poetry for Z<\/em> (2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date:\u00a0May 26th, Friday, 2023, 12:00 &#8211; 13:40 Online via Zoom Presenter: Gyu Tag Lee (Associate Professor, George Mason University-Korea) Discussants: Keewoong Lee (Sungkonghoe University), Dongjoon Lee (Seoul National University) Moderator: Sojeong Park (The Center for Hallyu Studies, SNUAC) From BTS&#8217; announcement of hiatus to HYBE chairperson Si-hyuk Bang&#8217;s claim that &#8216;K-Pop is in crisis,&#8217; there are worrying voices about K-Pop&#8217;s decline after seemingly reaching its peak with the highest sales ever in 2022. However, some refer to the emergence of\u00a0\u00a0&#8216;4th generation K-Pop&#8217; artists who have continued to make it big after 2020 as an example that the future of K-Pop is not all that grim.\u00a0 Is K-Pop, having achieved such enormous success in the global market with its hybridity of the local &#8216;K&#8217; and global &#8216;Pop&#8217;, in crisis due to that nature? Or will K-Pop, as it has until now,&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16447,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16438\/revisions\/16447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}