{"id":17669,"date":"2024-05-20T02:06:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T02:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/?p=17669"},"modified":"2024-05-20T02:06:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T02:06:40","slug":"sunmi-as-heroine-gashina-and-siren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/sunmi-as-heroine-gashina-and-siren\/","title":{"rendered":"[CHS Special Lecture] Sunmi as \u201cHeroine, Gashina, and Siren\u201d: How a Former Member of the K-Pop Group The Wonder Girls Developed Sunmi-Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240529_poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17670 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240529_poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1191\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240529_poster.png 1191w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240529_poster-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240529_poster-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240529_poster-1024x724.png 1024w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240529_poster-160x113.png 160w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240529_poster-400x283.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 99vw, (max-width: 900px) 98vw, 876px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Date: <\/strong>May 29th, Wednesday, 2024, 14:00 &#8211; 15:30<\/li>\n<li><b>Location:<\/b> Room 304, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<p>Korean Pop Music or K-Pop that is most familiar to non-Korean audiences is primarily comprised of idol groups. The individuality of members is subsumed under the group\u2019s identity, and it can be a challenge for members to emerge and build their own brand. In this article, I focus on Sunmi (\uc120\ubbf8), a member of the second-generation girl group Wonder Girls. After the group\u2019s debut in 2007, she later learned how to play an instrument, became a songwriter and producer, and developed her own subgenre (endearingly known as \u2018Sunmi-Pop\u2019). Not only that, her discography actively confronts the multiplicity of personas that is required of the life of an idol. I argue that Sunmi has no parallel among female K-Pop idols, and her biography informs previous work about the potential feminist possibilities that girl groups (from the Motown Era, for instance) can bring. Western scholarship has largely ignored K-Pop in its theorizing of popular music more generally. When researchers focus on K-Pop, they largely do so in isolation rather than as an example of popular music more broadly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: May 29th, Wednesday, 2024, 14:00 &#8211; 15:30 Location: Room 304, SNUAC (Bldg. 101) Korean Pop Music or K-Pop that is most familiar to non-Korean audiences is primarily comprised of idol groups. The individuality of members is subsumed under the group\u2019s identity, and it can be a challenge for members to emerge and build their own brand. In this article, I focus on Sunmi (\uc120\ubbf8), a member of the second-generation girl group Wonder Girls. After the group\u2019s debut in 2007, she later learned how to play an instrument, became a songwriter and producer, and developed her own subgenre (endearingly known as \u2018Sunmi-Pop\u2019). Not only that, her discography actively confronts the multiplicity of personas that is required of the life of an idol. I argue that Sunmi has no parallel among female K-Pop idols, and her biography informs previous work about&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17669","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\/17669","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=17669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17671,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17669\/revisions\/17671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}