K-Pop Live: Fans, Idols, And Multimedia Performance by Suk-Young Kim

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The 1990s South Korea saw the transition from a military dictatorship to a civilian government, from a manufacturing economy to a postindustrial hub, and from a cloistered society to a more dynamic transnational juncture.

These seismic shifts in culture had a profound impact on the media industry and the rise of K-pop!

In K-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."