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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Dear all, please note the following Korean studies talks. Everyone welcome. Best, Karin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">WHY DO K-POP FANS HATE PSY'S 'GANGNAM STYLE'?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Keith Howard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">SOAS, University of London<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">In 2012, ‘Gangnam Style’ occasioned large flash mobs, three of the early ones taking place in Pasadena, Times Square in New York, and Sydney, Australia. Today, Psy, the singer
 of ‘Gangnam Style’, is regularly talked about as having brought K-pop to the world beyond East and Southeast Asia, and Korean tourism chiefs are actively planning a Korean Wave street in Gangnam, the district of Seoul lampooned by the song. But, ‘Gangnam Style’
 has proved challenging to K-pop fans, who have resisted its gender stereotyping, its comic framing, and its simple dance moves that subsume the aesthetics of movement under a sequence of locations and action vignettes. At the same time, foreign success has
 given the song, and its singer, legitimacy in Korea — so much so that, despite lyrics and video images that critique modern urban life and caricature the misogynistic failures of its protagonist, Psy headlined the inauguration celebrations of Korea’s incoming
 president, Park Geun-hye, in February 2013. This paper explores the song, its reception and critique by fans and others, and notes how, in an ultimate paradox that reflects the age of social media and the individualization of consumerism, the parodies the
 song spawned across the globe enabled Koreans to celebrate its success while ignoring its message.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Professor Keith Howard is Professor of Music at SOAS, University of London. Formerly Professor and Associate Dean at the University of Sydney, and has held visiting professorships
 at Monash University, Ewha Women’s University and Hanguk University of Foreign Studies. He has written or edited 20 books, including SamulNori: Korean Percussion for a Contemporary World (2015), Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice
 in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions (2012,) Singing the Kyrgyz Manas (with Saparbek Kasmambetov, 2011), and Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave (2006). Over the last 30 years, he has published more than 150 academic articles and 180 book/music reviews,
 as well as writing for many newspapers and journals including The Times, The Telegraph, Times Education Supplement, Korea Herald, Korea Times, Readers Digest, Koreana, and Morning Calm. He has been a regular broadcaster on Korean affairs for BBC, ITV, Sky,
 NBC and others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Friday 10th March  2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Location: University of Copenhagen, Karen Blixens vej 4, Islands Brygge metro<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Free entry, all welcome.  For any questions contact Karin Jacobsen:  cmt457@hum.ku.dk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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