[KS] K-pop Student Research Workshop at OSU KPRP

[Pil Ho Kim]

The Korean Performance Research Program (KPRP) Student Research Workshop



*Sociomusicology of K-pop: Culture of (In)visibility*



*Date and time:* April 15, 2024 (Monday) 9:30am-5:30pm (Eastern Time)

*Venue:* Hagerty Hall 259 at The Ohio State University and online on Zoom



The Christopher Lee Korean Performance Research Program at The Ohio State
University is proud to present its first Student Research Workshop on
K-pop. Although many think of K-Pop as a genre performed by Korean idol
dance music artists, they often overlook the ever expanding cultural,
linguistic, ethnic, and musical boundaries of K-Pop. In this workshop, we
will explore many interesting social and musical issues related to the
culture of K-pop, such as the increasing multiethnicity of performers, the
interconnection between hip-hop and K-pop, the issues of abuse,
exploitation, and discrimination in the Korean entertainment industry, and
the social activism of K-pop fandom.

It is a hybrid in-person and online event that is open to the public. The
conference presenters come from two groups of students. One is a diverse
group of graduate students who have a dissertation/thesis/publication
project on K-pop, and the other group is graduate and undergraduate
students from OSU who are currently taking a BTAA Korean e-School course on
K-pop. This conference is made possible by the generous support of the
Korea Foundation BTAA e-School Program, and OSU’s Department of East Asian
Languages and Literatures, Institute for Korean Studies, and East Asian
Studies Center.



PROGRAM


9:30am  Opening Remarks

*9:45am   Invited Graduate Student Session: Visibility and Invisibility in
K-pop*

Rita Rongyi Lin (Northwestern University) “Invisible Skin: K-pop and
Vernacular Blackness in Global Circulation”
So Yoon Lee (University of Chicago) “Becoming a K-pop Producer: Vocational
Training and Cultural Production in South Korea’s Popular Music Industry”
Seulbin Han (Duke University) “The Hidden Players: An Analysis of Diasporic
K-Pop Consumer Groups in the U.S.”
Franchesca Ulloa (University of California, Berkeley)  “Between Screens and
Courtrooms: Following the Exclusive Contract Issues in K-Pop and How
Fandoms Respond”

Discussants: Dr. Pil Ho Kim (OSU) and Dr. Ildong Joe (Academy of Korean
Studies)

11:45am   Coffee break

*12:00pm  Keynote Lecture: Dr. Grace Kao (Professor of Sociology, Yale
University) *

“Sunmi as ‘Heroine, Gashina, and Siren’: How a Former Member of the K-Pop
Group The *Wonder Girls *Developed *Sunmi-Pop*”

1:00 pm           Lunch Break

*2:00pm   OSU Undergraduate Session: From Hip-hop to K-pop*

Laci Kuhlwein, “Bringing Hip-Hop to K-pop: How Asian-Americans Transformed
the K-pop Industry”
Christian Williams, “K-pop in the Club: Observing the Influence of Jersey
Club Music within Charting K-pop Hits”
Bhada Han, “Make it Loud, Your Inner Voice: Wearing the Korean Dragon Lady
in Lim Kim’s ‘YELLOW’”

Discussant: Dr. Wonseok Lee (Washington University in St. Louis)

3:30pm            Coffee break

*3:40pm   OSU Graduate/Undergraduate Session: The Sociology of K-pop Idols*

Kiya Brown, Milan Caldwell, Elise Conrad, “Multiracial Idols in K-pop: The
Treatment of ‘Mixed’ Idols in the K-pop Industry”
Carina Geissler, “K-pop Trainees: Crushed Hopes and Wasted Years: Is It
Worth the Risk?”
Michiko Kubota, “Collecting as ‘Restoration:’ BTS RM Putting Korean
Modernism Back on the Map”

Discussant: Dr. Grace Kao (Yale University)

5:10pm            Closing Remarks
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