[KS] AKS workshop: Internationalizing Korean Popular Music Research

[Pil Ho Kim]

Apologies for the last-minute announcement:

*Internationalizing Korean Popular music Research and Exploring Directions
for Its Further Development*

10am-5pm KST | 1-8am GMT, Friday August 7, 2026

The Academy of Korean Studies, B107 and on Zoom (hybrid)
https://us05web.zoom.us/j/83253847631?pwd=iSQvavFjKZtURiSLiHElDw4pKKXGhU.1

*Opening Remarks*: Keewoong Lee (Sungkonghoe University)

*Session 1 *(10:10-11:20 KST) Chair: Pil Ho Kim (Ohio State University)

Donna Kwon (University of Kentucky) "Navigating Global Sonic Imaginaries In
K-Pop: Auto-Tune, Vocoder, and Singing the Posthuman in the Music of ATEEZ”

Peter Moody (Stony Brook University) "Reformed Folk, Reinvigorated: North
Korean National Music in the 21st Century“

Sunhong Kim (University of Michigan) "Popularizing Transhistorical Arirang:
>From Early Korean Sojourners’ Ararang in 1896 to BTS's Arirang"

*Session 2* (11:30-12:40 KST) Chair: Hyunseok Kwon (Hanyang University)

Ethan Waddell (University of Colorado) “The Dialectic of Control and
Memory: On Writing the Musical Past in Post-liberation Korea”

Susan Hwang (UC Santa Barbara) “From Romance to Resistance: Kim Min-ki and
the Making of Student Protest Culture”

Janghee Son (Ritsumeikan University) "'연락선은 떠난다(연락선의 노래)'가 노정시킨 전후 일본 의 기억의
균열" Fissures in Postwar Japanese Memory Revealed by the Song 'The Ferry
Departs'

*Session 3* (14:00-15:30 KST) Chair: Il-dong Cho (AKS)

CedarBough Saeji (Pusan National University) “New Sounds in an Old Place:
Remaking the Meaning of Korean Palaces through K-pop”

Jeonghwan Shin (Sungkyunkwan University) “1960년대 이후 한국 대중음악 잡지와 대중음악론의 향방:
담론적 재구성과 이론의 갱신을 위하여” Korean Popular Music Magazines and the Trajectory of
Popular Music Discourse since the 1960s: Toward Discursive Reconstruction
and Theoretical Renewal

Jonghyun Park (Korea World Music Center) "소리, 공간, 연행, 혹은 사람으로서 "7080": 장르
기호의 사(史)적 접근“ '7080' as a Genre-sign of Space, Sound, Performance, and
People: An Anthropological Approach

Ildong Cho (AKS) “1980년대 트로트, 전자악기, 카세트테이프, 그리고 경부 고속도로: 기술-문화-산업의 얽힘”
Trot, Electronic Instruments, Cassette Tapes, and the Gyeongbu Expressway:
Changes in Technoculture and Social Infrastructure, and Their Impact on
Korean Popular Music Genres, Industry, and Labor

*General Discussion* (15:40-17:00 KST)
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