Kpop Essay

arrangement of parts of music were not even noticed by many. Unlike the audiences of other performances, most of the audiences of the recital were young. Perhaps this shows that classics still have a long way to move the shadows of some new genres like Kpop, pop, or…

Sisterhood Royalty was the name of my high school dance team. As a new member, each of us got paired up with an older girl on the team called a Royalty Sister. A Royalty Sister was someone who helped the new member on the team, invested in gifts to one another on special occasions, and to have a supportive friend on the team. Aqsa was my Royalty sister. She was loud and silly, but she never talked to anyone. I didn’t understand why I got paired up with Aqsa. She wasn’t my ideal friend at least…

Sohmin Shin Ms. Cain English 101 September 14, 2016 Born, Not Raised "When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable." --- Clifton Fadiman Our value in life comes from our life experiences. I was supposed to grow up in a small, countryside of Korea. My biological father and my mother finalize a divorce and I find myself making a home in America. I traveled the world at a young age, it was not my…

Second Reading Review: Topic 9: Morley, D. “Globalisation and Cultural Imperialism Reconsidered: Old Questions in New Guises” From Curran, J. and Morley, D. (Eds) Media and Cultural Theory. New York, Routledge, 2006, pgs. 30-43. Cultural imperialism occurs when one country’s media products dominate the rest of the world, instead of a mutual exchange of media content, often contributing to diminishing local media industry, and therefore a diminished local culture. Morley examines and evaluates…

Tri An Nguyen Mrs. Cordes AP English 24 April 2015 Cultural Globalization Today in the modern era exist a diverse amount of music around the world. Each nations and tribes has their own form of music culture developed over centuries. However, as the times passes by, the Age of Imperialism begins affecting a vast amount of countries as European countries and eventually, America take part in this period attempting to colonize underdeveloped locations and obtain its resources for their own use.…

flower-like boys interestingly displays feelings of female dominance. Compared to in Western culture, K-pop female fans have the ability to actively imagine a scenario in which they are the more powerful one in the relationship. A 2017 Youtube video “Kpop Idols Being Aegyo” has generated over 235,000 views, with user comments like “They make me die and die over again” or “Why am I watching handsome, cute and famous Korean men acting cute and I think it’s not weird. But when it comes to…

on students’ physiological function, such as diminishing stress hormone level. Music acts as a medication because it helps the students to relax their mind and body (Novotney, 2013). For example, students in Malaysia like to download their favourite Kpop songs from the application store so they are able to listen to their favourite song anytime. Next, students can catch up with their close friends. Nowadays, they will choose coffee shop to enjoy their tea-time session. Eating cakes and drinking…

Kara Chang is a fourth year Communication Studies major double minoring in Education and LGBT Studies. I first interviewed her while at the Revelations Dinner for the Alpha family. Kara is a member of the Alphaholics Line, and she is one of Jeremy Gozzip’s seven littles. She is also the pledgemom for my Big, Stella. She pledged Alpha Lambda and served as the Plexcomm Historian. During Alpha Mu, she was a PAC Leader. All of these things were working up towards being Alpha Nu Pledge Parent, which…

possibilities that come and go quickly, many of us fail to recognize how, sometimes, even the most common everyday conversations reveal how simplistic life may actually be. “Finals are killing me, I’m dying so hard on the inside right now.” or “I live for KPOP because like...Lee Jinki and Victoria Song are literally perfection. ” are examples of phrases that any person would use as a way of self expression. Then there are other ways life is brought up as topics of conversation such as sources of…

The public perception of South Korea can vary from its popular song Gangnam style, the Kpop scene/idols, or maybe even its staple food kimchi. My heritage as a second generation Korean American has made me experience all sorts of comments and questions about my culture numerous times. Many of my Korean friends are also in the same position as me, or they were born in South Korea and moved to the U.S.A when they were children. Whenever someone in my group of Korean friends, talk about Korea we…