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Blocked by @wilwheaton.net within 10 min after posting this lol

There is so much you can do for your country rather than whining and blocking people on social media.

Such fragile white male ego lol

The entitlement here is astounding.
1. Why are you relying on "the rest of the world" to say enough? At what point do Americans say enough?
2. When has America ever listened to "the rest of the world"?
3. This is such typical white people shit. Clean up your own mess.

Mommy is busy

And many thanks for letting me stay at the Lowrey Guest House at Pebble Hill, a charming and cozy cottage right in front of Auburn University! 🏡💚

Many thanks to Auburn Oil Booksellers, a wonderful independent bookstore, for hosting an event for my K-Pop Fandom book! And my biggest thanks to Dr. Sam James who organized my entire visit and made my stay in Auburn so memorable! 🫶🏻📚💚

Many thanks to Auburn University's Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for Arts & Humanities and the Korea Center-King Sejong Institute for hosting me! I had a wonderful time meeting Auburn faculty and students! 🫶🏻🐅🦅

아이고 ㅠㅠ 어머니 쾌차하시길 기도할게요!

Happy reading!

Tune in to Popular Music Books In Process today at 5:30p ET for a conversation between @areum.bsky.social and Samantha James about Areum's new book, K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today. All biases welcome!

Schedule link: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

Documenting, representing, and remembering the Jeju 4.3 in Korean theatre and performance The Jeju 4.3 was an instance of state-sponsored violence led by right-wing South Korean politicians, the U.S. military, and rebels, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of Jeju residents fr...

My article, "Documenting, representing, and remembering the Jeju 4.3 in Korean theatre and performance," has just been published in Theatre Research International. 🌺

50 free eprints are available via:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IGR4J...

Post from Julia Fine that says, "Write the book you want to read because you will have to read it 75 times."

#writerslife

“Even an Angel Would Smell Like Grilled Meat When Burnt in a Fire”: Lee Heejoo's Holy Boy - Words Without Borders "Lee's prose wields Angela Carter’s baroque Gothic sensuality and Ottessa Moshfegh’s deadpan brutality," writes critic Yoojung Chun.

“Lee doesn’t moralize about fandom. She simply asks: What if we took these women seriously?”

ALTA member Yooj Chun reflects on K-Pop, fandom, and power in Lee Heejoo’s HOLY BOY, translated from Korean by Joheun Lee. At WWB: buff.ly/x6rBJjc

Next week! 🙌🏻 @asianstudies.org

Next week! 🙌🏻 @asianstudies.org

CFP: Sounding Things: Props, Material Culture, and Accessories in Popular Music

Abstract Deadline: May 1, 2026
Abstract Length: 350–500 words
Editors: Kate Galloway, Paxton Haven, and Mike Levine

Full call here: drive.google.com/file/d/1mfyd...

Promotional graphic for K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today by Areum Jeong. The book cover appears on the left, showing a green-lit K-pop concert scene with a large crowd and stage lights; the title is in bold neon-green text. On the right, a pull quote reads, “Smart and immersive, this is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the passions and practices of K-Pop fandom.” — Matt Hills. The University of Michigan Press logo appears at the bottom.

Just published!
"K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today"
More than mere obsession: Areum Jeong studies #K-pop fandom, showing how “#deokhu” fan labour drives its global reach, politics, and cultural impact.
Discover now: bit.ly/46Ty35e
@uofmpress.bsky.social

This Thursday! 🙌🏻

Honored to talk about my K-Pop Fandom book at 5:30 pm EST, March 4 (Wed), via the Popular Music Books in Process series, a collaboration between the Journal of Popular Music Studies, the Pop Conference, and IASPM-US. 🙌🏻
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

Graphic promoting new books in February: "K-Pop Fandom" by Areum Jeong (top left), "The Photographic Fix" by Justin Court (top right), "Robert Altman's Nashville" by Justin Wyatt (bottom left), "The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society" by Mujun Zhou (bottom right).

Graphic promoting new books in February: "Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World" edited by Charles A. Laughlin & Li Guo (top left), "Icon Dresden" by Susanne Vees-Gulani (top middle), "Interlingual Relations" edited by Mauro Jose Caraccioli & Einar Wigen (top right), "The Subtlety of the Street" by M. Peregrine Balmat (bottom left), "Fundamentals of Curriculum Planning, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation in English Language Teaching" by Eman Elturki (bottom middle), "Posting for Power" by Jeremy Gelman & Steven Lloyd Wilson (bottom middle), "Homebodies" by L. Archer Porter (bottom right)

Missed any of our February releases? Check out our latest publications this month and grab a copy here: buff.ly/pKmnWWK

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Book, "K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today," by Areum Jeong. Cover shows the stage at TY Track concert and an Neobong lightstick.

This just arrived through my door. I'm excited to read the new book by @areum.bsky.social I've been waiting for this one. The cover is so neo! 💚

Thank you! 🥹💚

Registration for New Directions in K-Pop Studies Date: 8 April 2026 (Wednesday) Time: 3:00pm - 6:30pm Venue: M6094 Future Cinema Studio, L6, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong This symposium will be held on-site in pers...

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Many thanks to Prof. Sangjoon Lee for the kind invitation. Looking forward to meeting everyone in Hong Kong! 🙌🏻

지난주 생일이었는데 출장 중이어서
뒤늦게 셀프 미역국 + 친구가 보내준 생선 😄💚

Cover of The Minjung Art Movement: Decolonization and Democracy in South Korea by Sohl Lee. The cover is a duotone of teal green and a berry red. A crowd is gathered with their arms wrapped around each other. In the background hung on a building is an art piece showing two figures and text in Korean. The title is in a bold white sans serif font aligned left. The subtitle is directly below in yellow. The author's name appears in the upper right corner.

In "The Minjung Art Movement," Sohl Lee traces how the South Korean movement of the 1970s and 1980s forged decolonial protest aesthetics that helped galvanize democratization and why its practices continue to resonate today. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/LkDZnlQ

A book cover for HOLY BOY above a dark blue background, overlaid in white text it reads: BOOK REVIEW “The complexity of the women’s entanglements, grudging camaraderie blossoming into blood-splattered friendships, refracts the raw reality of fan dynamics through a thriller’s magnifying glass.” “‘Even an Angel Would Smell Like Grilled Meat When Burnt in a Fire’: Lee Heejoo’s Holy Boy” by Yooj Chun

Yooj Chun reviews Lee Heejo’s novel HOLY BOY (tr. Joheun Lee), questioning the ways capitalist society channels the passion of young women into consumer driven fandom consumption.

Read “'Even an Angel Would Smell Like Grilled Meat When Burnt in a Fire": wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

South Korean citizens have been recommended as candidates for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for their collective resistance to former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s imposition of martial law on Dec. 3, 2024.⁠
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www.koreaherald.com/article/1067...

It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.