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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)

Languages: English and Korean (auto-translation on Zoom)

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)