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The Christopher Lee Korean Performance Research Program (KPRP) 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.

The workshop 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.