When my wife and I found ourselves with a long layover in Seoul, South Korea in early April, we assumed that we knew enough about the phenomenon of Korean popular music to go see the girl group IVE perform its Third Fan Concert at the KSPO Dome, the capital city’s 15,000-capacity Olypmic gymnastics arena.
We went into our crash course in K-pop curiosity expecting to find familiarity amid the inevitable differences. We left feeling bewildered and fascinated and alien, like unwitting impostors on the verge of being outed. At every step along the way, our evening at IVE’s Third Fan Concert in Seoul was a jarring reminder of the world’s vastness—of just how much we didn’t know.
Read the full story here.
Signed,
Two new IVE superfans.
—–
Table of Contents – Fear & Posing In Korea: A Crash Course In K-pop Curiosity
1. GETTING IN
2. CONCOURSE OF CURIOSITY
3. HELL YEAH, K-POP!
4. POSING
5. SPIRALING
6. SURFACING
7. FEAR
8. GETTING OUT
9. FRIED CHICKEN & FAMILIAR FACES
submitted by /u/contemplatingjazz
[link] [comments]
