K-Pop Fandom
K-Pop Fandom insists that K-pop fan practices and activities constitute a central productive force, shaping not only K-pop’s explosive global popularity, but also K-pop’s cultural impacts, politics, and horizons of possibility. Over the past three decades, the K-pop fandom and its activities have ex...
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| description | K-Pop Fandom insists that K-pop fan practices and activities constitute a central productive force, shaping not only K-pop’s explosive global popularity, but also K-pop’s cultural impacts, politics, and horizons of possibility. Over the past three decades, the K-pop fandom and its activities have expanded, intensified, and diversified along myriad dimensions, assuming novel social, technological, and economic forms, some of which are unique to K-pop, and some of which reflect broader cultural and industrial logics of globalized mass entertainment culture. Areum Jeong argues that K-pop fans, in performing deokhu —a Korean term connoting an “avid fan”—perform a materialization of affective labor that also seeks to produce good relationships between asymmetrically positioned actors in the K-pop ecosystem. Through an autoethnography of becoming a K-pop deokhu , Jeong connects their experiences to generations of K-pop fans, showing simultaneously how fandom practices have shifted over time and the intricacies of fan labor participation. This personal connection paved the way for participant-observation and co-performer witnessing methodologies in the study, which crucially allowed for collaborating with fans whose communal pursuits have been stigmatized by dominant discourses that denigrate their activities as solely addictive, uncritical, and wasteful. Jeong’s genre-spanning corpus of fan activities and analyzing its contexts and contents represents an important contribution to the making of a fan archive that is also an archive of affective labor. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1736142026-03-19T13:24:51Z K-Pop Fandom Jeong, Areum Affective labor Fan culture Fan labor Fan studies Fan video Fandom Hallyu Idol-fan relationship Idol culture Idol fan culture Idol fandom culture Idol fandom K-pop autograph K-pop cupsleeve K-pop exile K-pop fan culture K-pop fan labor K-pop fan studies K-pop fan video K-pop fandom K-pop fansign K-pop idol K-pop photocard K-pop research K-pop streaming K-pop studies K-pop unboxing K-pop voting K-pop Korean popular culture Korean wave Parasocial relationship thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies K-Pop Fandom insists that K-pop fan practices and activities constitute a central productive force, shaping not only K-pop’s explosive global popularity, but also K-pop’s cultural impacts, politics, and horizons of possibility. Over the past three decades, the K-pop fandom and its activities have expanded, intensified, and diversified along myriad dimensions, assuming novel social, technological, and economic forms, some of which are unique to K-pop, and some of which reflect broader cultural and industrial logics of globalized mass entertainment culture. Areum Jeong argues that K-pop fans, in performing deokhu —a Korean term connoting an “avid fan”—perform a materialization of affective labor that also seeks to produce good relationships between asymmetrically positioned actors in the K-pop ecosystem. Through an autoethnography of becoming a K-pop deokhu , Jeong connects their experiences to generations of K-pop fans, showing simultaneously how fandom practices have shifted over time and the intricacies of fan labor participation. This personal connection paved the way for participant-observation and co-performer witnessing methodologies in the study, which crucially allowed for collaborating with fans whose communal pursuits have been stigmatized by dominant discourses that denigrate their activities as solely addictive, uncritical, and wasteful. Jeong’s genre-spanning corpus of fan activities and analyzing its contexts and contents represents an important contribution to the making of a fan archive that is also an archive of affective labor. 2026-03-19T13:24:50Z 2026-03-19T13:24:50Z 2026-03-16T16:13:44Z 2026 book ONIX_20260316T122833_9780472905652_14 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/111730 9780472905652 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/173614 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/111730/1/9780472905652.pdf Michigan State University Press University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.12903806 10.3998/mpub.12903806 aa7f6664-5117-41d8-90f8-c3af56526b92 9780472905652 University of Michigan Press 176 open access |
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| topic | Affective labor Fan culture Fan labor Fan studies Fan video Fandom Hallyu Idol-fan relationship Idol culture Idol fan culture Idol fandom culture Idol fandom K-pop autograph K-pop cupsleeve K-pop exile K-pop fan culture K-pop fan labor K-pop fan studies K-pop fan video K-pop fandom K-pop fansign K-pop idol K-pop photocard K-pop research K-pop streaming K-pop studies K-pop unboxing K-pop voting K-pop Korean popular culture Korean wave Parasocial relationship thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies |
| topic_facet | Affective labor Fan culture Fan labor Fan studies Fan video Fandom Hallyu Idol-fan relationship Idol culture Idol fan culture Idol fandom culture Idol fandom K-pop autograph K-pop cupsleeve K-pop exile K-pop fan culture K-pop fan labor K-pop fan studies K-pop fan video K-pop fandom K-pop fansign K-pop idol K-pop photocard K-pop research K-pop streaming K-pop studies K-pop unboxing K-pop voting K-pop Korean popular culture Korean wave Parasocial relationship thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies |
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