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□ 행사명: 제205회 언론정보학 포럼/ 제33회 해외저명학자 초청 특강
□주제: Why Did BTS Boycott the Grammys? : The Politics of Categorization through A Transnational History of Korean and Japanese Popular Music
□ 발표자: Sungmin Kim (Hokkaido University)
□ 시간 및 장소: 9월 15일 (화) 12:30~14:00, IBK커뮤니케이션센터(64동) 501호
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□ 초록:
Popular culture does not simply cross borders; in transit, it is renamed, classified, and repositioned. My research examines how South Korea and Japan have perceived and categorized each other’s popular culture under conditions of postcoloniality, the Cold War, cultural prohibition and liberalization, and globalization. A Transnational History of Japanese and Korean Popular Music extends this inquiry across the post-1965 history of popular music. Rather than asking who “influenced” whom, this talk foregrounds categorization: how media, markets, industries, institutions, and discourse place circulating music within particular boundaries and hierarchies. It traces a history from hōgaku/yōgaku and “Korean enka” to J-Pop/K-Pop and today’s Pop/Asian Pop divide. BTS’s 2026 decision not to submit music for the 2027 Grammys, following the introduction of Best Asian Pop Music Performance, brings this history into a global frame. Who has the power to classify music, and which music can appear simply as “Pop” within global cultural circulation?
□ 연사 소개:
Sungmin Kim received his M.A. in Communication from Seoul National University and his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Information Studies from the University of Tokyo. He is Professor at the Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University. His research interests include media and cultural studies, the sociology of music, and the history of Japan–Korea relations. His books include Postwar South Korea and Japanese Culture and K-Pop: Media of New Sense. His recent book Nikkan Popyurā Ongakushi (『日韓ポピュラー音楽史』), published in Korean as 『한일 대중음악사』, received the Grand Prize at the 3rd Music Book Awards (音楽本大賞) in Japan in 2025. An English edition is forthcoming from Brill.