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8 - From K-Pop to Z-Pop

The Pan-Asian Production, Consumption, and Circulation of Idols

from Part IV - The Making of Idols

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2023

Suk-Young Kim
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University of California, Los Angeles
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As an industry situated between globalization and transnationalism, K-pop has become a “glocal” economic transaction that re-localizes the regional markets across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Because K-pop’s glocal enterprise was made possible due to the internet via smartphones, social networks, and user-generated media, some scholars in Southeast Asia have noted K-pop’s major players as new forces of cultural imperialism. With Z-Pop Dream as a case study, this chapter explores how K-pop’s lesser known producers respond to such criticisms by experimenting beyond K-pop’s established system of idol production, consumption, and circulation. Part audition reality show and part idol management system, Z-Pop Dream is a multinational venture that recruits trainees in Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines. Accordingly, its fan consumer base is also from the seven countries. Piggybacking on K-pop’s transnational success, Z-Pop Dream sells their business model as the next step to making K-pop more accessible to non-Korean fans, cover dancers, and trainees dreaming of becoming idols. Examining how Z-Pop Dream ’s new glocal business model informs, interacts with, or resists an established transnational rhetoric of K-pop, this chapter explores how its rhetoric of “One Asia” underscores the line between national and transnational.

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Print publication year: 2023

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Ainslie, Mary J.Korean Overseas Investment and Soft Power: Hallyu in Laos.” Korea Journal 56/3 (2016): 532.Google Scholar
Ainslie, Mary J., Lipura, Sarah Domingo, and Lim, Joanne B. Y.. “Understanding the Hallyu Backlash in Southeast Asia: A Case Study of Consumers in Thailand, Malaysia and Philippines.” Kritika Kultura 28 (2017): 6391.Google Scholar
Kim, Suk-Young. “Disastrously Creative: K-Pop, Virtual Nation, and the Rebirth of Culture Technology.” TDR: The Drama Review 64/1 (2020): 2235.Google Scholar
Shin, Solee I.How K-Pop Went Global: Digitization and the Market-Making of Korean Entertainment Houses.” In Lee, S. Heijin, Mehta, Monika, and Robert Ji-Song, Ku (eds.), Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea, 268281. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019.Google Scholar
Yoon, Soo Ryon. “‘Gangnam Style’ in Dhaka and Inter-Asian Refraction.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 19/2 (2018): 162179.Google Scholar

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  • From K-Pop to Z-Pop
  • Edited by Suk-Young Kim, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to K-Pop
  • Online publication: 02 March 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108938075.013
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  • From K-Pop to Z-Pop
  • Edited by Suk-Young Kim, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to K-Pop
  • Online publication: 02 March 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108938075.013
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  • From K-Pop to Z-Pop
  • Edited by Suk-Young Kim, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to K-Pop
  • Online publication: 02 March 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108938075.013
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