01 Nov IKSU GUEST LECTURE SERIES: Beauty and the Waste: Fashioning Idols and the Ethics of Recycling in Korean Pop Music Videos.

Join us for this exciting talk led by Professor Suk-Young Kim that will examine K-pop’s double entendre as both a seminal player in and a critic of the fashion industry by comparing two highly influential music videos – G-Dragon’s “Crooked” (2013) and BTS’s “Spring Day” (2017) that comment on the contemporary fashion practices of quick accumulation and disposal.

The Korean pop music (K-pop) scene in recent years has become a fashion powerhouse where its highly visible stars exert tremendous influence on their fans’ fashion practices. As K-pop content is most frequently consumed on YouTube, K-pop music videos have come to be cybernetic runway shows, whetting the fan’s appetite for endless fashion consumption.

About the speaker:

Suk-Young Kim is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies and the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and External engagement at UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film, and Television. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work primarily focuses on unearthing the historical roots of today’s popular culture. Her commentary on Korean politics and media have been featured in major media outlets, such as Billboard, CNN,NPR, NYT, WSJ, and her opinion pieces have been published by the Los Angeles Times and NBC.

Wednesday 6 November 2024

ABLT4, Adelphi Building at UCLan

2.00 – 4.00 pm