The Globalization of K-Pop

Bibliographic Research Plan

The Globalization of K-Pop

Ellie Eunah Kim LIS 601 / Professor Vanessa Irvin

Fall 2015 / December 15, 2015

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Table of Contents

I. Introduction -------------------------------------------------------- 3

i. Topic -------------------------------------------------------- 3 ii. Scope & Audience ----------------------------------------- 3 iii. Citation Style & Coding Key --------------------------------- 3

II. Search Strategy -------------------------------------------------------- 4

i. Call Numbers ------------------------------------------------- 4 ii. Subject Headings ----------------------------------------- 4 iii. Search Terms ------------------------------------------------- 5

III. Search Process --------------------------------------------------------- 5

i. OPACs --------------------------------------------------------- 5 ii. Databases & Indexes ----------------------------------------- 6 iii. Web Resources ------------------------------------------------- 8

IV. Conclusion

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V. Bibliography --------------------------------------------------------- 10

VI. Appendix I - Annotated Bibliography -------------------------- 12

i. K-pop and Internet ----------------------------------------- 12 ii. K-pop in the West ----------------------------------------- 13

VII. Appendix II - Search terms relevancy chart ------------------ 13

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I. INTRODUCTION

Topic

We are witnessing that K-pop has become a global phenomenon. In December 10, this year, a media released an article, "Korea's GOT7 is the world's most talked about pop group on Twitter after One Direction".1 It is amazing that this Korean idol group, its members only speak and sing in Korean language, has world-wide popularity. Also, we can see that K-pop stars' videos are marking the highest views in YouTube, and they sell their concert tickets very quickly all around the world.

The first decade of the twenty-first century had brought the Korean Wave, an inundation of South Korean soap opera that covered much of Asia. Now K-pop (some dubbed it Korean Wave 2.0) was the visible form and froth of South Korean popular culture, washing ashore across Asia, the Pacific, and beyond.2In this research, I would like to focus on the current globalization of K-pop. Especially, this plan will provide sources on two subtopics, "K-pop and Internet" and "K-pop in the West". I chose these topics because Internet is a key for understanding K-pop's becoming global trend. Also, K-pop has been popular for a quiet long time in Asia, but the popularity in the West is pretty recent situation. So, "K-pop in the West" would be an interesting topic for my target audience and also would give a big picture of the globalization of K-pop these days.

Scope & Audience

Hawaii has huge population that is interested in Korean culture and K-pop. In Hawaii, there is a radio station only play K-pop, and many K-pop stars visited Hawaii for various events. To match the demand, the University of Hawaii also offers variety of Korean culture, Korean language classes. My target audience is young students in Hawaii who want to gain deep, academic knowledge on K-pop. I used University of Hawaii Libraries' and Hawaii State Public Libraries' resources for this research. Naturally, I used UH Voyager catalog mainly because it might be the search engine that the UH students would use when they conduct their own searches. Also, for non-UH students, I used WorldCat. The bibliography contains academic, but not too professional sources as well as nonacademic sources for undergraduate-level, teenage students.

Citation Style & Coding Key

I used the Chicago Style citation for this project, as directed by The Chicago Manual of Style3. The cording key I used is explained in Appendix A. I put subject heading controlled vocabulary (CV) and Boolean search terms (i.e. AND, NOT, OR) in ALL CAPS, and put natural language in lowercase.

1 "Korea's GOT7 is the world's most talked about pop group on Twitter after One Direction," The Straits Times, December 10, 2015, accessed December, 10, 2015, . 2 Lie, John, K-Pop (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014), 3. 3 University of Chicago Press Staff, The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010)

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II. Search Strategy

Call Numbers

I used WorldCat, OCLC Connexion, Library of Congress Catalog, and Library of Congress Classification Web for finding call numbers. For Dewey Decimal numbers, I used DDC22 (Dewey Decimal Classification, Edition 22).

LC Call Number

? DS904 History of Asia - Korea - Social life and customs. Civilization. Intellectual life

? DS916.27 History of Asia - Korea - History - By period - 20th century - Social life and customs. Civilization. Intellectual life

? KPA1170 Asia (South Asia. Southeast Asia. East Asia): Korea. South Korea - General

? ML3502.K6 Korea (South) - General Work

? ML3790 Literature on music - Music trade

? P94.65 Philology. Linguistics - Communication. Mass media - Special aspects - Relation to culture. Intercultural communication

Dewey Decimal Classification Number

? 300 301 Social Science - Sociology and anthropology

? 327 Political Science - International relations

? 780 Music

? 781.63 Popular music

? 951.95 History of Asia - Orient - Far East - Korea - South Korea (Republic of Korea)

Subject Headings

I used WorldCat, OCLC Connexion, and print version of Library of Congress Subject Headings.

? POPULAR MUSIC - KOREA (SOUTH) - HISTORY AND CRITICISM ? POPULAR MUSIC - ECONOMIC ASPECTS - KOREA (SOUTH)

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? POPULAR MUSIC -SOCIAL ASPECTS - KOREA (SOUTH) ? MUSIC AND GLOBELIZATION - KOREA (SOUTH) ? MUSIC TRADE - KOREA (SOUTH) ? POPULAR CULTURE - KOREAN INFLUENCES ? CURTURAL INDUSTRIES - KOREA (SOUTH)

Search Terms

As I mentioned above, in this bibliography plan, controlled vocabulary (CV) terms and Boolean search terms (i.e. AND, OR, NOT) are written in ALL CAPS. Natural language (NL) terms are written in lower case. Also, exact phrases are put in quotations. An asterisk (*) or a question mark (?) are used for truncation or stemming.

? Search Terms: Korea, K-pop, Korean pop music, internet, west, SNS, Social Network Service, west, abroad, globalization, foreign, social media, America

? Boolean Expressions: k-pop AND internet, k-pop AND globalization, k-pop AND west, k-pop AND west NOT language, (k-pop OR korean pop) OR forei?, (k-pop OR korean pop) AND (internet OR sns OR social media?)

? Natural language: K-pop in internet, K-pop in the west, SNS and K-pop

III. Search Process

OPACs

? Hawai'i Voyager: Libraries of the University of Hawai'i System

Since I know that UH Voyager Catalog contains accurate subject headings in each record, I started my search with controlled vocabularies. When I put POPULAR MUSIC - KOREA (SOUTH) in subject search window, I found six results under the term. It was surprising that this subject heading only brought six results. Other subject headings such as POPULAR MUSIC - ECONOMIC ASPECTS - KOREA (SOUTH) or POPULAR MUSIC -SOCIAL ASPECTS - KOREA (SOUTH) and other subject headings only produces one to three results.

Since UH has rich resources on East Asian culture, I thought that changing search strategy would produce better results. So, I tried keyword search. For my first subtopic "K-pop and internet", I first put "internet AND k-pop", but it only brought just four results. I removed hyphen between k and pop. "internet AND k pop" produced 33 results. I put "internet AND "korean pop"", and it produced two. I removed quotations and it produced 11. "k pop AND sns" failed to produce results, but "k pop AND social media" produced 20. I tried "(k-pop OR korean pop) AND (internet OR sns OR social network?)" and it brought just six, but the results were the closest to my topic.

I found that keyword search is better than subject search in Voyager, so I decided to use keyword search for my second subtopic. In my first search, I could find that the keyword "k pop" worked better than "k-pop" or "korean pop". So I put "k pop AND west", and it produced 21 results. I tried "k pop AND America", and surprisingly it brought better, 32, results. I realized that using specific name of region would help the search. Next, I used "k pop AND global?" and it produced 43 results.

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