To my boyfriend – Fin.K.L I wonder about the correlation of this early wave of K-pop coming out after the Asian Financial Crisis, and the explosive international success of K-pop after the Global Financial Crisis and Asia’s relative, moderate safety during the latter after the lessons learned of the former. And the music and the [...]
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To my boyfriend – Fin.K.L The genesis. Not alone, and there was teen-directed pop music in Korea before this, but Fin.K.L and other groups like them born from a similar time and similar commercial urgency were really the first wave of K-pop. And it so evidently was. It’s so amazing to see now how ingrained [...]
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