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YouTube Originals 'K-Pop Evolution' Nominated for Best Short Form Series @ 2022 IDA Documentary Awards
YouTube's 'K-Pop Evolution' Examines Rise of K-Pop, K-Pop Idol Life [MARCH 30th 2021] The new YouTube Originals series “K-Pop Evolution” will trace the rise of K-pop to global prominence. The seven-part English docuseries will kick off [April 1st 2021] Wednesday at 10 p.m., and a new episode will be uploaded each week. The show chronicles the growth of the now 10 billion dollar K-pop industry from its birth with Seo Taiji and Boys in the 1990s to its current global popularity. K-pop idols from different gen
K-Pop Evolution : A YouTube Original Docuseries Traces the Origin of Korea's Prime Cultural Export [MAY 23rd 2021] Certain Western observers of Korea wear their aversion to K-pop, or at least their pointed disinterest in it, as a badge of honor. From them I’ve heard the rise of K-pop credited with destroying Korean culture, or — somewhat more positively — with turning the Korean mainstream bland enough to give rise to a counterculture of correspondingly extreme marginality and transgression. But at this poi