Reddit reviews Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea (Routledge Studies in Popular Music)

Thank you! I tend to look at history as a whole picture, as events tend to not occur in a vacuum. I started doing that with researching what led to genocide and the long term consequences of it, but it also applies to stuff like K-Pop.

I don't know how much you're interested in K-Pop history, but if you want to do research, here are some resources that I use:

• Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea: Sounding Out K-Pop by Michael Fuhr
  
  • If you’re interested in learning about K-Pop from more of an academic view, this is a great book for that. This book even goes as far back as the late-1800s to explain how music in Korea changed after westerners started hanging around. It’s primarily written from a cultural anthropology view, but also goes into music theory. The only problem I had with it is the inaccurate information it states about H.O.T basics (that could easily have been checked on Wikipedia). Amazon is pretty much the only place you can get this book.
    
• Pop Goes Korea: Behind the Revolution in Movies, Music, and Internet Culture (2nd Edition) by Mark Russell
  
  • Informative book primarily about the history of movies and Chaebol companies in Korea. There are also interesting chapters about television and comics. Not the best source for learning about K-Pop, as the small section mainly just talked about Lee Soo-man. I also got this book from Amazon.
    
• KOFICE
  
  • Short for “Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange”, this site has a wealth of information about the Hallyu Wave. Most notably, it produces Global Hallyu Reports about how the Hallyu Wave effects Korea’s politics, economy, and cultural outreach.