We discussed his inspirations for the film, his meticulous choice of music, the current state of LGBTQ+ and North Korean refugee rights in Korean society, and his future projects. Special thanks to director Park Joon-ho, our department (LCAL), Korean Studies@CMU, and KF for making this possible! 🙂
Had the honor of hosting a screening of 3670 (2025) by director Park Joon-ho, who very kindly joined us for a Q&A afterward; despite the early timing.
Vancouver! 🇨🇦
Ready for @asianstudies.org #AAS2026
Reminder that our panel is on Sat 14, 2PM (hottest time of the day 🤣) in VCC303.
Really enjoyed sharing with JoySauce my thoughts about K-pop concerts and their pricing system! joysauce.com/how-exorbita...
AAS2026 is already around the corner!
If you have some time on Saturday (March 14) at 2:00 pm.
Please join us in Room 303 of the Vancouver Convention Center for our panel: "K-pop Fandom(s) and Authenticity: When Fans Control the Narrative."
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Taking advantage of the Spring Break to redesign my personal website. There is a blog section, so maybe I'll write on it? I don't know, hehe. mathberbi.com
Happy New Year, everyone 🥰 새해 복 많이
받으세요! Bonne année 🫶
Hope that this account will be more active in 2026.
Hahahaha same for me 🤣 We will never know why I was supposed to know the dates of this conference, but I will be even more vigilant with the listserv emails 😅
Yes I do! I had limited space for my poster so I chose 4 groups from different companies and similar debut periods :)
And that’s a wrap for AAS2025! I had so much fun (re)connecting with so many people. Special thanks to those who showed up at my poster presentation, took pictures and asked questions 🥰
I had perfect examples 😆
When I started my Ph. D., every time I’d buy a K-pop album or something K-pop related, I’d keep some of the inclusions for “when I have my office.” The time has come. 🤓
Finished my first semester as a professor the best way 😂 [not included: students singing along while I play the 노래방 version from TJ]
Please consider signing the statement.
I knew it was going to be Enhypen first but I’m surprised at RIIZE in second haha ☺️
Emphasizing once again that if you’re following me with the hope that I livetweet about Korean politics, you will be disappointed. However, I am passing along this statement calling for the resignation of Yoon Suk Yeol – mainly for Academic / Researchers based in the U.S.
forms.gle/H6Md1jDawM98...
Same for me. 😅
If you're following me to get more news on Korea's martial law, you can unfollow me because I don't know what the shit is going on and you should be looking at official news outlets
It’s now socially acceptable to start listening to EXO’s Christmas playlist again ☺️
K-pop has this very interesting thing on me that I called the "delayed addiction." Basically, I have the first listen of a song, I hate it, and then weeks after, I listen to it again and I get addicted to it... Happening right now with GGUM by Yeonjun and Love, Money and Fame from SEVENTEEN. lol
Of course!! Please do so ☺️☺️
Told you 😌
YESSSSS can’t wait to read about it ☺️
Crying because I think I'm getting the opposite of cancelled on (the other app) because I talked about Seunghan in my presentation at Yale...
TFW the ticketing for NCT127 is during a department meeting 🥲 {as if it would prevent me from getting tickets muaha}
Had so much fun in Yale ☺️ It was so nice to catch up with friends, meet new others and to be intellectually energized by all the wonderful presentations. Thank you so much, Prof. Grace Kao, Dr. Wonseok Lee and all the staff of CEAS, for your work!
Picture showing an airport tarmac in PIT
두근 두근 👀
How pleasant it is to see a clean timeline without stupid bots or evil propaganda!
Poster of the K-pop Production and Consumption Conference at Yale University (November 14-15)
So excited to fly to New Haven tomorrow! Finally visiting my first Ivy League 🥹