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This text uses interviews with K-Pop industry personnel, media experts, critics, and fans as well as archival research to explore how the K-Pop industry manages to sell live music events in a marketplace where everything is available online.

"For people all across the world, this concept of using food as a communication medium is now, as it is for ARMY, one method of connecting with one another’s cultures."

Jungkook's comeback interview for the BE album.

Jin's comeback interview for the BE album.

A chapter in "Hanguk Hip Hop" that considers the idea of the "idol rapper." The author examines BTS, American Hustle Life, and RM's dual identity as an idol and rapper, arguing that "'conditional authenticity' becomes an urgent and vital requisite for idol rappers, where authenticity is assumed as non-existent or minimal."