Pop Junctions: Reflections on Entertainment, Pop Culture, Activism, Media Literacy, Fandom and More

Today I want to share the foreword I wrote for a new book, Female Universalism: Gender, Melancholia, and Radical Empathy in the Korean Wave. I have gotten to know Ingyu Oh, the book’s primary author, through a series of Hallyu related events, most recently a forum he organized around K-Pop Demon Hunters here in Los Angeles. In what follows, I provide some overview of...