The 1st SNU Graduate Workshop on Hallyu Studies
Date:
August 21 (Thursday), 2025
Venue:
Seoul National University
Session 01: The Auditory Dimension of Hallyu: Affective Resonance in K-pop Fanchant Culture and the K-pop Soundscape
Presenter: Naoko Takayanagi (Lund University)
Discussants: HaeKyung Um (University of Liverpool), YoungHan Cho (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
Session 02: Beyond Consumption: K-pop Fandom and the Emotional Architecture of Digital Youth Culture
Presenter: Flora Smit (Leiden University)
Discussants: Benjamin Han (University of Georgia), Lisa Yuk Ming Leung (Lingnan University)
Lunch Break
Session 03: Transculturing through Orchestrating Neural–Bodily–Worldly Skills through Translanguaging: Insights from Hallyu Fandom Concerts in the UK
Presenter: Alfred W. T. Lo (University of Oxford)
Discussants: HaeKyung Um (University of Liverpool), JuOak Kim (Texas A&M International University)
Session 04: Cross-cultural fandoms, food consumption, and shared intimacies: Reflections on eating “Korean” food as embodied parasocial experience among Hallyu fans in India
Presenter: Susrita Das (University of Copenhagen)
Discussants: JuOak Kim (Texas A&M International University), Lisa Yuk Ming Leung (Lingnan University)
Break
Session 05: “This is what it feels like to understand what you’re singing to”: Transcultural K-pop Fans’ Reception of AI Cover Songs
Presenters: Bonnie Yue Liang (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Tianyi Yang (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Ge Zhu (Renmin University of China)
Discussants: DalYong Jin (Simon Fraser University), Benjamin Han (University of Georgia)
Session 06: The Sonyŏ with the Lightstick: The Political Legibility of Girls in South Korea’s 2024 “Lightstick Revolution”
Presenter: Jinhee Kim (University of California)
Discussants: YoungHan Cho (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies), SoJeong Park (Hanyang University)