RADIKAAL
RADIKAAL is a DIY podcast about the radical aspects of music, politics, and sports. Each episode, host Cas Mudde interviews one guest about a specific topic for about 30 minutes. Guests include academics, athletes, journalists, musicians, and politicians. In short, this is a podcast about fascists, punks, and ultras.
RADIKAAL
33. Gooyong Kim on Economics, Gender, and Soft Power of K-Pop
•
RADIKAAL
•
Season 2
•
Episode 6
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
My guest today is Gooyong Kim, Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Cheney University of Pennsylvania. He has published extensively on various aspects of K-Pop, the topic of today’s podcast, including his book “From Factory Girls to K-Pop Idol Girls: Cultural Politics of Developmentalism, Patriarchy, and Neoliberalism in South Korea's Popular Music Industry”, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2018. We talk about the economics, gender, and soft power of K-Pop.