• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.49-50
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• 2019

2018년 11월 '리그 오브 레전드' S8 파이널 폐막식장에서 Riot Games회사는 홀로그래픽 기술을 이용하여 디지털 K/DA 걸 그룹과 리얼 걸 그룹 멤버들과 함께 K/DA의 데뷔 앨범 타이틀곡 'POP/STARS'를 제작하였다. 디지털 캐릭터는 VOCALOID 기술 및 창작자의 디자인에 기반을 두지만, 디지털콘텐츠로써의 가치는 UCC 컨버전스를 통해 기존 콘텐츠의 영역을 확장하여 디지털 캐릭터의 생명력과 활용성을 확대하였다. UCC에 기반을 둔 디지털 캐릭터는 주요한 정보 기여자와 소비자가 콘텐츠를 제작함으로써 그 영역이 확대되고 있다. 이에 본 연구에는 디지털 캐릭터 콘셉트를 이용한 K/DA 걸 그룹의 캐릭터의 특성을 살펴보고, UCC를 바탕으로 K/DA 걸 그룹 데뷔 이래 뉴스, OSMU의 특성, 디지털 캐릭터의 가용성을 중심으로 사용자의 캐릭터에 대한 역할을 분석하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.27-28
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• 2019

본 연구는 국내 아이돌 그룹중 3세대 걸 그룹의 리듬 분석을 중점으로 한다. 장르의 발전과 리듬의 융복합은 계속 되어지고 있고 그에따라 학술적 연구의 필요가 있다. 따라서 3세대 걸 그룹의 리듬 분석으로 도출된 결과를 분석하여 리듬의 기원과 파생형태에 대하여 분석하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.137-150
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• 2014

This study has two major purposes. First, this research empirically tests whether there are the impacts of the third-person effects on individuals' perceptions of the girl groups' suggestive performance. The second purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between the perceptual biased toward the influences of the girl groups's suggestive performances and the supports for regulation. For this purpose, this paper investigated individuals' perception of different degrees to which the suggestive performance has influences on three dissimilar groups including 'the self', 'colleagues' and 'the others' and how they affect supports for regulation. An online survey was administrated on 305 people who have watched the girl groups' lasciviousness performance for data gathering. The collected data were analyzed with t-test, multiple and hierarchical regression. The results showed that there are significant differences in perceptions of the effect of suggestive performance on three groups including 'the self', 'colleagues' and 'the others'. The findings also revealed that the perception of the effects of lasciviousness performance on 'the others' is one of the strongest predictors for the supports for regulation. The implications of these results were also discussed.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.63-71
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• 2020

K-Pop is powerful. Once considered to be at the periphery of global music scene, it is now reaching the whole world. Not surprisingly, the media, domestic and foreign, have scrambled to unlock the secrets of K-Pop's phenomenal growth. In doing so, they have not failed to highlight the underside of its success, such as cut-throat competition among idol-group members and the programmed member replacement by their agencies. One of the most notable characteristics in this process is called, in their business jargon, 'the graduation system'. This paper attempts to explicate this management practice unique to K-pop industry. To do so, this paper draws on Rene Girard's work on desires, particularly his notion of mimesis, violence and the scapegoat mechanism. Based on a documentary film, interactive online sites and a monograph that have chronicled how the K-pop girl group <9 Muses> have 'graduated' during their debut process, this paper applies, as its main analytical tool, the scapegoat mechanism and attempts to explore on its basis what 'the system' entails for the K-pop industry in general and the actors working within it in particular.

• Journal of Platform Technology
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.12-23
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• 2023

In the 2020s, the K-Pop market has been dominated by girl groups over boy groups and the fourth generation over the third generation. This paper presents methods and results on lyric clustering to investigate whether the generation of girl groups has started to change. We collected meta-information data for 1469 songs of 47 groups released from 2013 to 2022 and classified them into lyric information and non-lyric meta-information and quantified them respectively. The lyrics information was preprocessed by applying word-translation frequency vectorization based on previous studies and then selecting only the top vector values. Non-lyric meta-information was preprocessed and applied with One-Hot Encoding to reduce the bias of using only lyric information and show better clustering results. The clustering performance on the preprocessed data is 129%, 45% higher for Spherical K-Means' Silhouette Score and Calinski-Harabasz Score, respectively, compared to Hierarchical Clustering. This paper is expected to contribute to the study of Korean popular song development and girl group lyrics analysis and clustering.

• 발명특허
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• v.36 no.12
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• pp.47-49
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• 2011

• Journal of Popular Narrative
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.9-37
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• 2020

The present study examines the transnational "Hallyu" (the Korean wave) phenomenon after the 1990s in the context of a solidarity movement of East Asian women. It also focuses on the passion for the world stage given the cultural industry was supported by the government as a "chimney-less factory" during the IMF financial crisis. Over the past twenty years and through Hallyu 1.0, Hallyu 2.0, and Hallyu 3.0, "K-entertainment" has been advocated, as a concept that encompasses K-drama, K-pop, etc. in the cultural industry. Furthermore, everything Korean, through K-culture, is being put at the forefront. However, there is insufficient discussion regarding the actions of the women who led the Korean wave. This paper examines the female fans and girl groups who played leading roles in the rise of popular culture and its transnational prominence within the context of the female agency and female labor involved. The lack of acknowledgment of their roles is linked to the current erasure of the discussion on the female youth. Discussion on "woman" is still limited to the domain of reproduction in the generational discussion that has replaced the existing nation-state or class led discussions in the current era of neoliberalism. However, since The reboot or the popularity of feminism in recent years, the interest in the female narrative, in works such as 'Kim Ji-young, Born 1982' has been expanding beyond East Asia to the rest of the world. Just as Hallyu was created by women in the beginning, there is a new trend in which women across national borders are joining in solidarity. As such, the present study attempts to prove that the female fan, girl group, and female youths must be one meta-narrative through a feminist reading, rather than individuals with separate identities.

• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.12-31
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• 2017

Korean commercial-organized girl groups were remarkable in the late 1990's. However, by the late 2000's, girl groups had an even more profound effect on Korean popular music compare to past influences. This study aimed to analyze the social-cultural meaning of the changing appearance of girl group between the first and second-generations. For this purpose, this study analyzed media image and text, based on a social-cultural context, about 13 girl groups. The results are as follows. First, while the first -generation girl group tended to maintain girlish/sexy images trying to the male desire, the second -generation girl group strategically showed various sexual identities such as femininity, masculinity, masculinity and androgyny along with contextual sexual images. The reason why girl groups increased the number of strategic images featuring various sexual identities was in order to appeal to a wide, diverse audience. Second, the second generation girl groups had - slim bodies with great athleticism, basically due to trainee system. Because of this, their semiotic body images have been commercially used to promote the consumption. Third, the second generation girl groups - were the bigger stars than first generation girl groups - because the members worked in many different fields. Therefore, the group members' images were successful consumed directly and then reproduced symbolically. Fourth, each member of the second -generation girl groups characterized by appearing in diverse, yet familiar images, through various media sources. Although the intention of this was to have recognition and popularity, it became difficult for them to change their image once one particular image was deemed popular.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.365-372
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• 2017

This study systematically identified the influence of the school look fashion image on public culture, which is used for increasingly sexualized marketing appeal by domestic Girl Groups. We examined and analyzed the school look fashion image of Girl Groups, focusing on the Lolita complex which is particularly influential in the sexual appeal of domestic popular fashion. The method of this study is based on a literature review from the years 2007 to 2016, when the female girl groups began to receive attention. The music videos of the female girl groups in the top 100 charts of 'Melon' from 2006 to 2-16, which provides the largest mobile music service in Korea, were watched and analyzed as primary data. As a result, it was found that the 'school fashion look image' of adolescence which was used as costumes for Girl Groups, plays a role in commercializing the image of a 'girl', and the types and characteristics of school look fashion image are drawn in two ways. First, it is the image of a seductive Lolita complex. This is the case where young girls wear school look fashion image to emphasize their sexual maturity. Second, it is the case that is using the school look fashion image in order to perform with the 'young girl' concept, as an image of the enchanting Lolita complex; in addition, the erotic body image is more explicitly exposed through choreography and nakedness.

• 건강소식
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• v.38 no.12
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• pp.14-15
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• 2014

황정음 하면 건강하고 밝고 씩씩한 이미지가 먼저 떠오른다. 걸그룹 슈가에서 MBC '우리 결혼했어요'로, 거기서 '하이킥'을 거쳐 '자이언트', '내 마음이 들리니', '골든타임', '돈의 화신' 등을 거쳐 운명 같은 드라마를 만났다. 바로 '비밀', 황정음은 이 드라마로 지난해 KBS 연기대상 여자 최우수 연기상, 베스트 커플상, 네티즌 상 등 3관왕을 달성했다. 2014년에는 SBS '끝없는 사랑'으로 우리에게 다가왔다.