• Korean Association of Arts Management
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• no.49
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• pp.87-115
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• 2019

The impact of "Korean wave" has gradually expanded in recent years, its spread trend can also be seen in the United States, South America, and even in Europe. As the earliest and largest importer of Korean culture, China's importance is self-evident. Based on the results of empirical analysis, and analyze the importance and satisfaction of each element that makes up the four factors(Music, Dance, Style, Story) with IPA method, as well as the impact of its rankings on K-POP fans phenomenon in China. The results of this study are organized as follows. Firstly, according to the analysis results, only 10.5% of the K-POP fans are male, and K-POP fans are generally young, their age mainly concentrates in the first half of the 20th (49.0%). Secondly, among the survey respondents, 65% of the fans have positive comments on the Korean Wave, most of K-POP fans obtain their idols' information through Internet, and 49.5% have consumption behaviors for their favorite idols. Thirdly, it can be seen from the data of survey results that fans attach the greatest attention to the importance and satisfaction of the melody elements in terms of music, and the performance effect in terms of dance, the appearance is chosen as the priority in terms of styling, as for the last factor, topicality, the broadcasting is the first choice. In view of the formation of the phenomenon of K-POP fans among Chinese Korean fans, by conducting the correlation analysis and research on the importance and satisfaction of each factor through data, this study is with great practical significance in academic research, it can be used as practical and meaningful material for the K-POP fans among Chinese Korean fans.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.267-280
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• 2019

The hybrid phenomenon of pronunciation of K-Pop lyrics, which is the diction fusion phenomenon of lyrics, is not a strategic measure for an overseas expansion but a natural formation in the course of history of K-Pop. With the debut of Seo Tai-ji and Boys in 1992, the course of K-Pop changed and settled from ballad to dance music. After three years, the success of a hip hop dance music, 'Come Back Home', opened up a door to Korean Americans who ascertained the potential competitiveness of a hip hop music in K-Pop market. And the writer insists that such advance of Korean Americans into K-Pop market is the origin of the bilingual usage and diction fusion phenomenon of K-Pop lyrics. Therefore, this research will look into the pronunciation system of Korean and English in order to understand the bilingual pronunciation system shown in the lyrics sung by Korean American hip hop singers in the 1990s. Moreover, through Korean pronunciation system, this analysis will discover the main cause of continual acceptance and application of Korean American's broken Korean in the diction of lyrics. Last but not least, this exploration will show the correlation of English pronunciation method of Korean lyrics appeared in K-Pop and the diction of Korean lyrics used by Korean American hip hop singers in late 90s. This research will identify the primary cause of the diction fusion phenomenon in the course of history of K-Pop.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.189-198
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• 2019

This study aims to make meaning of the reactions of the Korean people through the text mining of comments on videos of the December 2018 MMA performance of intro on YouTube. For this, comments on 15 YouTube videos were collected over the past 10 months. With the collected data, a total of 5,135 comments were analyzed through crawling using the Python and BeautifulSoup programs, data was refined over a total of 3 sessions, and a final total of 5,080 comments were used as analysis material. A mining technique was used for data analysis and the process of refinement, analysis, and visualization was achieved using the Textom program. Research results showed that keyword analysis showed the keywords of 'performance', 'Korea', 'video', 'top', 'cool', 'dance', 'idol', 'legend', 'love', and 'gratitude' in that order and keywords such as 'patriotism' and 'Olympics' also appeared frequently. N-gram analysis showed that comments with contexts such as 'a top performance that will remain a legend among Korean idol performances', and 'an idol performance that displayed the traditional culture of Korea' were in higher ranks. Based on such keyword analysis results, topic modeling was applied and 5 top keywords were extracted from a total of 5 topics. Analysis results of topic contents and distribution showed that topics in the comments of this performance's videos largely consisted of the 3 reactions of 'high praise regarding the stage performance', 'affection towards the fusion and artistic sublimation of Korean traditional dance', and 'gratitude towards the uploading of cool dance videos'

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.217-224
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• 2024

With the rapid growth of K-POP, the dance content industry is spreading. With the recent increase in the spread of SNS, they also shoot and share their dance videos. However, it is not easy for dance beginners who are new to dancing to learn dance moves because it is difficult to receive objective feedback when dancing alone while watching videos. This paper describes a system that uses MediaPipe to compare choreography videos and dance videos of users and detect whether they are following the movement correctly. This study proposes a method of giving feedback based on Color Map to users by calculating the similarity of dance movements between user images taken with webcam or camera and choreography images using cosine similarity and COCO OKS. Through this system, objective feedback on users' dance movements can be visually received, and beginners are expected to be able to learn accurate dance movements.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.343-362
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• 2020

English is a stress-timed language that has a phonetic system in which the speech is restructured by stress changes. On the other hand, Korean is a syllable-timed language in which each syllable is pronounced at almost the same length and intensity, and Korean and English have distinctly different metrical systems in general speech. However, as the language of the lyrics in K-Pop music is mixed in both languages, Korean and English, the Korean lyrics in K-Pop music have a metrical system by stress changes as in English. The writer's view is that the change in the metrical structure of Korean lyrics is inevitable in order to sustain the new Korean Wave. Therefore, in this study, dance music - a major genre of K-Pop music that focuses on rhythm expression - is classified into 1998, 2003, and 2009 according to the changes in the Korean Wave, and the metrical structure of each period is compared and analyzed. Based on this, the current K-Pop metrical structure features are derived and the K-Pop Korean writing method is proposed that deviates from the existing limited writing method which allocates one syllable per note. The author hopes this research will be used as a methodology for writing lyrics in Korean songs in K-Pop, as well as a way to encourage the use of Korean lyrics.

• Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.377-382
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• 2016

Objective: The purpose of this study was to provide data on gait characteristics of K-pop professional dancers. Method: Participants were divided into four groups: male dancers (n=10, age: $28.2{\pm}3.4years$, height: $175{\pm}6cm$, weight: $68.9{\pm}5.6kg$), female dancers (n=10, age: $26.7{\pm}3.1years$, height: $162{\pm}4cm$, weight: $52.1{\pm}3.7kg$), non-dancer males (n=10, age: $25.2{\pm}2.6years$, height: $171{\pm}6cm$, weight: $66.4{\pm}5.3kg$), or non-dancer females (n=10, age: $26.2{\pm}3.0years$, height: $161{\pm}5cm$, weight: $56.4{\pm}6.7kg$). Twelve infrared cameras (Qualisys, Oqus 500, Sweden, 150 Hz.) were used to capture three-dimensional motion data. Gait motion data of professional dancers and ordinary persons were obtained. Results: K-pop dancers' dynamic stability during the female toe off event and the male heel contact event was better compared with that of ordinary persons in the front-rear direction. In addition, the results showed a significant difference in the margin of stability (MoS). However, the medial-lateral direction of both female and male dancers during heel contact and the toe off event was more stable compared with ordinary person, who exhibited an increased MoS than did the dancers. Conclusion: This study aimed to investigate the gait characteristics of K-pop professional dancers in comparison with ordinary persons using gait parameters and MoS. The stability of K-pop professional dancers' dynamic gait in the front-rear direction was better than that in the medial-lateral direction. Therefore, further studies in which the dance movements of K-pop dancers are sub-divided and analyzed will be necessary to reduce related injury.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.1435-1438
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 대용량의 K-POP 모션캡처 데이터베이스에서 특정 안무구간을 검색하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안 기술은 저가형 3D 카메라를 이용하여 사용자가 직접 검색하고자 하는 동작을 생성하고 이를 질의동작으로 입력하여 원하는 안무동작을 검색하는 직관적인 검색 기술로서 구간 동작의 명칭이 존재하지 않는 K-POP 댄스를 검색하기 위한 핵심기술이다. 역동적인 댄스 자세를 표현하고 매칭하는 방법으로 관절 및 바디파트 간의 상대적인 각도 정보를 추출하고 비교하는 방법을 설명한다. 대용량의 모션캡쳐 데이터베이스를 고속으로 검색하기 위해서 안무동작의 핵심 자세를 분석하여 후보구간 집합을 빠르게 생성하고, 이들 집합에서 Dynamic Time Warping(DTW) 알고리즘으로 안무동작 간의 매칭거리를 보다 정밀하게 산출한다. 약 358분의 K-POP 댄스 곡 100곡에 대한 성능평가에서 92%의 검색정확도를 보였으며, 이는 K-POP 댄스 동작의 복잡성을 고려할 때 경쟁력 있는 성능치이다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.516-524
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• 2012

K-pop has gained its popularity all over the world, and its popularity is mostly concentrated in Asian countries. Korean wave which has started from Korean dramas has expanded its horizon to K-pop, which centers around idol singers since 2005. The K-pop's popularity is evident from fans imitating singers' dance moves, makeup, appearance, and even trying to learn Korean. This study tries to explore consuming behaviors of Asian K-pop consumers from China, Japan, Thailand and Vietnam, and the main reasons Asian consumers prefer K-pop over their own countries' pop. The study also analyzes on how K-pop influences K-pop consumers to build positive feeling toward Korea and give them intention to visit Korea. The results showed the differences among K-pop consuming behaviors, relationship among attributes of K-pop, positive feeling toward Korea, and intention to visit Korea among four Asian countries. Findings would be the stepping stone that could support K-pop to expand its market to other foreign countries.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.199-204
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• 2018

This study analyzes Cho, Yong- Pil's contribution on K-Pop history as he celebrates the 50th anniversary of his debut. The history of K-Pop, when Cho has been active in, is divided into three periods. From the late 1960s to the early 1980s was a period when trots and rocks were popular. Soft rock, heavy metal, and ballads came in from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s. From the late 2000s to the present, dance music, mostly hook songs, has dominated. In every inflection point of K-Pop history, he contributed to the development throughout various musical genres. In the first period, he introduced rock music with the unique emotion of Korea by combining the trot and the rock genre. In the second period, he contributed to the development of both rock and ballad genres. In the third period, his hook songs were released to the controversy, but it contributed to creating an atmosphere in which the vocal ability of the vocalist in idol groups was emphasized in the K-pop scene.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.261-275
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• 2022

In this stage when K-Pop and K-Fashion have been drawing global attention, it is required to activate the Korean culture and fashion by developing fashion products which reinterpret various items in the Hanbok fields with modern sense in connection with Korean wave. Thus, this study aims to develop fashion products related to Korean wave with court dance costumes used in court banquets, which may be the origin of K-Pop, as the main theme, and to converge and expand culture and fashion fields. To this end, the original court dance costumes and their modern forms continuing in these days were analyzed and the costumes for Musanhyang, Yeonhwadae, Cheoyongmu, Chundaeokchok and Chunaengjeon differentiated from existing daily Hanbok were selected. The fashion products related to Korean wave reflecting the specific elements of those five costumes were designed. Then, the silhouette and sizes of those costumes were checked using the CLO, the 3D virtual clothing program and total 5 fashion products were created. In conclusion, the results of this paper will contribute on making Korean design popular on the design aspects, expanding the scope of Korean wave contents on the industrial aspects and globalizing the K-Fashion on the global aspects.