Asia Pacific Business Review Special Issue:
The Globalization of Postcolonial Pop Music: Putting the Success of the K-pop Industries into Theoretical Perspectives
Guest Editors:
Professor Jangwoo Lee, School of Business Administration, Kyungpook National University & Success Economy Institute, Korea
Professor Paul Lopes, Dept. of Sociology, Colgate University, USA
Professor Chris Rowley, Kellogg College, Oxford University & Bayes Business School, City, University of London, UK
Professor Ingyu Oh, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Kansai Gaidai University, Japan
Professor Lynn Pyun, Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Over the last two decades. the South Korean music market has grown into the seventh largest in the world, while its boy band BTS was ranked number one in 2021 as the most popular and best-selling global artist by IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry). All these factsare simply confounding to many pundits of the industry as no postcolonial music market has achieved global breakthroughs as such other than South Korea. Only three countries in Asia are listed on the top 10 global music markets: Japan (2nd), China (6th) and South Korea (7th). Among these, South Korea is the only postcolonial country that became independent from Japan after the Second World War.
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