Author of K-Pop Revolution, stephanmlee, on social media, artists he loves, and why fandom is about feeling seen 💕
within myself.” Candace does feel that way, too, because she feels so disconnected at the beginning. She even wants to distance herself from K-pop, because she almost finds it embarrassing that everyone would assume that she would be the big K-pop fan. But she realizes, "Hey, this was in me the whole time."where Candace does an interview with the Korean news reporter after she exposes the corruption and abuse at the fictional S.A.Y. company on live television.
I definitely didn't want to sidestep any problems, but I actually think a lot of the problems that K-pop has and that the book explores are pretty universal as far as industries or systems that profit off of young people's talents and their dreams. That's almost anything. It's professional sports. It's dance competitions. It's getting into college. It's everything to get by in a capitalistic world or society.
I really started to empathize with both sides of the social media coin in terms of it [being] one of the most powerful tools for good, at least for fandom. Because look at all the amazing stuff that happens when K-pop fans get together on social media. But even aside from K-pop, just the backlash, in general, of social media is so scary.
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