Wonseok Lee
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Wonseok Lee is a cultural musicologist whose research interests include Korean popular music and culture, globalization, transnationalism, musical identity, media studies, border theory, posthumanism in music. He has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as Journal of Popular Music Studies, Korean Journal of Popular Music, IASPM Journal, Journal of World Popular Music, and Rock Music Studies. He is now working on his first book project that examines how K-pop challenges traditional boundaries, including that K-pop should be performed by Koreans and that K-pop idols must be human, to see how the expanding boundaries of K-pop affect the way people view the genre. Wonseok received his PhD in Musicology (with emphasis on ethnomusicology) from the Ohio State University. Before coming to Yale, he was a lecturer in Korean Studies at Washington University in St. Louis where he taught K-pop, The Korean Wave, and Global Korean music.