Hosted by Yale sociologist Grace Kao, the IBM Professor of Sociology and professor of ethnicity, race, and migration in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Wonseok Lee, a postdoctoral associate at the Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS) at Yale’s Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies, the gathering featured scholars studying K-pop’s production, sound, and fans as well as established figures from within the K-pop industry, who offered insights into how the music is made and how the idols are trained.
