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The book I chose is called K-POP NOW! by Mark James Russell. Mark has lived in Korea since 1996 and has covered K-pop culture for publications like Billboard, Newsweek, and the New York Times. He has written many books through out his career, but some of his most popular works are Pop Goes Korea: Behind the Revolution, Young-hee and the Pullocho, and K-POP NOW! The Korean Revolution.

Mark has his own personal website where you can contact him and read more about his career and his accomplishments at www.markjamesrusssell.com. You may also follow him on twitter at @themarkrusell. Or you may follow him on his blog which is found on his website where he talks about pop culture, writing, and anything that sparks his interest. He welcomes anyone to join and comment.

Here is lecture of Mark James at The George Washington University in Washington, DC explaining the K-pop revolution in depth. He talks about the history and how it started. Also mentions how k-pop music has had a huge affect globally.

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This book is written for the K-POP fanatic or just any individual who is interested in learning how K-POP got its start and how it has gained and is keep gaining popularity around the world. The book starts by taking a look into Korea's hip and energetic pop music. Starting with Psy's music video "Gangnam Style" in 2012, it suddenly took over the worlds fans quickly. It featured amazing, attractive, and skilled singer and extremely eye-popping visuals that fans loved. Even though K-POP is pretty in the west (Americas), it is absolutely gaining strong momentum reaching out to more audiences around the world. Audiences around the world are able to see the phenomenon through social media outlets like, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. K-POP groups get outrages views when it comes to there online music videos. Such videos like the Girls Generation single "Gee" received over 100 million views to date. By now, almost 20 years later, K-POP has proved to the masses its ability to endure, constantly evolving to absorb new music trends and forms. And with more and more K-POP groups coming to light more then ever out of Korea's music labels, tiny or large, no doubt that K-POP will last for years to come.

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The first main point that the author makes is that he wants the reader to understand that K-pop is a musical sensation that erupted from South Korea and turned the whole world into fans. The second point that James Russell mentions is that K-pop is not just about music, but it is also consumed by and inspired by fashion and style, fun and the future, of a new wave of attitude that arose from an old world of South Korea. Lastly, he James Russell describes where the music K-pop originated, specifically from Seoul. Before k-pop, Seoul not so long ago was a overwhelmingly drab city, mostly covered by large concrete bland not so pleasing buildings. But That changed since the arrival or k-pop. The city is now full of amazing stores/ shops, some of the best styles in the world, and it is now full of amazing and incredible modernized architecture. The new Seoul is unrecognizable compared to the old seoul that was generations ago.

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- Seoul is the biggest city in Korea and it is home to about 10 million living in the suburbs and surrounding cities.
-There was popular music before k-pop. Cho Yong-pil was one of the biggest artists of the 1980s, but he faded in the early 1990s.
- K-pop acts often get ten million to thirty million hits for thier videos, with the biggest songs topping 50 million.
- Gwanghwamun is the front gate to seoul's most famous palace. It was first built in 1395.
- Geunjeongjeon was the throne room for the Korean kings long ago.
- Garosu-gil has become one of the most popular places in Seoul to rest and relax.

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-Big companies like GIC and the ones that fueled big hits market entertainment. The company jumped 160% and toped at a market value of $8.4 billion.
- The Korean wave which is also known as Hallyu, blackpink, or k-pop include music, movies, dramas, ect.
- Exports also include items such as food and beauty products.
- These exports contribute largely to its $1.6 trillion nominal GDP.
-Its export of cultural products grew 22.4% from 2018-2019.
-In 2018 BTS single dynamite contributed $1.4 billion to South Korea's economy.
- The single also created about 8,000 new jobs in its sector.
- Content industry is expected to become the countries biggest profiting sector.
- Hallyu budget for 2021 is expected to be slightly over $585 million.

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Why the Korean wave is more than BTS or Blackpink | CNBC Explains

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Today South Korea's biggest cultural export quite frankly is Blackpink and BTS. As James Russell puts it, "ever since K-pop hit the scene, it has been growing none stop. More and more new groups are evolving, with more hip moves, flashy videos, and more specifically more music hits that fans love." But other huge cultural exports also include K-beauty brands and even esports (Pc,Xbox, Playstation), which contribute largly to Korea's $12.3 billion worth of export goods in the year 2019. As James stated, "k-pop is just the beginning for growing industries in South Korea, Esports, and cultural exports will be booming in the future that is right near the corner." Projecting what the CBS news article reported. Large cultural exports is growing immensely and is becoming a huge success for South Korea. Its huge $1.6 trillion dollar contribution is an extreme jump for South Koreas GPD.