A Talk on K-Pop's Role in Chile with Dr. Moisés Park

In late 2019, a graffiti on a Chilean public-school wall facing the streets says “LISTEN TO K-POP, BURN THE POLICE.” Earlier that week, it was revealed that a “big data report” conducted by the Chilean Ministry of the Interior asserted that “foreign influence” influenced the country’s largest protests in history that had been happening since October 2019; one of the foreign influences was determined to be “fanáticos del K-pop."

This talk will address K-pop and its reception and (radically political) revolution in 21st Century Chile. It will also include a personal reflection on how Dr. Park experienced the perceptions of foreigners (particularly Asians) in Chile, as a son of Korean immigrants who grew up in Chile.

The event is sponsored by the World Languages and Literatures Department and Sigma Delta Pi.