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Areum Jeong 정아름

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👩🏻‍🏫 Korean film, pop culture, theatre & performance @arizonastateuni.bsky.social 📚 Beyond the Sewol (U of Hawaii Press, Sept 2025) & K-Pop Fandom (@uofmpress.bsky.social, Feb 2026) 📧 [email protected]

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · Aug 2

Both my books are available for pre-order now! 📚🎗️💚

uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/beyond...
(All royalties will be donated to Sewol non-profits.)

press.umich.edu/Books/K/K-Po...
(All royalties will be donated to non-profits focused on animal rights, environmental issues, or human rights.)

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 1d

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Fan Studies Network North America @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social · 2d

Did you know we have lots of other events going on during our #FSNNA2025 #FanStudies Conference in addition to our headliners?

For ex/ we've got a Q&A event happening Thurs Oct 23 (9-10am ET) with @pbooth81.bsky.social titled
"Publishing with the Bloomsbury Fan Primer Series"

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 3d

Read books purely for fun this weekend. It felt wonderful. 😌📚

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스란 @sranslife.bsky.social · 3d

교육부 산하 국립국제교육원에서 특수 외국어 배워보기 무료 강의가 있다나봐요. 올해 하반기에 25개 언어에 대해 132개 강좌 개설이라고...

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 5d

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 5d

행사도 무사히 잘 끝났고, 코비드와 플루 백신도 맞았으니 이번 주말은 뒹굴뒹굴 누워 있어야지 🫠

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 5d

Many thanks to everyone who attended Dr. Youngju Ryu's talks! And thank you, Dr. Ryu for visiting ASU and sharing your wonderful research! We learned so much and cannot wait for your forthcoming book! 🫶🏻🙌🏻🫰🏻

Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 5d

Pottery 직접 해서 그릇과 머그컵 만드는 동료 있어요 www.instagram.com/utsuwa.talk 근데 가격은 얼마인지 모르겠어요 😂 가볍게 둘러보세요!

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 5d

WTF category. In this case, my university, USC, provides cadavers to the US Navy to train IDF medical personnel. The cadavers are unclaimed bodies: people for whom no one was willing or able to pay for burials. What an afterlife after a difficult life--to have your body used without your consent.

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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The universe is 🏃‍♂️ @woojoouniverse.bsky.social · 6d

2017년부터 현재까지도 사립대학 USC 가 의료목적으로 의대에 기부된 시신을 미 해군에 팔아먹고 미 해군은 시신들을 이스라엘 점령군의 수술 트레이닝을 위해 이용해 왔다는 취재가 나옴. 미국의 군산학 복합체의 존재 목적이 이런 거구나.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d

USC is selling bodies that were likely donated to the university for medical training to the US Navy to literally train the IDF, seemingly without family consent.

This is per reporting by USC’s own journalism school.

t.co/lZ5jmQoZ1t

Near the end of 2017, the United States Navy filed a notice of intent to begin purchasing human cadavers from the University of Southern California. The purpose: Use dead bodies in trauma surgery training for the Israeli Defense Forces.

Since that notice, the Navy has paid USC more than $860,000 for at least 89 “fresh cadaver bodies,” 32 of which were used specifically for IDF training at Los Angeles General Medical Center.

One contract is still ongoing. The Navy has already paid USC over half a million dollars, but the most recent contract allows for an additional $225,000 worth of cadavers to be purchased at the Navy’s discretion, which would bring USC’s total earned for the last seven years to nearly $1.1 million.

While the three contracts in question make up less than 1% of USC’s 367 contracts with the Navy, Annenberg Media was unable to locate any other U.S. university that had similar contracts involving the IDF. (See the other contracts here and here.)

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한겨레 @hanibsky.bsky.social · 6d

제주 지역에서 추석을 앞두고 제주4·3 역사를 왜곡하는 펼침막이 내걸렸지만, 이를 철거할 방법이 없어 희생자 유족들이 분노하고 있습니다.

“공산당 폭동”…4·3유족 울리는 이 현수막 철거 못 하는 이유

제주 지역에서 추석을 앞두고 제주4·3 역사를 왜곡하는 펼침막이 내걸렸지만, 이를 철거할 방법이 없어 희생자 유족들이 분노하고 있다. 2일 제주도선거관리위원회와 제주시에 따르면, 지난 29일부터 제주 시내 최소 3곳에 ‘‘4·3’ 공산당 폭동으로 발생’이라고 쓰인 펼침

www.hani.co.kr

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 8d

Can't wait to read Bora Chung's new book Midnight Timetable translated by @antonhur.com ! 📚✨

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Beyond the Sewol @beyondthesewol.bsky.social · 9d

Beyond the Sewol is now available for order and shipping via all vendors!

All royalties from this book will be donated to Sewol non-profits.🎗️

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 9d

Our panel "K-pop Fandom(s) and Authenticity: When Fans Control the Narrative" has been accepted for the Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org 2026 annual conference!

Many thanks to @math48.bsky.social for organizing the panel and hope to see you in Vancouver next March! 🙌🏻

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 10d

개인적으로 면은 별로인데 국물과 미역이 나름 맛나서 밥 말아먹는 거 좋아해요 ㅎㅎ

Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 13d

혹시 최근에 비왔어요? 비오면 집이 떠내려간 개미들이 새 집을 찾으러 들어오기도 한대요 🥲

Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 15d

Looking forward to discussing Han Kang's Human Acts with our PhD candidate & translator Sue Hyon Bae! Please drop by if you are in the area! 🌵🌴☀️ We would love to see you! 🤗

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Minwoo Jung @minwoojung.bsky.social · 15d

Join us for a roundtable reflecting on the decade since Feminism Reboot (2015), a turning point in feminist and queer politics and scholarship in South Korea. Together, we’ll reflect on what has shifted, what has stalled, and what futures we might imagine.

Register here: bit.ly/46jg871

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 15d

이번주도 화이팅! 🌵🌴☀️

Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 16d

케이팝 팬덤 책은 가슴 밑바닥부터 내 모든 것을 날 것 그대로 보여주는 거라 세상에 내놓는 게 겁이 많이 나는데, 이렇게 용기를 북돋아 주는 따뜻한 추천사를 써주신 분들께 진심으로 감사드립니다. 💚

Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 16d

I am still extremely nervous and vulnerable about releasing something that is so personal and close to my heart into the world, so their kind words gave me a great deal of encouragement, especially in these unsettling times. Thank you so much! 💚

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 16d

My editor forwarded me the beautiful and generous endorsements that fan culture experts wrote for my K-Pop Fandom book. I know they are very busy folks, so I am grateful for the time they took to read and respond to my work. 💚

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"By bringing her own extraordinary ethnographic and historical analyses of K-pop into dialogue with existing literature on fandom and performance, Jeong vividly and sensitively communicates the novelty and significance of K-pop in South Korea to the fandom studies literature. This book will be an important text for scholars, educators, and students of Korean media studies. Jeong's book will be a seminal touchstone in the field of K-pop studies for many years to come."
- Thomas Baudinette, Macquarie University

"In writings about K-pop, my ultimate bias is Areum Jeong. In K-Pop Fandom, she deftly explores how the practices of K-pop fans are culturally significant and meaningful.
Analyzing labor and identity practices, narrative and storytelling, and political resistance, Jeong's work moves far beyond the specifics of music to examine the power of audiences today. This is required reading for scholars and fans of K-pop."
- Paul Booth, DePaul University

"Areum Jeong's K-Pop Fandom is brilliantly focused on fans' affective labor and its many materializations. Paying careful attention to the industrial forces of K-pop, Jeong analyzes the issue of excessive consumption alongside fans' community and independently published memoirs that seek to evade the enclosures of
neoliberal capitalism. Smart and immersive, this is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the passions and practices of K-pop fandom."
- Matt Hills, author of Fan Cultures

"Keen analysis of music industry trends and fan labor blends seamlessly with Jeong's thoughtful foray down memory lane, which positions her at the forefront of K-pop's past and present, both as a witness and active participant. This book feels intimate and exploratory, delving deeper into the concept of deokhu for English-language scholarship while interrogating the connection between fan labor, fan expectation, and fanaticism."
- Tamar Herman, author of BTS: Blood, Sweat & Tears

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 16d

#OpEd: "We can’t bury the deeper, driving forces behind why this is happening. This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents — ICE, police officers, prison staff — have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies." Read the full story here. ⬇️

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women

"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

www.teenvogue.com

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