{"id":56776,"date":"2025-05-21T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=56776"},"modified":"2025-04-28T16:11:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:11:52","slug":"the-korean-wave-k-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-korean-wave-k-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Korean Wave: K-pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard the term &#8220;hallyu?&#8221; &#8220;Hallyu,&#8221; also called the &#8220;Korean Wave,&#8221; refers to the increasing global popularity of South Korean pop culture, including music, film, television, and comics.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve previously introduced Korean pop music (aka K-pop) in <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/key-changes-new-k-pop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this 2021 blog post<\/a>. But did you know that you can now <a href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary.freegalmusic.com\/genre-detail\/K-Pop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listen to K-pop music<\/a> on Freegal with your Davenport library card? With unlimited streaming and up to 5 song downloads per week, your K-pop listening is covered! If you aren&#8217;t sure where to start, I&#8217;ve put together <a href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary.freegalmusic.com\/my-music\/playlists\/586212?si=bXktbXVzaWMvcGxheWxpc3RzLzU4NjIxMl8yMDA2MzAwMzgyMDIxOF85OTY=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An Introduction to K-pop<\/a> playlist for everyone to enjoy. Or, if you still prefer listening to music the old-fashioned way, check out these recent K-pop CDs available at the library.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary-bett.na2.iiivega.com\/search\/card?id=9d97a146-f5ef-4c1d-97a1-46f5efac1d1d&amp;entityType=FormatGroup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>New Jeans<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by NewJeans (2022)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary-bett.na2.iiivega.com\/search\/card?id=9eac7aa7-950f-4a24-ac7a-a7950fda240d&amp;entityType=FormatGroup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>D-Day<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Agust D (2023)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary-bett.na2.iiivega.com\/search\/card?id=9fb83aa2-0eba-4deb-b83a-a20eba0deb06&amp;entityType=FormatGroup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>My World<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Aespa (2023)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary-bett.na2.iiivega.com\/search\/card?id=6df6c6a8-8113-449e-b6c6-a88113549e92&amp;entityType=FormatGroup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Rosie<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Rose\u0301 (2024)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary-bett.na2.iiivega.com\/search\/card?id=64d067b0-fbae-4ea4-9067-b0fbaedea4fb&amp;entityType=FormatGroup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Alter Ego<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Lisa (2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>During the month of May, look for the\u00a0<strong>\u201cHallyu: The Korean Wave\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0displays at all three branches for more Korean pop culture recommendations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard the term &#8220;hallyu?&#8221; &#8220;Hallyu,&#8221; also called the &#8220;Korean Wave,&#8221; refers to the increasing global popularity of South Korean pop culture, including music, film, television, and comics. We&#8217;ve previously introduced Korean pop music (aka K-pop) in this 2021 blog post. But did you know that you can now<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-korean-wave-k-pop\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5249,15,11,1],"tags":[353,5358,10211,10205,10212,5646,3253,10213,5359],"class_list":["post-56776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-content","category-library-displays","category-music","category-reference","tag-cds","tag-freegal","tag-hallyu","tag-korean","tag-korean-wave","tag-kpop","tag-music","tag-music-streaming","tag-playlists"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-eLK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56776"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56840,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56776\/revisions\/56840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}