Digitally-savvy and passionate, K-pop fans' Trump activism should come as no surprise
K-pop fans have been able to put the online organisational tools they’ve honed for fandom projects to work on political activism
by Tamar Herman
Jun 22, 2020
3 minutes
Over the past month or so, it’s been widely reported to much acclaim that K-pop fans are mobilising in social media spaces to help fight injustice. The majority of this was done thanks to K-pop fans’ savvy and long history of mobilising digitally to support their favourite stars, but that’s just the beginning.
For those not in the know, fans of South Korea’s pop music scene, aka K-pop, first went viral in recent days by engaging in a kind of vigilante activism, as fans – and
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