The KSAA Post-graduate Workshop 2014, held in Adelaide from 3 to 5 December, was a great success. The two keynotes, Dr Greg Evon (UNSW) and Dr Sun Hee Koo (Univ. of Auckland), both shared very intriguing ideas and experiences, and encouraged the participants to think across disciplines and regions. The Masters students, PhD candidates and post-docs also impressed with the high quality of their presentations on work in progress, as did their discussants, with very detailed feedback. On the final day, all participants posed for a group photo…
as “South Korea’s greatest export”, has rapidly achieved a large worldwide audience of devoted fans, largely through distribution over the Internet. K-pop — The international rise of the Korean music industry examines the phenomenon and discusses the reasons for its success. It considers the national and transnational conditions that have played a role in K-pop’s ascendancy and explores how they relate to post-colonial modernisation, post-Cold War politics in East Asia, connections with the Korean diaspora, and the state-initiated campaign to accumulate soft power. 
