Unboxing the advanced copy! 💚 💚 K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today 👩🏻‍💻 By Areum Jeong 📚 University of Michigan Press, February 2026 @uofmpress.bsky.social press.umich.edu/Books/K/K-Po... 🙌🏻 Available for pre-order now!

Unboxing the advanced copy! 💚 💚 K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today 👩🏻‍💻 By Areum Jeong 📚 University of Michigan Press, February 2026 @uofmpress.bsky.social press.umich.edu/Books/K/K-Po... 🙌🏻 Available for pre-order now!

🙋🏻‍♀️ Is it true that you dedicated the book to your bias? 👩🏻‍💻 Yes! My first K-pop bias, Eun Jiwon, whom I have been a fan of since his debut in 1997, inspired me to begin this project around 2017. ⬇️

🙋🏻‍♀️ How do you conduct research? 👩🏻‍💻 I combine insights from ethnography, cultural studies, fan studies, media studies, and performance studies. Significantly, I also draw on my own research as a participant-observer and co-performer witness.

🙋🏻‍♀️ Who are you? 👩🏻‍💻 Some people know me as Prof. Jeong, who teaches Korean film, literature, and pop culture at Arizona State University; some people know me as a Tyongf—a fan of Taeyong from NCT (and some love to drop by my office to look at my Taeyong Shrine or receive freebies!) ⬇️

💚 K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today 👩🏻‍💻 By Areum Jeong 📚 University of Michigan Press, February 2026 press.umich.edu/Books/K/K-Po... 🙌🏻 Available for pre-order now!