How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Here's the CFP for the World Congress of Korean Studies, happening next September in Japan. The same details as in the screenshot can be found in Korean on the AKS homepage at this link: www.aks.ac.kr/cms/usr/wap/...

obviously golf is more important

Side quest for this week-- make a best music of 2025 list-- which has been complicated by realizing I never did 2024. So I guess I'll do both as I try to revise and resubmit two articles. #kpop Probably can't include this if I limit my list to under 100. youtu.be/rr4gKSjmh9Q?...

Again - I am cautiously optimistic the utter fucking blatancy of the attempt is creating an effective and true counter narrative.

One of my student's creative project had a whole manhwa. This image is beautiful and has a great message. #LGBTQ+ #Acceptance

Dr. #OlgaFedorenko has published a new article many of you will want to read. She theorizes #K_branding as an #exotic spice. I freaking LOVE IT. You can find the article at this link-- free to download. #kpop #kdrama www.korea-europe-review.org/index.php/ke...

The creative project + paper I am currently grading made 6 original #ATEEZ memes and talked about the themes in them in the paper. This meme was my favorite

My edited collection *Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop* is out soon (January 8!) with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social and available for pre-order now: rebrand.ly/kpop-stories. This volume grew out of years of thinking with (and teaching) K-pop storyworlds. #CriticalKPop

My "East Asian Popular Culture" class has students do a "Creative Project" (anything related to EA pop culture), and then write a paper about it. The combo of creativity and writing is supposed to both push them away from AI and allow them to demonstrate their own individual learning.

It's Christmas morning, so... time for more grading.

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

Hey, since we're all talking about CECOT again, And how sending innocent people to solitary confinement is a fundamentally evil practice... Can we talk about solitary confinement in US prisons and jails yet? No? It's only bad when the GOP does it? It's okay when it happens to Black people?

Why do students think that I will think this is their voice and not AI? I struggle to write like this. "This means that Chuseok functions today not as an agricultural ritual but as a nationally synchronized mobility event structured by industrial time."

it’s so annoying that i have to know what so many stupid incurious and hateful bigoted people are up to all the time. i shouldn’t even have to know what a “bari weiss” is.

너무 귀찮아서 이걸 스레드에 복붙하기 싫어요. 그래서 그냥 페북에서 스샷 찍어요.

Koreans actually celebrate #solstice on the 22nd (it's the 21st according to calculations of the placement of the earth). Traditionally you should eat bean porridge #팥죽 on winter solstice, so I stopped at the sijang & picked some up. The juk sellers had a large sign to remind everyone #동지

MTG isn't coming to our side, she's just being less of a full throated MAGAt

Jesus H Christ, students, you can make the bibliography yourself, it takes 5 minutes. Or you can ask AI and if it doesn't know, it will MAKE ISHT UP. And then you will have a bogus bibliography for articles I know you read and had all the info to cite because they are class required readings

Have you thought about how using #ChatGPT or other #AI for #travel planning profoundly (negatively) impacts what you experience during your trip? My students and I thought about this and wrote an article. Our site is in #Korea, but the larger issue of how ChatGPT will send you to

Evil cannot recognize good, and they apparently can’t recognize bad PR either.

Yesterday my German exchange students taught me a highly specific word, Einser-Bremse, which is basically what you put on the exam to make sure to only give an A to the deserving students. The fact that such a term ("A Breaker") exists just cracked me up.

I don't think I can ever get over how good this song is. #OhHyuk #SunsetRollercoaster youtu.be/kb0whVogBkI?...

I saved one really smart student's paper to grade last. Like a treat at the end. By the time I found the FOURTH item in the biblio that was AI imagination, I felt so betrayed. I let this student turn in the paper super late, I was so understanding, I looked forward to reading, and I got this.

Unpopular opinion maybe?: I do not need non-religious Christmas music. I do not see the point in it. Like some of the religious Christmas music is so beautiful, but the new Christmas songs released by pop groups? It just smacks of crass consumerism. ICK.

If any of you happen to be #Ghibli fans, would you please fill this survey out? It's my student's research for her final paper, and she needs more responses. Thank you. #StudioGhibli #GhibliMusic forms.gle/1SXnq9ceRyKe...

Wow, it's time for me to have an #XG marathon to celebrate #Cocona being such a brave role model!!! I am so in awe of them and their bravery.

I have loved this hip hop group for years, since I was judging a indie music contest and they were one of the groups in the category of I believe Asian Music (they won it). ANYWAY, today I find out that their name, in Hokkien, means HANDJOB!!!!!!!!!!! youtu.be/Jqwlv6mDfao?...

I really feel like drinking culture in Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan are extremely different. If I had to choose which one society drinks the most, it's definitely Korea. Especially affected by K-drama. I watched a K-drama called "술꾼도시여자들", three main female characters drink everyday.

Things are deteriorating so quickly as the full weight of American fascism comes to bear it’s really hard to fully explain to people even having done this for years now. Americans have no understanding what it is going to take to destroy the machinery of fascism and the scaffolding it is building

Last semester I saw something interesting in the papers of four of my students. So I combined them and published them! The (negative) impact of ChatGPT on tourism, esp. for foreign tourists. #Tourism #Korea #Festival #ChatGPT Download: www.kossrec.org?page_id=482&...

Hiphop culture and rapping in kpop What is the difference between 'idol rappers' and 'idols who rap'? www.meer.com/en/72458-hip...

The semester is almost over and I am going to miss students who take simple prompts and just go for it like this. Of course next semester I should meet new brilliant and enthusiastic people, but I do wish I could have the same students semester after semester. #Bewhy #HipHop #Korea #ChristianMusic

My very sharp student picks apart some important differences here between #hiphop/ #rap from #China and from #Taiwan, and how those contexts shape what we hear. Please keep expanding the thread to the end, it's really great!

#Hiphop is treated differently from pop because it isn’t just music: it’s a culture born from Black struggle and resistance. When artists in #China, #Japan, or #Korea make hip hop, appropriation debates emerge because they’re engaging with a #culture rooted in a specific history of #oppression.

The question isn’t “Can Asian artists make hip hop?” but how they engage with a culture built from resistance and marginalization. Blueprint Supreme shows that East Asian rap can localize without erasing origins: it adapts, contextualizes, and transforms.

9 Dec 10:30am KOREA Join us for Dr @michellehsho.bsky.social's #booktalk about her new book! #Japan #Gender #Queer msg me here for the zoom code

#Hiphop transforms when it enters a new national context because it must adapt to local histories, languages, and social realities. While the core elements (flow, rhythm, sampling and attitude) remain recognisable, artists reinterpret them through their own cultural frameworks.

The article I wrote with four super smart students has just come out! If you follow the link and click on the article title, you'll get the PDF for free (and the journal's site visit metrics will benefit). It's about #tourism, a #Korean #festival, and #ChatGPT. www.kossrec.org?page_id=482&...

This is from #WangYehan's 2023 article on Chinese hip-hop but I read it as a #Kpop scholar, and it makes so much sense. As the artificial ideas of high and low music disappear, we can become omnivores authenticating our taste through our wide (genre, national context) consumption of *pop* music.

I’ve been monitoring online discussions from Hong Kong about why HKers consider blaming bamboo scaffolding is a gov spin, and I think many AUS media have got it WRONG. They think it’s a spin NOT because they see bamboo scaffolding as a tradition that distinguishes HK from China.

Again, my students demonstrating their deep knowledge and exposure to class topics. #BL

A lovely critique of the commercialization of the #PinkEconomy #BL #RaindbowBranding #superficial

I love when different classes by different professors in different departments can come together like this in the mind of a student^^ #BL

At first sight, the increasing adaptation of manga into television and movies seems to offer an opportunity for fans, broadcasting companies and mangaka, but it that really the case ?

Manga and comics have often been dismissed by Western cultural critics because they are traditionally linked to “children’s culture.” For a long time, anything visual or illustrated was seen as less serious than literature, theatre, or cinema. #mangaculture #Japan

Evil people like this walking around looking totally effing normal. I'm not for capital punishment, but in this case a bit of facial branding might be appropriate. www.news1.kr/society/cour...

It is time for manga! Manga is a style of graphical storytelling that has its roots in Japan. But it is not just "a book". Manga, as Cohn 2010 mentioned in his article, can also be considered as a visual language. For example: Who understands the meaning of a bleeding nose? #manga

24 Nov 4pm PACIFIC "Korean Folklore and Mythology in Tabletop RPGs: Minki Kim and Nine Heavens Press" w. #KimMinki #WangSixiang #TimothyTangherlini #gaming #RPG #Korea Registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...