About

Welcome to Heart and Seoul Music. Here I break down K-music and K-culture with less fluff than you’d usually find elsewhere. But even with no fluff, I go deep. Can’t handle that? Well, you might show yourself out, because you’ll probably end up offended or going on a Reddit rant.

I’ve been studying Korean and the K-pop industry since 2015, and I also have linguistic study of a few other languages under my belt for the purposes of performing comparative linguistic (and cultural) analyses.

I try incredibly hard to be accurate, original, and respectful.

My personality may be hard to handle on the face of it, but really I just like to get down to business when I’m in the flow.

I welcome comments and debate, and I do reserve the right to not respond to comments without sufficient thought put into them or deliberate flames that add no productive quality to the discussion of what the post contains, or broader K-culture as a whole.

Let’s get started. South Korea is a place much richer than kimchi, that popular tourist spot, or those ambiguously positive compliments about how you confidently said “Hello, do you speak English?” to that elderly woman and her daughter at the mini mart.