Friday, 11 March 2016

Blog 3

Research topic:
Why do Hong Kong teenagers like consuming Korean music?


What is the refined research question that you are setting out to answer?


1) Why teenages like to listen K-pop and Korean Idols.

2) From the package of idol and music to see how success of Korea can get such popularity
3) Can K-pop still can last longer within this few years?

How does this develop themes and debates explored within the lectures of this module? (Please put down the revised short introduction to your project based on the one in blog 2. Remember that the introduction should include the purpose of your research project, significance and key concept(s) that may be useful for your analysis.)

In the start of 00s, our idols are Twins, Eason Chan, Yung ChoYee, etc. We will buy CDS, or magazine. However, in these few years K-pop start gets into Hong Kong, many teenage start to listen K-pop instead of Canto-pop. Especially, the news appears the most in the teenage magazine is Korea singer, not Chinese singer anymore.
From this research i would like to find out K-pop have what special characteristics, example, melody, music video, the package of idol, etc. can get attention from Hong Kong teenage.



What critical methodologies are you going to use? How are you going to produce the evidence you’ll need to answer your research question?*


Example: In-depth interviews with five immigrants from Mainland China

1) Doing a questionnaire with 30 teenagers (around 16-25 years old)what they think about Korean music

2) In-depth interview with 4 teenages (18-23 years old) that is addicted to Korean music


What physical resources (e.g. camera) will this primary research require?

No / Yes (Please specify): No



Where and when exactly is this primary research going to take place?
(NB for health and safety reasons, we need to know the EXACT locations at which this research will take place and the EXACT times that you’ll be working there)

Place(s):
Mongkok Starbucks
(Interview)


Date and Time:
14/3 4:00pm






Which key persons (e.g. family members, trustworthy friends, business owners, etc.) have agreed to help and support you in carrying out this research?

Yes (Please provide name and contact):

(In-dpeth interview)Trustworthy friends So Long Hang(21 years old) 97172XXX



Self-assessment of risk:
Is this research exercise likely to expose you to any health and safety risks or any risk to property? (If the answer is yes, please specify the risks)
(NB these might include: exposure to theft by using a camera in a public place; journeying into an unknown area of town; entering into people’s homes; carrying out ethnographies in places in which excessive alcohol consumption or drug use takes place; etc.)


No / Yes: No




References:
1) Harry S. Truman, The Globalization of K-Pop: Korea’s Place in the Global Music Industry1,

2) Yifan Chang, Research on the Identity Construction of Korean Pop Music’s Fandom Groups on the Weibo Platform, Exemplified by G-Dragon (Kwon Ji-Yong), http://www.diva-portal.se/smash/get/diva2:725402/FULLTEXT01.pdf

3) Errol Ace L. Agatep, Jaime Alejandro A. Carvajal , Arvin Jerome A. Ballesteros, Carlo B. Navalta, Gabriel Earl F. Dulay, Rey Angelo B. Espinueva, Dominic D. Magpali, Fernando P. Oringo,
, What is K-poppening? Behavior and Academic Performance of 3 rd and 4 th year Students of Lorma Colleges Special Science High School Students, http://www.dlsu.edu.ph/conferences/dlsu_research_congress/2014/_pdf/proceedings/LCCS-I-006-FT.pdf


1 comment:

  1. Dear Jodi, The research question is clear enough. Please start doing the interviews. The second part is supposed to be the introduction which needs to be polished. There is no need to talk about the local stars in detail as they are not the focus. As you already included some references, why not make use of the content and the concepts mentioned in these articles in the introduction? In fact, you need a theoretical framework. Please review 'encoding/decoding' model covered in Media Culture 1. This is relevant and applicable to your research.

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