If there was ever a match made in Heaven, it’s TikTok and K-Pop. A lot of what we see on the app, like fancams, stan accounts, and the whole fandom industrial complex has its origins in South Korea.
At the PopRox dance studio on Capitol Hill on a hot August day, nine students and an instructor somberly walked toward the mirrors on the wall, dragging their feet. As percussion rattled into a chorus ...