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Who Decides If BTS’s Album ‘Arirang’ is ‘Korean Enough’? | Teen Vogue

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A Korean artist does not have to be limited to using their country’s traditional instruments and speaking in their own language to be a Korean artist.

In this op-ed, writer Jiye Kim explores the question some fans are asking—is the BTS album Arirang Korean enough?—and how we think about cultural identity. Last month, a friend of mine asked how I’d celebrated Seollal. There was an underlying assumption that I would have gone about the Lunar New Year in the traditional way: eating tteokguk (rice cake soup), playing the traditional board game yutnori, and dressing in hanbok to do sebae to my elders. I had, in fact, lain listlessly on the couch through a heat wave, contemplating whether to finally finish Stranger Things. Did this make me a bad K

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