March 11, 2021
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The South Korean boy band BTS is continuing its meteoric rise in the music industry garnering its first ever Grammy nomination this year, as well as the first nomination for K-pop.
Shin Dong Kim, mass communications professor at Hallym University: And there has been some attention on the fandom, the peculiar aspect of K-pop fandom, for example, Army for BTS…
But BTS and K-pop didn t come out of nowhere. K-pop has been steadily growing its global presence dubbed Hallyu, or the Korean Wave by followers and other groups to pave the way for BTS include the Wonder Girls, Twice, Big Bang and PSY.