As BTS comeback season inches closer, I’m thinking again about one of my fave nonfiction pieces I’ve written over the last few years—“‘Don’t Let Me Fly’: on Intimacy and Fame in BTS’s Map of the Soul: 7,” for the @atpost45.bsky.social Hallyu Project issue, ed. by Yin Yuan
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When it comes to the worldwide significance of Korean popular culture right now, the seven-member group BTS (or, 방탄소년단) naturally comes to mind — they are, by almost every measure, one of the most pop...
