THE POPULARITY OF KOREAN MUSIC (K-POP) AMONG PERANAKAN CmNESE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF SOEGIJAPRANATA CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

Shierly June (student of the Faculty of Letters, Soegijapranata Catholic University, whose thesis on "Korean Wave and the Understanding of Chinese Identity among Peranakan Chinese Undergraduate Students in Soegijapranata Catholic University" has been defended on J)
Ekawati Marhaenny Dukut (lecturer at the Faculty of Letters, Soegijapranata Catholic University who is currently also pursuing a doctorate degree at the American Studies Graduate Program in Gadjah Mada University, Y ogyakarta with a specialization on popular culture.)

Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature
Vol 12, No 2: December 2012

Korean Wave is one of the popular cultures that has developed in Indonesia. It comes with some special products that attract Indonesian youth. Doing a research on this, it is found that Korean music or K-Pop has noticeable popularity among 96.87% of selected peranakan Chinese undergraduate students in Soegijapranata Catholic University. This article to discusses and analyzes the phenomenon and the development of K-Pop of the factors of why the peranakan Chinese undergraduate students in Soegijapranata Catholic University are found of the Korean Wave product.