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Front Row: K-Pop and the South Korean music industry, poet Kate Fox, touring shows in Europe post Brexit

K-Pop and the South Korean music industry, poet Kate Fox, touring shows in Europe post Brexit

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, K-Pop and the South Korean music industry, poet Kate Fox, touring shows in Europe post Brexit

K-Pop and the South Korean music industry, Kate Fox,  touring shows in Europe post Brexit.

K-Pop bands such as BTS and BlackPink and the South Korean music industry, Kate Fox on her new collection The Oscillations, post Brexit will UK theatre tours in Europe be viable?

Is listening to K-Pop like buying sweatshop-made clothes? From rigorous childhood performance academies to long, labour-intensive contracts for young idols, does the South Korean music industry have an exploitation problem? High profile suicides, sexual harassment claims and industry standards are complicating the nature of the industry and the fandom as it booms in the English speaking world. Musicologist Haekyung Um and journalist Taylor Glasby weigh in. 

Poet Kate Fox talks about her new collection The Oscillations, exploring distance and isolation in the age of the pandemic, refracted through the lenses of neurodiversity and trauma in poems that are bold, funny and open-hearted in their self-discoveries.

Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic Tom Morris and Matt Hemley from The Stage discuss the viability of touring UK stage shows in Europe post Brexit as the National Theatre announce today that their planned European tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will not go ahead.

Presenter:  Kirsty Lang
Producer:  Hilary Dunn

Main image: The K-pop girl group BlackPink on stage
Image credit: Rich Fury/Getty Images

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