references.bib

@article{chai2024statistical,
  title={Statistical Analysis of High School and College Entrance Exam Scores in {Taiwan} with Online Data},
  author={Chai, Christine P},
  journal={Preprint on ResearchGate},
  year={2024},
  note={\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.29468.91520/1}}
}

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% Introduction and Background

% K-pop global fame

@inproceedings{sun2022identifying,
  title={Identifying the Factors Leading to the Globalization of {K-Pop}},
  author={Sun, Yixuan},
  booktitle={2022 International Conference on Science Education and Art Appreciation (SEAA 2022)},
  pages={769--776},
  year={2022},
  organization={Atlantis Press (part of Springer Nature)},
  address={Amsterdam, Netherlands},
  note={\url{https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-05-3_94}}
}

@incollection{khiun2013k-pop,
  title={{K-Pop} dance trackers and cover dancers: Global cosmopolitanization and local spatialization},
  author={Khiun, Liew Kai},
  booktitle={The Korean Wave},
  pages={165--181},
  year={2013},
  publisher={Routledge},
  address={London, United Kingdom},
  note={\url{https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315859064}}
}

@article{chen2023expansion,
  title={Expansion of {K-pop} in the Global Market},
  author={Chen, Isabella},
  journal={American Journal of Student Research},
  volume={1},
  number={1},
  pages={1--6},
  year={2023},
  note={\url{https://doi.org/10.70251/hyjr2348.1115}}
}

@article{kim2022global,
  title={K-pop's global success and its innovative production system},
  author={Kim, Joseph and Kwon, Seung-Ho},
  journal={Sustainability},
  volume={14},
  number={17},
  pages={11101},
  year={2022},
  publisher={MDPI},
  note={\url{https://doi.org/10.3390/su141711101}}
}

@article{malik2023korea-east-asia,
  title={K-pop music diffusion in {Korea} and {East Asia}: The convergence of visual technology and concrete narratives},
  author={Malik, Tariq H},
  journal={Asia Pacific Business Review},
  volume={29},
  number={5},
  pages={1251--1274},
  year={2023},
  publisher={Taylor \& Francis},
  note={\url{https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2023.2237908}}
}

% ``K-pop has constantly gained popularity and reached a wider audience. From Asia, it has spread to the rest of the world and become successful in Latin America, Africa, Europe and North America.''
@article{miroudot2024common,
  title={What's behind the {`K`}? {Common} audio features of {Korean} popular music before and after the rise of {K-pop}},
  author={Miroudot, S{\'e}bastien},
  journal={Popular Music},
  volume={0},
  number={0},
  pages={1--22},
  year={2024},
  publisher={Cambridge University Press},
  note={\url{https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143024000187}}
}

@book{lee2019k-pop,
  title={K-Pop Idols: Popular Culture and the Emergence of the {Korean} Music Industry},
  author={Lee, Hark Joon and Jin, Kyong Yoon Yong},
  year={2019},
  publisher={Lexington Books},
  address={Lanham MD, United States},
  note={\url{https://rowman.com/isbn/9781498588263}}
}

% ``the K-pop industry sources talent globally for its creative needs. Agencies maximize the quality of K-pop albums by involving the world’s premier experts in each artistic field.''
@article{kim2021success,
  title={Success factors and sustainability of the {K-pop} industry: A structural equation model and fuzzy set analysis},
  author={Kim, Joon-ho and Jung, Seung-hye and Roh, Jung-sik and Choi, Hyun-ju},
  journal={Sustainability},
  volume={13},
  number={11},
  pages={5927},
  year={2021},
  publisher={MDPI},
  note={\url{https://doi.org/10.3390/su13115927}}
}

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@article{kang2017rediscovering,
  title={Rediscovering the idols: {K-pop} idols behind the mask},
  author={Kang, Jennifer M},
  journal={Celebrity Studies},
  volume={8},
  number={1},
  pages={136--141},
  year={2017},
  publisher={Taylor \& Francis},
  note={\url{https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2016.1272859}}
}

%  ``… the way entertainment agencies produce K-Pop idols based … prospects to training and teaching singing and dancing, … Every trainee must participate in intensive training every day …''
@incollection{lee2024establishment,
  title={The Establishment of {K-Pop}: {K-Pop}'s Main Characteristics},
  author={Lee, Gyu Tag},
  booktitle={The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Music Industry Studies},
  pages={293--313},
  year={2024},
  publisher={Springer},
  address={Cham, Switzerland},
  note={\url{https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64013-1_18}}
}

% Few trainees can eventually get selected to debut and perform on stage as the company's official group.
@article{han2021k-pop,
  title={K-Pop's Ingredients of Success},
  author={Han, Chaeri and Pothong, Amy},
  journal={Journal of Student Research},
  volume={10},
  number={2},
  pages={1--11},
  year={2021},
  note={\url{https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v10i2.1431}}
}

@article{min2024competitiveness,
  title={The {K-pop} industry: Competitiveness and sustainability},
  author={Min, Byung-Seong},
  journal={International Journal of Cultural Policy},
  pages={1--17},
  year={2024},
  publisher={Taylor \& Francis},
  note={\url{https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2024.2366979}}
}

% Survivor bias: ``We will demonstrate how survivor bias distorts our perspective … survivor bias misleads us about the dangers of atomic weapons and global warming.'' 
@book{lockwood2021fooled,
  title={Fooled by the winners: How survivor bias deceives us},
  author={Lockwood, David},
  year={2021},
  publisher={Greenleaf Book Group},
  address={Austin TX, United States},
  note={\url{https://greenleafbookgroup.com/titles/fooled-by-the-winners}}
}

@article{liu2025overcrowded,
  title={K-pop's Overcrowded Market: Analyzing the Effects of Excessive Debuts on Industry Revenue and Growth},
  author={Liu, Jiaying},
  journal={Law and Economy},
  volume={4},
  number={2},
  pages={32--43},
  year={2025},
  note={\url{https://www.paradigmpress.org/le/article/view/1544}}
}

% ``life cycle of K-pop idol groups used to be five years.''
@article{cho2023leading,
  title={Leading digital business model transformation in the {K-pop} industry: The case of {SM Entertainment}},
  author={Cho, Jaeyoung and Bian, Yiyang and Lee, Jangwoo},
  journal={Asia Pacific Business Review},
  volume={29},
  number={5},
  pages={1394--1424},
  year={2023},
  publisher={Taylor \& Francis},
  note={\url{https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2023.2229761}}
}

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% K-pop Scandals

@article{yoshimitsu2020affective,
  title={Affective economics in the east {Asian} media and entertainment industry: Comparative case studies of music competition television series},
  author={Yoshimitsu, Masae},
  year={2020},
  volume={3},
  number={12},
  journal={Review of East Asian Affairs},
  note={Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Nagasaki. \url{http://54.64.218.135/dspace/bitstream/10561/1602/1/v12p83_yoshimitsu.pdf}}
}

@article{lee2021korean,
  title={The {Korean} wave as a source of implicit cultural policy: Making of a neoliberal subjectivity in a {Korean} style},
  author={Lee, Hye-Kyung and Zhang, Xiyu},
  journal={International Journal of Cultural Studies},
  volume={24},
  number={3},
  pages={521--537},
  year={2021},
  publisher={Sage Publications}, 
  address={London, United Kingdom},
  note={\url{https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877920961108}}
}

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% K-Pop Dataset Related Literature

% The English translation of Korean names look similar to each other.
@article{kim2020linguistics,
  title={The Linguistics of Name Translation: Preferred Personal and Business Names in {English}, {Korean}, and {Chinese}},
  author={Kim, Jong-Mi},
  journal={Names: A Journal of Onomastics},
  volume={68},
  number={2},
  pages={104--124},
  year={2020},
  publisher={Taylor \& Francis},
  note={\url{https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1731242}}
}

@article{padget2017difficulties,
  title={What are the difficulties of being a {Korean} pop idol and to what extent do they outweigh the benefits?},
  author={Padget, Francesca},
  year={2017},  
  journal={San Francisco, CA: Academia. edu-Share Research}
}

@article{dance2024strength,
  title={Strength and conditioning in dance: A systematic review and meta-analysis},
  author={Ngo, Jake K and Lu, Jie and Cloak, Ross and Wong, Del P and Devonport, Tracey and Wyon, Matthew A},
  journal={European Journal of Sport Science},
  volume={24},
  number={6},
  pages={637--652},
  year={2024},  
  publisher={Wiley Online Library},
  note={\url{https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsc.12111}}
}

@article{geukes2023mirror,
  title={Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest dancer of them all? {A} naturalistic lens model study on the judgment of dance performance},
  author={Geukes, K. and Hecht, V. and Utesch, T. and Bl{\"a}sing, B. and Back, M.D.},
  journal={Psychology of Sport and Exercise},
  volume={67},
  pages={102436},
  year={2023},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  note={\url{https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2023.102436}}
}

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% R code: print(citation("rmarkdown"), bibtex=TRUE)
@Manual{r-markdown,
    title = {\texttt{rmarkdown}: Dynamic Documents for $\mathsf{R}$},
    author = {JJ Allaire and Yihui Xie and Christophe Dervieux and Jonathan McPherson and Javier Luraschi and Kevin Ushey and Aron Atkins and Hadley Wickham and Joe Cheng and Winston Chang and Richard Iannone},
    year = {2024},
    note = {$\mathsf{R}$ package version 2.29. \url{https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown}}
}

% R code: citation("readxl")
@Manual{r-read-xl,
    title = {\texttt{readxl}: Read Excel Files},
    author = {Hadley Wickham and Jennifer Bryan},
    year = {2023},
    note = {$\mathsf{R}$ package version 1.4.3. \url{https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readxl}}
}