Research Topic:

*The good influence brought by the K-pop into teenagers.

Title:
*Positive Effects Brought by the K-pop into Teenagers Students of Tabaco
National High School
Background Study:
K-pop is a genre of popular music originating in South Korea while the
modern K-pop can be traced back to the early 90s, the term itself has been popular
since the 2000s, replacing the term GAYO, which also refers to domestic pop music
in South Korea. Although it generally indicates “popular music” within South Korea,
the term is often used in narrower sense to describe a modern from around the world
such as experimental rock, jazz, gospel, RGB, Hip hop, reggae, electronic dance, folk,
country and electrical on top of its traditional Korean music roots.
K-pop is one of the most trend to us teenagers. There are lots of K-pop
groups that we adore. They influence Teenage through their songs. Many K-pop fan
were fascinated about K- idols, especially now, their popularity is not only in Korean
but worlds wide. K-pop groups invaded the mind, the soul and the hearts of K-pop
fans. Even in their young age they’re been influenced by K-pop even though they
can’t understand the meaning of the song. They keep on singing it. K-pop also
influences teenage through their dancing many fans was fascinated by how their
favorite K-group danced so they try to learn it themselves by practicing and watching
tutorials about the choreography and steps of the dance. Many of K-idols also appear
on tv that’s why it became ore hit teenage woman nowadays is so dreamy and they
often dream about having their perfect man K-pop fans also imitates the look of their
favorite group, the outfit of K-pop has been adopted by most of the teenage K-pop
fan.
Most of all, K-pop influenced people with their music followed by their
amazing choreography, visuals, and miserable attitudes, and behaviors, fashions,
styles and more. Teenagers that has been influenced by K-pop often become friendly,
confident, open-minded and becomes more inspired and had more goals in life that
wanted to achieve in the future. We are sure not all teenager had been influenced by
K-pop but there’s still a lot of K-pop fans that knows how to handle and not to put
themselves at the point that many affects their lives. You may think that K-pop is just
for girls well it is not there are also boys who idolize K-pop but there are more female
teenagers who likes K-pop has now even spread outside of Korea Thanks to the to the
internet. People all over the world now enjoy K-pop, even though they don’t
necessarily understand the worlds. K-pop has formed many lifelong friendships.
K-pop has positive influenced to the teenagers because K-pop teaches the
teenagers to develop their hidden talent. They are inspiring the youth for them to
boast their confidence in terms of talent and fashion. There is nothing wrong about
idolizing Koreans and copying their fashion because it makes us better persons. And
because you are inspired by them, you are more creative doing your passion.
Sometimes passion really helps you as a youth because your time are worth it than to
do useless things. K-pop has a big impact on each K-pop fan not just for social media
purposes but also for personal and academic purposes.

Scope and Delimitation:

The purpose of this study is to enhance the abilities or skills and talents of
the teenagers who got addicted to K-pop. And our study focuses on the students that
are avid fan of K-pop in Tabaco National High School.
This study aimed to analyze the positive impact of idolizing K-pop to
teenager students of Tabaco National High School from January to April 2020.
Currently in Tabaco National High School there are many students who are
valid fan of K-pop. This study will make us understand the goodness and positivity
brought by idolizing K-pop. We will sight reasons why these students admire K-pop.
The researcher will conduct a survey and interview to know the good effects
of idolizing K-pop in the life of grade 12 students in Tabaco National High School.

Significance of the Study:

 Conducting this study will benefit primary and secondary beneficiary
where in they would know the positive effects of idolizing K-pop will help them
inspired themselves and others who has no confidence to know their hidden talents
both K-pop and non-K-pop.
*Students (non- K-pop fan). This study explains to them why K-pop is dominating to
people all over the world. And to influence them to be a fan to idolize K-pop group.
This study also makes non-K-pop fan fully understand that there is nothing to be a K-
pop fan.
*Parents (of the K-pop fan). This study will explain why their children are addicted to
K-pop and it will make them understand the positivity brought by idolizing K-pop
improve their children.
*Teacher (of the K-pop fan). The study will explain how students improve their
academic performance by idolizing K-pop. It will show that a student whom is a valid
fan a K-pop confident, participating during in class.

Related Review of Literature

*Korean journal of communication and information. (2014)
Effect of new Hallyu Influence of K-pop consumption on Chinese attitude
toward Korean and Hallyu as K-pop has gained its popularity all over the world. The
Result indicated that gender, duration of watching Korean TV drama, the evaluation
of Korean TV dramas, duration of listening K-pop and evaluation of K-pop are strong
predictors influencing attitude toward Korea among Chinese people. On the other
hand, in relation to Hallyu, demographic factors are not appeared as the predictors,
however duration of Korea TV dramas and evaluation of K-pop has been shown to
influence the attitude toward Hallyu in a positive way.
The influence of K-pop in Indonesia’s student behavior
*International Journal of management and applied science 3, (2017)
This research is aimed to explain the influence of K-pop to the habit of
students through quantitative methods. Nowadays, the globalization has brought a lot
of impact in life and create world into borderless. In due to the borderless, it makes a
lot of things could come to country easily such as cultures. One of the cultures are K-
pop which is brought from South Korean tradition. Currently, K-pop got the attention
from the citizen around the world including Indonesia. And students in Indonesia
mostly they like K-pop. Because of K-pop. It has changed student’s behavior such as
student’s appearance, communication and the methods of learning.
(2015)
Korean wave is a new phenomenon which signifies the spread of Korean
popular culture in East Asia with Japan as a center the purpose of this study is to
examine the attitude of Japanese youths who consumes K-pop on the subject of their
feelings towards fieldwork in Tokyo, this study aims to answer the question is the
consumption of Korean popular culture by Japanese youths affects their perception of
Korean and Korean society, the way it affects it and what are the main factors
producing action with the cautions remark of little scope of the generalizing. The
findings conclude that the constant consumption of Korean popular culture products
indeed affects the perception of Japanese youths regarding South Korea in a positive
way.
Eun Mo Byun (2014)
As a result of Korean government’s efforts sell its cultural assets acquiring
global popularity and consumption called the Korean wave was created since the
success of the Koreans wave, it has generated the number of Korean Celebrity
endorsed brands’ products in global regions including Thailand. This research seeks
to examine the impact of Korean (K-pop) Celebrity endorsement on Thai brand image
though achieving two the research objectives were 1) to identify the perceived
qualifies (likeability, credibility and similarity with the brand) of K-pop celebrities in
the eyes of Thai consumers to determine their influence on consumer attitudes and
behaviors and 20 to gather the insights of marketers from Thai brans that have
employed K-pop endorsers for a comparative analysis with the consumer perception.
Jungah Ahn (2014)
 Although the Korean wave originated in china, its presence in this country had
been falter for some time. Recently, however, Korean wave star centered K-drama via
online video websites, Korean wave TV programs with high ratings, and idol group
centered K-pop with globalization strategies are all popular in china ones again. The
purpose of this paper to explore Chinese teens and twenty years old as the main
consumer of Korean popular culture and how preferred genres motives and behaviors
of Korean pop culture use and Korean image affects one another.
According to the study results, media use via online video service was most
common and among the preferred genres, K-drama has the highest usage rates, in
addictions, it was discovered with the use of Korean pop culture had a considerable
influence on a positive Korean image.
Related review of Study
Nissim Otmazgin, rina Lyan (2013)
This study examines that role of fan communities in Israel and Palestine play
in the transcultural dissemination of Korean popular music or K-pop. Based on in-
depth interviews with fans, a survey of K-pop online communities discourse analysis
of online discussions and participation in K-pop gatherings, this article examines the
practice of K-pop its localization and institutionalization and its influence on the
Identities of fans special attention is given to the role of K-pop fans as cultural
mediators who create necessary bridges between the music industry and local
consumers and thus play a role in globalizing cultures. Typical literature on the
globalization of popular culture either utilizes a top down approach, depicting
powerful media instructions as making people across the world consumers their
product or emphasizes a bottom up resistance to the imposition of foreign cultures and
values.
Seong Cheol Choi (2014)
Previous study of the Korean wave and have focused mainly on fan clubs by
taking a focused ethnographic approach in the context of countries in South East Asia
and in minor extension Europe. This study fills the gap in the literature by providing a
social network analysis of tweets in the context of Mexico. We used the twitter
comments with the hashtags #K-pop from March to August 2012, analyzing them
with a set of webometric methodologies. The result indicates that #K-pop power
Twitterinians in Mexico were more likely to be related to the public television
broadcast. The sent tweet was usually related to their programs and promotion of K-
pop artists.
Jungboi Choi (2014)
K-pop described by time magazine in 2012 as South Korea’s greatest export
has rapidly achieved a large worlds wide audience of devoted fans, largely worlds
wide audience through distribution over the internet. This book examines the
phenomenon and discusses the reasons for its success. It considers the national and
transitional conditions that have played a role in K-pop is ascendency and explores
how they relate to colonial moderation, post-cold war politics in East Asia,
connections with the Korea and the state campaign to accumulate soft power as it is
particularly concerned with fandom and cultural agency, it analyzes fan practices
discourses and underlying psychologies within their local habitus, as well as in
expanding topographies of online networks overall the book addresses the question of
how Asia culture can be global in a true meaningful way.
sunJung (2011)
Around the world, pop consumers are increasingly accesing popular products
through social media. Online fan groups of Korean popular music (K-pop) in Asia
have dynamically and transculturally circulated their product through social media
such as Facebook and Twitter. In October 2010, Super Junior a K-pop idol boy band,
was ranked as the number one worldwide trending topic on Twitter ranking even
higher than a sensational news story about trapped Chilean Miner. Regional fans in
Indonesia in a particular have been infentified as the source of a spike in tweet on this
topic such a phenomenon illustrate how social media empowered online fandom
enhance cultural flows and affects transcultural pop circulation dynamics.

Sang-Yeon Sung (2014)

K-pop popularity and its participatory fan culture have expanded beyond
Asia and become significant in Europe in the past few years. After South Korean pop
singer PSY’S “Gangnam Style” music video topped the Austrian chart in October
2012, the number and size of kpop events in Austria sharply increased, with fans
organizing various participatory events, including K-pop Auditons dance festival and
smaller fan culture gatherings. In a private sector, longtime fans have transitioned
from participants to provides and in the public sector from the observers to sponsors
through on depth interviews with event organizer, sponsor and fans, this article offers
an ethograpic study of the reception of K-pop in Europe.
 Tabaco National High School
Tabaco City

“Positive Effects Brought by K-pop into Teenager Students of Tabaco National High

School”

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for Research Study of Practical Research II

Prepared by:

Mary Ann Folloso

Kenneth Bragais
Angeline Cunanan
Carol Gabe
Edward Bobis

`12 – HUMSS D

Submitted to:
Ms. Mary Chissette Pernecita
Subject Teacher