{"id":445223,"date":"2026-01-31T13:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/445223\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T13:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:31:11","slug":"chasing-g-dragon-inside-the-world-of-k-pop-fandom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/445223\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing G-Dragon: Inside the world of K-pop fandom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SEOUL &#8212; K-pop, South Korea&#8217;s globally influential music ecosystem, has seen its biggest hits top the U.S. Billboard charts, earn Grammy nominations and rack up record-breaking numbers on streaming platforms such as YouTube and Spotify. More recently, the genre has reached a new milestone: K-pop artists have joined the small circle of stars capable of selling out stadiums around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL &#8212; K-pop, South Korea&#8217;s globally influential music ecosystem, has seen its biggest hits top the U.S. Billboard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,157395,75,57080,42195,10069,341,3275],"class_list":["post-445223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chasing","tag-entertainment","tag-fandom","tag-g-dragon","tag-k-pop","tag-music","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}