{"id":340278,"date":"2026-03-11T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/340278\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:36:10","slug":"k-pops-growing-fandom-its-meaning-culture-music-and-why-its-more-than-just-a-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/340278\/","title":{"rendered":"K-Pop\u2019s growing fandom: Its meaning, culture, music and why it\u2019s more than just a trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Viral \u2018K-Pop Demon Hunters\u2019 is just a small part of this exploding genre\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773221770_421_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">K-Pop: Its meaning, music and more than just a \u2018trend\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Stepping in to Dublin\u2019s 3Arena for the K-Pop Forever! Tribute was like walking in to a time-mach\u00adine. Hundreds of children filled the venue, singing and dancing along with every song. It was a completely new setting, a far cry from what being a fan looked like a decade ago, and it showed just how much the culture has grown and evolved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I used to be called \u201ccringey\u201d for liking K-Pop back when the boy group EXO debuted their song Growl. Being a fan felt like something you had to hide. But seeing how popular K-Pop has become among the younger generation now makes me feel a little better \u2013 at least they don\u2019t have to experience what I did in my early teens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viral \u2018K-Pop Demon Hunters\u2019 is just a small part of this exploding genre K-Pop: Its meaning, music and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,898,278],"class_list":["post-340278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}