CFP: Special Issue of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (15.2 2026) on K-Pop, deadline 15th June 2026.

With KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix, 2025) making history at the 2026 Academy Awards, winning best animated feature and its viral hit song "Golden" winning best original song, the phenomenon of K-pop has firmly established itself on the global cultural stage. This special themed issue seeks to explore the “Korean wave” in contemporary popular culture, particularly through the explosion of K-pop, to examine its transnational and transmedial virality across forms and genres, fandoms and identities, and varying representations of storytelling, narrative, and world-building creation. This issue welcomes submissions from disciplines including film and media studies; Korean studies; cultural studies; celebrity, fandom and reception studies; genre studies; gender studies; performance studies and beyond.

The deadline for submissions of full articles for consideration in the K-Pop Special Issue is 15th June 2026.  

• Articles should be between 5,000-7,000 words and referenced using the Harvard style system.
• All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.