There is something inherently cringey about fandom—not the condition of being a fan, to which any healthy person should have been subjected at some point in their life at least, but the brand of fan ...

I’ve long been hesitant to write about BTS. When reporting on South Korea, I resisted the expected topics: Korean skin care, plastic surgery, dogmeat, and, yes, K-pop. I absorbed Western critiques of ...

BTS is back, and so is ARMY [their fandom]'s comfort place. In our Weekly K-Fix, let's discuss why BTS' reunion is exactly the massive reset that the world needs right now. As June progresses, fans of ...

SXSW is about to be invaded by the army. No, not the army you might be thinking. We’re talking about ARMY – the “Adorable Representative M.C. for Youth” – the acronym for the legion of supporters of ...