Removed from Context: The Unbearable Lightness of Korean Hip Hop

While I was surfing the web I came across an image making fun of Korean hip hop: “Typical Korean hip hop.jpg. Rapper gets pissed at nothing.” (Source: User “Gaedrip” via online community Clien [https://www.clien.net/service/])Of course, this is a joke. Hip hop is mainstream in South Korea. Plenty of Koreans enjoy listening to it. But this joke bites. As much as Koreans are interested in hip hop, a lot of them also don’t care for the music, because they think Korean rappers come off as posers —