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Dr. Veronika Keller

@veronikakeller.bsky.social

Musicologist with a variety of interests: transnational popular culture from the 1900s till 1980s, K-Dramas, J-Dramas, rice cookers playing Freude Schöner Götterfunken

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Dr. Veronika Keller @veronikakeller.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Seems Kim Young-kwang can't bee in a RomCom without monitoring his heartrate :) #SecretLifeOfMySecretary #TakeChargeOfMyHeart

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Dr. Veronika Keller @veronikakeller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

But, researching a tiny field can also be annoying, because among the six papers you find, two are identical, one is full of mistakes, two have basically no references and the last one is now 20 years old.

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Dr. Veronika Keller @veronikakeller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Researching a tiny field, you always at one point stumble across an article which was just a rewriting of one, you already read, and suddenly you have your Friday off.

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Dr. Veronika Keller @veronikakeller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[CW: violance] Reading through short biographies of 1970s Korean pop artists: male artists: he was known for being abusive, violent, cheated... female artists: her face was cut with a soju bottle after she rejected her manager

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Dr. Veronika Keller @veronikakeller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Watching "The March of Fools" (Korea, 1975), and the female lead not once but twice smacks down a man who thinks her no means, keep going. And without much discussion. Very refreshing.

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Dr. Veronika Keller @veronikakeller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After hearing one too many times in J-Dramas, that early 40s is basically the new 90s and your life is over, it is very refreshing, that in "The Ordinary Jackpot" everybody calls Lee Jun Hyuk, who is in his early 40s, "young" all the time.

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Dr. Veronika Keller @veronikakeller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For my very first post trying to be on brand: It is fascinating, that kisaeng (female Korean artists from Joseon era, mostly labeled under ‘courtesan’) played a central role in the early music recording industry in Korea.

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