Indonesian Journal of Contemporary Multidisciplinary Research (MODERN)
Vol.2, No.5, 2023: 859-872
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.55927/modern.v2i5.5523
E-ISSN: 2985-6108
https://journal.formosapublisher.org/index.php/modern
A Descriptive Analysis of Parasocial Interactions of Korean-Pop
Fans on Indonesian Social Media
Kiki Esa Perdana
Tanri Abeng University
Corresponding Author: Kiki Esa Perdana esaperdana@tau.ac.id
A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T
Keywords: Parsocial
Interaction, Social Media,
Kpop
Received : 2 August
Revised : 14 August
Accepted: 18 September
©2023 Perdana: This is an open-access
article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Atribusi 4.0
Internasional.
Since kim young sam’s government, South Korea
has undergone a massive expansion in the field of
culture. The Korean wave is one of their cultural
products that entered Indonesians. Many Korean
popular culture are consumed by many
indonesians, one of which is pop or korean-pop
music. By seeing this situations, the researcher is
interested in the studying the pattern of
interaction between them, especially their
parasocial interactions on social media. Social
media itself can be effective medium because it
has no place or time limitation. The results of this
study indicate that the parasocial interactions they
carry out is still carried out with asense of pride,
eventough they know the idol does not respond
back and does not even know about interaction
experimence they are having. This research uses
the desriptive analysis method because it wants to
desribe somrthing more clearly