Journal of Language and Literature ISSN: 1410-5691 (print); 2580-5878 (online) Sendy Intania Hermastuti & Arina Isti’anah 28 Consonant Changes in Korean Singers’ Pronunciation Sendy Intania Hermastuti & Arina Isti’anah sendinher1535@gmail.com & arina@usd.ac.id English Letters Department, Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta Abstract Music industry in Indonesia is now filled with many genres or types of music. One of them that is very famous nowadays is a music genre called K-pop or Korean pop, originating from South Korea. In line with the development of K-pop music that continues worldwide, Korean singers start making English songs. There were two objectives to be discussed in this article: to find out the consonants that are usually changed or replaced by Korean singers and find the phonological patterns found in the consonant changes. Phonological approach was conducted by involving purposive sampling technique to collect the data. Songs by Wonder Girls, Super Junior, Bigbang, and CN Blue were analyzed in terms of the consonant changes that occurred in Korean singers’ pronunciation. The analysis showed that there were 7 English consonants that underwent changes in Korean singers’ pronunciation. Fricatives are found as the consonants that usually undergo a change. Furthermore, the phonological processes that were usually found in those consonant changes were the process of changing fricatives into stops or affricate consonants, process of changing [r] into [l], and the last is the process of palatalization. Keywords: consonant change, Korean, phonology. Introduction Language is a tool for communication in written or spoken words. It is used by the people of a particular country or area in order to communicate to each other. There are many languages spoken by human beings in this world. However, the language that is recognized as one of the most widely spoken language is English, which now becomes a language that is used internationally. Besides used as a native language in some countries, English is also used as a foreign language in many other countries. In the countries that regard English as a foreign language, the use of English by the non-native speakers of English serves “the purpose as a vehicle for science, for the mass media (press, radio, television), and some kinds of international entertainment” (Strevens, 1980: 62). Talking about the use of English in some kinds of international entertainment, we will certainly come to think about the use of it in songs. In Indonesia, Korean songs nowadays have become the most popular song among youngster music enthusiasts. Korean songs become popular along with the entrance of Korean pop culture in Indonesia. From about 10 years ago, K-pop has been well spread not only in Indonesia, but also throughout the world. Its fame has been mentioned by Kim (2016:3) “South Korea’s entertainment industry has grown substantially since 1990s, producing Asia-wide and other parts of the world’s successes in music”. As a result, many Korean singers recently start producing many English songs so that they can attract more music enthusiasts outside their country to listen to their music. Besides their own English songs, some Korean singers also produce the remake of the existed English songs by international singers, then they sing those songs again in a different arrangement. In some other cases, Korean singers often get a request to sing English songs written or sung by an American or