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michelle hyun kim https://michellehyunkim.com michelle hyun kim Wed, 14 Feb 2024 15:32:00 +0000 https://michellehyunkim.com en editing http://michellehyunkim.com/editing Wed, 14 Feb 2024 15:32:00 +0000 michelle hyun kim 451713 Michelle Hyun Kim is a writer, editor, and curator based in Brooklyn. home about me editorial writing editing speaking & appearances contact     EditingSelected stories I’ve edited. The 100 Greatest Songs in the History of Korean Pop Music | Rolling Stone Lucy Liyou Is the Genre-Defying Artist Using Computerized Voice to Say the Unspeakable by Sasha Geffen | Them My Queer and Palestinian Identities Will Always Be Entanged by George Abraham | Them Deb Never Makes Boundless Pop for a Rule-Breaking Generation by Lio Min | Them As a Young Trans Girl, Anorexia Was My Gender’s First Love by Aerin Cho | Them Trans Autistic People Use Our Whole Bodies to Express Joy by Elly Belle | Them4 Queer South Asian Designers Pioneering Genderless, Sustainable Fashion by Zinara Rathnayake | Them  Michelle Hyun Kim is a writer, editor, and curator based in Brooklyn. home about me editorial writing editing speaking & appearances contact    ... appearances http://michellehyunkim.com/appearances Thu, 17 Feb 2022 21:38:48 +0000 michelle hyun kim 419831 Michelle Hyun Kim is a writer, editor, and curator based in Brooklyn. home about me editorial writing editing speaking & appearances contact     Speaking & Appearances <img width="3008" height="2008" width_o="3008" height_o="2008" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/dbc442cc0cc226671cd2365dbd96b3f6e898af0160a7565c900563a8a37722fc/F3BB5DD4-4A6F-4F48-B2E8-CBE95DCDDDFA.JPG" data-mid="1319231" border="0" /> PANELS, CONVERSATIONS, AND LECTURESWith a Hammer Yaeji listening event at Nowadays (2023) “On Asian Diasporic Pop Artists and Cultural World Building” keynote lecture at Yale Asian American Cultural Center, speaker (2022) Reporting on Trauma class at University of Minnesota, guest lecturer (2022) Reporting Gender class at Marymount Manhattan College, guest lecturer (2021) MoPOP Pop Conference: Stuck in My Head roundtable, speaker (2020) Girls Write Now Mentorship Program, guest speaker (2019) Migos “Culture Class” at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU, co-moderator (2017) <img width="1600" height="1200" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/fe693fa48f04994a6e289d14126c3197f7c9a44e95f796c2d4324eba58b56a84/JPxJJW---4-1.jpeg" data-mid="1166342" border="0" /> ON CAMERA  “Making Jjajangmyeon with Michelle Zauner,” Them editorial video (2021) Michelle Hyun Kim is a writer, editor, and curator based in Brooklyn. home about me editorial writing editing speaking & appearances contact    ... about http://michellehyunkim.com/about Thu, 17 Feb 2022 21:28:56 +0000 michelle hyun kim 419830 Michelle Hyun Kim is a writer, editor, and curator based in Brooklyn. home about me editorial writing editing speaking & appearances contact     About Me <img width="2003" height="2003" width_o="2003" height_o="2003" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/b00e223d4ec8ad00df9ca1382fdbe3146c433cc082658318792fd59ecf4c08d1/NEWPROPIC-copy.jpg" data-mid="1361938" border="0" /> Photo by Atoosa Moinzadeh Michelle Hyun Kim is an award-winning writer, editor, curator, researcher, and speaker whose work centers artists who create outside the borders of genre, language, and geography. Their reporting and criticism been published by The Guardian, GQ, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, W Magazine, NPR Music, Pitchfork, Teen Vogue, and others.Throughout their nine years as a reporter and critic, they have interviewed everyone from international pop stars—from members of BTS to Hikaru Utada—to indie and experimental music vanguards, gaining insight into the creative and emotional process behind works that have inspired new subgenres, subcultures, and emerging media trends. As a former staff writer at Pitchfork and editor at Them, Kim has covered everything from TikTok linguistics, queer iconography, chronic dissociation, viral dance challenge ownership, and the symbol of the cowboy.  Born in South Korea, Kim is now based in Brooklyn, New York. PUBLICATIONS The Guardian GQGQ JapanNew York Magazine Rolling StonePitchforkNPR MusicBuzzfeed NewsTeen VogueGRAMMY.comThe FADER MixMag Crack Magazine The Creative Independent How Music Charts Liner Notes The Amp RECOGNITION2022 NLGJA Award in Food Coverage: “Crying In Michelle Zauner’s Kitchen” | Them 2021 NLGJA Award for Excellence in Business Coverage: Queer Spaces Project | Them 2021 Periplus Fellow CLIENTS Warner Music GroupCapitol Music GroupDef Jam Interscope RecordsIsland Records Virgin MusicXL Recordings Dirty Hit Domino Records Merge Records Ninja Tune Dropbox Citi/Mastercard Third Bridge CreativeMoment House Ceros CURATIONSound Signal 2021 Jaded Media SXSW showcase FEATURED IN Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs podcast, guest The Guardian: “Fans Feel Shortchanged by K-pop Ticketing,” expert source France Info: “How BTS Became One of the Most Influential (and Profitable) Groups in the World,” expert source 89.3 KPCC: The Frame, radio interview Michelle Hyun Kim is a writer, editor, and curator based in Brooklyn. home about me editorial writing editing speaking & appearances contact    ... portfolio http://michellehyunkim.com/portfolio Thu, 17 Feb 2022 21:10:58 +0000 michelle hyun kim 419829 Michelle Hyun Kim is a writer, editor, and curator based in Brooklyn. home about me editorial writing editing speaking & appearances contact    Selected Works MOST RECENT ‘It’s a marathon, not a sprint’: surviving the 50-hour, non-stop techno festival | The Guardian If No One is Dancing, You’re at the Wrong Club | Hearing Things ‘My scars aren’t a finish line’: three trans and non-binary people on how top surgery changed their lives | The Guardian The Future Sounds Like Ateez | GQ Robert Ouyang Rusli Captures the Absurdities of Being an Immigrant Through Music | The Amp Erika de Casier Makes a Y2K Sound All Her Own | W Magazine  COVER STORIESRina Sawayama’s Big Feelings | ThemHow Yaeji Found Her Voice | MixMag Ethel Cain: Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Crack Magazine Arooj Aftab Is Reimagining the Music of Centuries Past, and Making History as She Goes | Crack MagazineAnna Cathcart Steps Into Her Own Spotlight in XO, Kitty | Teen Vogue Haley Kiyoko: Feeling It All | Them Lachlan Watson Wants to Play Every Role in the World | Them  OTHER PROFILES & INTERVIEWS V Shares the Journey That Led to Layover | Rolling Stone Ella Mai Just Wants to Have Fun | Vulture Crying in Michelle Zauner’s Kitchen | Them Breaking the Boundaries of Language and Genre, Hikaru Utada Finds Freedom | NPR MusicBeabadoobee on Fairies, Shrooms, and Standing Up for Her Vision | Rolling Stone girl in red listens to girl in red | HighSnobiety Bolis Pupul on Being Inspired By Your Environment | The Creative Independent The Ever-Expanding World of SEVENTEEN’s Vernon | Teen Vogue Get to Know 070 Shake, G.O.O.D. Music’s Shape-Shifting Secret Weapon | Pitchfork Phoebe Bridgers Is the Spooky Prophet of End Times America | Them How Is Raveena Surviving the Apocalypse? By Making a New Album | ThemLaufey Opens Up About Life on the Road | Teen Vogue Wet Leg On How A 6-Week Sleepover Spawned Their ‘Jaggedy’ Indie Rock — And Global Fame | GRAMMY.com Salamanda Create Imagined Worlds That Feel Both Familiar and Strange | Crack Magazine Meet 100 gecs, the Absurdist Pop Duo Inspired By Everything on the Internet | Them How Rico Nasty’s Rapper Dad, Churchgoing Mom, and Bossy Son Help Shape Her Music | PitchforkRyuichi Sakamoto’s Son on Directing His Father’s Final Concert Film, Opus | Pitchfork  CRITICISM & ESSAYS BTS Leader RM Pushes Against the Weight of Fame, Looks Towards a Bright Future on ‘Indigo’ | Rolling Stone Narrative Playlists Bring Storytelling Back to Music in an Algorithmic World | The Distance Charli XCX: Charli album review | PitchforkAre Ghosts Gay Canon?: A Review of Angel Olsen’s Big Time | Creem Mag How William Basinski’s Masterpiece, The Disintegration Loops, Captured a World Crumbling Around us In Slow Motion | Crack MagazineHow Solange and Mitski Reconsider Who Can Be the Cowboy | Pitchfork REPORTING Act Local, Broadcast Global: Seoul Community Radio's Rise | Liner Notes Inside the Bunny Hat’s Global Craze | NYLONIceland’s LGBTQ+ Music Scene Is Beautiful, Bold, and Daringly Creative | Them 5 People Describe Their Experience With Dissociation | BuzzFeed News How My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way Became a Queer Icon | Them ‘Do You Listen to Girl in Red?’: How a Queer Pop Artist Became TikTok Code | ThemCorporate Swag-Jacking: How Can ‘Fortnite’ Profit Off BlocBoy JB’s ‘Shoot’ Dance? | PitchforkHow the Record Industry Is Trying to Make Vinyl More Environmentally Friendly | Pitchfork GUIDES 8 Essential J-Hope Songs | Vulture The 100 Greatest Songs in the History of Korean Pop Music | Rolling Stone TRENDS & ANALYSIS How “Slowcore” Blew Up With Gen-Z on TikTok—Thanks to ‘90s Band Duster | How Music Charts LIVE REVIEWS Solange’s Collaboration With the New York City Ballet Is a Treat for the Eyes and Ears | Pitchfork Was Frank Ocean’s PrEP+ Party the Inclusive Queer Utopia He Promised? | ThemArca’s New York Residency Is a Chaotic Deconstruction of the Pop Diva | Pitchfork What Does an Ancient Pot Sound Like? | Pitchfork Michelle Hyun Kim is a writer, editor, and curator based in Brooklyn. home about me editorial writing editing speaking & appearances contact    ... Home Page http://michellehyunkim.com/Home-Page Thu, 12 Nov 2015 01:46:26 +0000 michelle hyun kim 419481 Michelle Hyun Kim is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn.My writing on music and culture has been published by The Guardian, GQ, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, NPR Music, Teen Vogue, W Magazine, and other outlets. I’m currently the features copy editor at The Guardian US. Previously, I was an editor at Them and staff writer at Pitchfork.  I’ve contributed to the agency Third Bridge Creative, where I researched and analyzed trends in music and digital culture.I’m available for select freelance work at meeshkakim [at] gmail [dot] com.  Sign up for my newsletter The Interlude  home about me editorial writing editing speaking & appearances contact     Latest Stories<img width="1240" height="992" width_o="1240" height_o="992" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/5f0f99a5eb35d1c0bf7f2505224acd5dc4ff526bcc02719d9a9eba7afeb5da0e/5624.jpg" data-mid="1411762" border="0" />‘It’s a marathon, not a sprint’: surviving the 50-hour, non-stop techno festival | The Guardian If No One is Dancing, You’re at the Wrong Club | Hearing Things ‘My scars aren’t a finish line’: three trans and non-binary people on how top surgery changed their lives | The Guardian The Future Sounds Like Ateez | GQ Robert Ouyang Rusli Captures the Absurdities of Being an Immigrant Through Music | The AmpErika de Casier Makes a Y2K Sound All Her Own | W Magazine See more  Michelle Hyun Kim is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn.My writing on music and culture has been published by The Guardian, GQ, New York...