my thesis' ongoing works citedPeruse this for many informative readings (plus some other stuff thrown in): (My thesis is on Seo Taiji 서태지, his music and masculinity 남성성)
Changnŭbyŏl at'sŭt'ŭ:Rok (Taep'yogasu). (2005, June 12). Retrieved June 13, 2005, from http://music.bugs.co.kr/music/ArtistGenre.asp?country=kpop&genre_code=4.
Abelmann, Nancy. (2003). The melodrama of mobility: Women, talk, and class in contemporary South Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
Baek, Sun Ki. (1996). Daejung munhwa t'eksŭtŭ-ŭi 'daŭisŏng' gwa suyongja 'haedok' – Sŏ T’aeji-wa aidŭl ŭi "Comeback Home" e daehan wuarrisŭ ŭi punsŏkt'ŭl jŏkyongŭl jungshimŭro (The sign in today's society, ' plurality ' of meaning and reader's ' decipherment ' of mass culture texts - the case of Seo Taiji's "Comeback Home"). Kihohakǒngu, 2, 211-258.
Baranovitch, Nimrod. (2003). China's new voices: Popular music, ethnicity, gender, and politics, 1978-1997. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Bradby, Barbara, & Laing, David. (2001). Introduction to 'Gender and Sexuality' special issue. Popular Music, 20(3), 295-300.
Cheng, Sea-ling. (2000). Assuming manhood: Prostitution and patriotic passions in Korea. East Asia: An International Quarterly, 18(4), 40-78.
Cho, Han Haejoang. (2000). "You are entrapped in an imaginary well": the formation of subjectivity within compressed development - a feminist critique of modernity and Korean culture. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 1(1), 49-69.
Choi, Chung-moo. (1998). Nationalism and construction of gender in Korea. In E. H. Kim & C. Choi (Eds.), Dangerous women: gender and Korean nationalism (pp. 9-31). New York, NY: Routledge.
Choi, Chung-moo. (2002). The politics of gender aestheticism and cultural nationalism in Sopyonje and The Genealogy. In D. James & K. H. Kim (Eds.), Im Kwon-Taek: The making of a Korean national cinema. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
Choi, Jung-ah. (2005). New generation's career aspirations and new ways of marginalization in a postindustrial economy. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 26(6), 269-283.
Connell, R. W. (1995). Masculinities. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Connell, R. W. (2000). The men and the boys. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, in association with Blackwell Publishers.
Chung, Hee-joon. 2003. Sports star vs rock star in globalizing popular culture. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 38(1), 99-108.
Darling-Wolf, Fabienne. (2003). Male Bonding and Female Pleasure: Refining Masculinity in Japanese Popular Cultural Texts. Popular Communication, 1(2), 73-88.
Darling-Wolf, Fabienne. (2004). SAMP, sex, and masculinity: Constructing the perfect female fantasy in Japanese popular music. Popular Music and Society, 27(3), 358-370.
Dibben, Nicola. (2002). Constructions of femininity in 1990s girl-group music. Feminism and Psychology, 12(2), 168-175.
Dunn, Leslie C., & Jones, Nancy A. (Eds.). (1994). Embodied voices: representing female vocality in Western culture. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.
Fast, Susan. (2001). In the houses of the Holy: Led Zeppelin and the power of rock music. New York: Oxford University Press.
Feigon, Lee. (1994). Gender and the Chinese student movement. In J. N. Wasserstrom & E. J. Perry (Eds.), Popular protest and political culture in modern China (2nd ed., pp. 125-135). Boulder: Westview Press.
Fung, Anthony, & Curtin, Michael. (2002). The anomalies of being Faye (Wong): Gender politics in Chinese popular music. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 5(3), 263-290.
Hearn, Jeff. (2004). From hegemonic masculinity to the hegemony of men. Feminist Theory, 5(1), 49-72.
Hosakawa, Shuhei. (2002). Blacking Japanese: experiencing otherness from afar. In D. Hesmondhalgh & K. Negus (Eds.), Popular Music Studies (pp. 223-237). London: Arnold.
Howard, Keith. (1998). Blending the wine and stretching the wineskins: New Korean music for old Korean instruments. In S.-c. Yi (Ed.), Yi Hyegu paksa 90 kinyom umakhak non'go (Essays in Honour of Prof. Lee Hye-Ku's 90th Birthday) (pp. 503-535). Seoul: Seoul National University.
Howard, Keith. (2002). Exploding ballads: The transformation of Korean pop music. In R. King & T. J. Craig (Eds.), Global goes local: Popular culture in Asia (pp. 80-95). Vancouver: UBC Press.
Jager, Sheila M. (1996). Women, resistance and the divided nation: The romantic rhetoric of Korean reunification. The Journal of Asian Studies, 55(1), 3-21.
Jager, Sheila Miyoshi. (2002). Monumental histories: Manliness, the military, and the War Memorial. Public Culture, 14(2), 387-409.
Jung, Eun-Young. Forthcoming. The role of Korean popular music in the creation of a new generation's cultural identity: The music of Seo Taiji. In K. Howard (Ed.), Riding the ‘Korean Wave’: Pop music for a new Korea, pop music for a new Asia: Routledge.
Keil, Charles. (1994). Motion and feeling through music. In C. Keil & S. Feld (Eds.), Music grooves: Essays and dialogues. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Killick, Andrew P. (1991). Nationalism and internationalism in new music for Korean instruments. Korea Journal, 31(3), 104-116.
Kim, Dong Sik. (2004, February 6). Tashi mannan So T'ae Chi (Seo Taiji revisited). Chugan Hankuk.
Kim, Hyernsup. (1997). Seo Taiji: a Sample Approach to Korean Sub-Culture in the First Half of the 1990's. Unpublished MA paper, City University, London.
Kim, Hyun Mee. 2001. Work, Nation and Hypermasculinity: The 'Woman' Question in the Economic Miracle and Crisis in South Korea. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2(1), 53-68.
Kim, Hyun Mee (Translated by Hong Sung Hee). (2004). Feminization of the 2002 World Cup and women’s fandom. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 5(1), 42 - 51.
Kim, Kyung Hyun. (2004). The remasculinization of Korean cinema. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
Kim, Seung-kyung, & Finch, John. (2002). Living with rhetoric, living against rhetoric: Korean families and the IMF economic crisis. Korean Studies, 26(1), 120-139.
Kim, Taeyon. (2003). Neo-Confucian body techniques: Women's bodies in Korea's consumer society. Body and Society, 9(2), 97-113.
Lee, Aie-Rie. (2003). Stability and Change in Korean Values. Social Indicators Research, 62-64(1-3), 93 - 117.
Lee, Jooran. 2000. Remembered branches: Towards a future of Korean homosexual film. Journal of Homosexuality, 39(3-4), 273-281.
Lee, June J. H. (2002). Discourses of illness, meanings of modernity: A gendered contruction of Sŏnginbyŏng. In L. Kendall (Ed.), Under construction (pp. 55-78). Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
Lee, Kee Hyeung. (2002). Toward a cultural history in the Korean present: Locating the cultural politics of the everyday. Unpublished PhD, University of Chicago at Urban-Champaign, Urbana.
Lee, Kee Hyeung. 2000. Detraditionalization of society and the rise of cultural studies in South Korea. Inter-Asian Cultural Studies, 1(3), 477-488.
Lu, Sheldon H. (2000). Soap opera in China: The transnational politics of visuality, sexuality, and masculinity. Cinema Journal, 40(1), 25-47.
McCracken, Allison. (1999). "God's gift to us girls": Crooning, gender and the re-creation of American popular song, 1928-1933. American Music, 17(4), 365-395.
Metro Sexual: A new male image or media commodity? (2004, November 4). Retrieved November 5, 2004, from http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200411/200411030017.html.
Middleton, Richard. (2003). Singing. In J. Shepherd, D. Horn & D. Laing (Eds.), Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world (Vol. 2, pp. 164-167). London; New York: Continuum.
Middleton, Richard. (2003). Voice. In J. Shepherd, D. Horn & D. Laing (Eds.), Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world (Vol. 2, pp. 455-457). London; New York: Continuum.
Moon, Seungsook. (2002). The Production and subversion of hegemonic masculinity: Reconfiguring gender hierarchy in contemporary South Korea. In L. Kendall (Ed.), Under construction: The gendering of modernity, class, and consumption in the Republic of Korea (pp. 79-113). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Morelli, Sarah. (2001). Who is a Dancing Hero? Rap, hip-hop and dance in Korean popular culture. In T. Mitchell (Ed.), Global noise: Rap and hip-hop outside the USA. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press.
Nelson, Laura C. (2000). Measured excess: Status, gender, and consumer nationalism in South Korea. New York: Columbia University Press.
Pak, Ŭn Kyŏng. (2003). God Sŭt'adŏm kwa p'aendŏm. Seoul: Hanul.
Park, Shin-gil. (2000). Negotiating identities in a performance genre: the case of P'ungmul and Samulnori in contemporary Seoul. Unpublished PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
Party, Daniel. (2004). (Dissertation Prospectus) Placer Culpable: Globalization, gender and melodrama in Latin-American Balada. Retrieved November 17, 2004, from http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dparty/pdf/Proposal.pdf.
Robinson, Michael. (1984). National identity and the thought of Sin Ch'ae-ho: Sadaejuŭi and Chuch'e in history and politics. The Journal of Korean Studies, 5, 121-142.
Roe, Jae H. (2001). "Louder than a Bomb": The cultural politics of hardcore rap in the U.S. and Korea. Miguk Haknunjip (Journal of American Studies), 33(2), 107-120.
Sellnow, Deanna D. (1999). Music as persuasion: Refuting hegemonic masculinity in "He thinks he'll keep her". Women's Studies in Communication, 22(1), 66-84.
Seo, Dong-Jin. 2001. Mapping the vicissitudes of homosexual identities in South Korea. (Translated by Mark Mueller). Journal of Homosexuality, 40(3/4), 65-79.
Shepherd, John, & Wicke, Peter. (1997). Music and cultural theory. Cambridge, MA: Polity Press.
Shin, Soon-chul. (1998). Importing, Negotiating, and Articulating Identities: Popular Music and Teen Culture in Korea. Unpublished MA, University of Georgia.
Song, Jesook. (Forthcoming). "Family Breakdown" and invisible homeless women: Neo- liberal governance during the Asian Debt Crisis in South Korea 1997-2001. Positions: East Asia cultures critique.
Song, Jesook. (2003). Shifting technologies: Neoliberalization of the welfare state in South Korea, 1997-2001. Unpublished Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Vernallis, Carol. (1994). The aesthetics of music video: The relation of music and image. Unpublished Ph.D., University of California, San Diego.
Willoughby, Heather A. (2005). Image is everything: The marketing of femininity in South Korean popular music. Unpublished manuscript, Ehwa Women's University, Seoul.
Yi, Uyong. (1996). PD Yi Uyong-eui uri taejung eumak ilki (readings on pop music by producer Yi Uyong). Seoul: Changgongsa.
Young, Greg. (2004). ‘So slide over here’: The aesthetics of masculinity in late twentieth-century Australian pop music. Popular Music, 23(2), 173-193.
Yun, Hyŏng Suk. (2001). Ch’ŏngsonyŏn’gwa daeanmunhwaŭi mosaek (An investigation of youth and alternative culture). Sahwiyŏngu, 2, 53-98.