Even while many people were upset about Bad Bunny’s Superbowl performance in Spanish, songs with Korean words have been topping American music charts. Moreover, American families have been singing along with these songs in movie theatres. In that context, I found this video on how K-Pop is changing both Korean and English particularly fascinating.
Linguist Erica Brozovsky covers the history of the interaction of Korean and English. K-Pop evolved in part from the clubs in South Korean that were set up to entertain US Servicemen stationed there. Those clubs influenced musical taste. Korean songs started incorporating English into their lyrics. Now, songs in English are starting to incorporate Korean into their lyrics (think Golden or APT).
I have given a quick summary of the video here. I recommend seeing the whole video for other interesting topics, such as Korean language influence on English.
