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Hip-hop at 50: South Korea's booming music market

Haekyung Um, a music professor at the University of Liverpool, takes us on a tour of rap history in the region with a special playlist featuring Suga, Yoon Mirae, Verbal Jint and more. 

Haekyung Um shares seven songs that show the evolution of rap music in the region

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UNSPECIFIED: In this screengrab released on March 14, Suga of BTS performs onstage during the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards broadcast on March 14, 2021. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
In this screengrab released on March 14, Suga of BTS performs onstage during the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards broadcast on March 14, 2021. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

Up next in Commotion's celebration of hip-hop's 50th anniversary is hip-hop's growing influence in South Korea.

Haekyung Um, a music professor at the University of Liverpool, takes us on a tour of rap history in the region with a special playlist featuring Suga, Yoon Mirae, Verbal Jint and more. 

LISTEN | Today's episode on YouTube:

You can listen to the full discussion from today's show on CBC Listen or on our podcast, Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, available wherever you get your podcasts.

For more stories about the 50th anniversary of hip-hop — including Tom Power's conversations with some of the artists who witnessed and shaped the genre — check out Hip-Hop at 50 here.

Interview with Haekyung Um produced by Jane van Koeverden.

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