K-Pop'un Ergenlerde Dini Değerlere Etkileri
The Effects of K-Pop on Religious Values in Adolescents

Summary/Abstract: In recent years, the fascination with K-Pop music, its singers and groups, which have rapidly gained popularity in the world and in our country, increasingly attracted notice and is the subject of many studies. The daily lives and lifestyles of the people representing this musical style and groups become the focus of attention of the younger generations and are imitated by them. This fact necessitates to research K-Pop music. Studies in the world and in Turkey reveal that K-Pop has significant effects on young people. This trend, supported by industrial and cultural forms, attracts the attention of young people and affects their lifestyles. It is important to research how K-Pop singers and groups with their dynamic compositions, lively dances, innocent expressions, sexless looks, unique clothing, makeup, images, gestures and facial expressions affect their young fans, as well as what their religious, national and cultural consequences are on individual and social basis. The research was conducted with a phenomenological approach and the data was collected via semistructured interviews with 20 young people born between 2000 and 2010, who were selected by snowball sampling method. As a result of the analysis, the data were classified as two themes, namely, the interest of young people in KPop and the influence of K-Pop on young people. In this study, it was aimed to determine how and in which subjects K-Pop music style and group members are influential on the imagination of adolescents, and the meaning and importance of this situation in terms of religious-moral education and development. It was observed that the participants admire K-Pop singers and groups, like their lifestyle, and view every behaviour of these people positively.

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