Idols, Ideals, and Identity: K-Pop and Indonesian Girls’ Self-Perception
Abstract
In recent years, K-Pop has emerged as a global cultural phenomenon that exerts considerable influence on contemporary beauty standards. Central to this influence is the meticulously constructed image of K-Pop idols, who are persistently represented as slim, fair-skinned, and visually “perfect.” Disseminated extensively through digital platforms, social media, and visual entertainment industries, these representations operate as a hegemonic bodily ideal. Employing a qualitative methodology informed by a postcolonial analytical lens, this study critically examines how such idealized bodies are interpreted and internalized by Indonesian adolescent girls, and how these processes shape their self-image and identity formation within broader Southeast Asian cultural dynamics. This study argues that the idealized female body in K-Pop culture functions as a hegemonic global aesthetic that is internalized by Indonesian adolescent girls, influencing their body perceptions and identity formation while marginalizing local beauty values through processes of cultural representation and mimicry.
Date
2025-12-24Author
['Mayani, Fatikha', 'Wulan, Nur', 'Puryanti, Lina']
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https://jurnal.ugm.ac.id/ikat/article/view/109923http://digilib.fisipol.ugm.ac.id/repo/handle/15717717/55056
