K-pop English Accent Videos

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These videos were analyzed in the research paper "I Want to Be Born with That Pronunciation": Metalinguistic Comments About K-Pop Idols' Inner Circle Accents by Jihye Kim and Luoxiangyu Zhang.

The researchers collected and analyzed 602 comments from these videos to understand how fans perceive and evaluate the English accents of K-pop idols, particularly those from "inner circle" countries like the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.

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