This is a 3-credit asynchronous online course about K-pop, film, and drama, which address key features of Korean society from the 1950s to the present day. This course provides a diachronic overview of K-pop songs from the 1950s to the present, examining the background of its emergence and growth both domestically and internationally. It examines some of the representative songs by types and times, their significance for the times they were produced. Some background stories of the social, political, and economic circumstances regarding the K-Pop will be introduced to boost students' understanding.  A few movies and episodes of some dramas and commercial video clips will be selected to show how the Korean socio-cultural characteristics of the times were portrayed.