My paper, “From Role to Responsibility: Intergenerational
Mutuality in the Glocal Infrastructure of BTS Fandom,” has been accepted for
oral presentation at the 5th BTS Global Interdisciplinary Conference in Jeonju,
South Korea this July 2026.
This one is personal.
It comes from our lived experiences as ARMY mother and
daughter walking the streets of Seoul during Festa 2025, carrying questions,
holding hands, learning how love moves across generations and borders.
It asks what it means to grow together inside a fandom that
is not just community, but infrastructure. Where participation and
responsibility are the core of fandom culture.
Bangtan taught us that we do not stand alone. We arrive
because someone held the door open. And so this paper is my way of saying: we see each other, we
carry each other, we become better for each other.
From role to responsibility. From fan to citizen. From here
to there, and back again.
We are ARMY, always. 💜
