When Canada went into lockdown, I stopped spending money on commuting, shopping in-person and eating out at restaurants. Like many others, I thought that COVID would quickly be under control. But that hasn’t been the case over a year later. What do you do then to keep yourself distracted from the reality of the pandemic while stuck at home? I found my answer in getting back into K-pop. Short for Korean popular music, K-pop is a genre of which the modern form emerged in South Korea in the 1990s. It is heavily influenced by other genres around the world such as pop, hiphop, rock, as well as South Korea’s own…