Dear TVXQ, Shipping Showed Me a Way Out of the Church
This is From a K-pop Fan, With Love, a column by Giaae Kwon about her K-pop obsessions, past and present.
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Giaae Kwon is always hungry. Her writing has also appeared in The Rumpus, Buzzfeed Reader, and elsewhere, and she writes the Substack I Love You, Egg. She lives in Brooklyn.
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