Contradictheory: Love in K-pop songs and your brain


The big boss at the newspaper asked us to write about love this week, in line with the theme of Valentine. I know when I’m beat, so I Googled “What is love” to find that plenty of people seem to have answers, including researchers at Stanford University, and folks at a dating website.

But perhaps the most interesting answer came from K-Pop all-girl group Twice, if only because it was all questions. Their song What is Love? posted the following philosophical quandary: (translated from Korean) “How could it be as sweet as candy? How is it like flying in the sky? I wanna know know know know.... What is love?”

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