Brilliant approach to effective, context-based language learning! Korean for K-Pop Fans is a well-organized, appealing, and (most importantly) effective introduction to the Korean language. It has all the essential components of language-teaching design, as applied to Hangul: brief history and structure of the written language, phonemes, parts of speech, phrasing, verb tenses and conjugation, substantive and descriptive structures, and linguistic adaptations (hybrid forms and borrowings). The brilliant part is the context-based design, an approach well known in language teaching for student motivation and engagement, and for enabling them to retain what they learn. The thread of K-Pop and the Korean music world is creative and compelling. Additionally, the electronic version has available sound files with corresponding scripts. The visual layout is really well done. And I like the way they've brought together components that you often need to pull together from different textbooks. It is a practical, entertaining, and productive way to begin reading and speaking in Korean! It is helping me make real progress in learning the language.