TY - BOOK AU - Julianne Andrea C. Aquino. AU - ED - ED - ED - ED - SN - 2 PY - 2018///.46 CY - PB - KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 N1 - Undergraduate Thesis: (B.S. Psychology) - Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, 2018; 5 N2 - ABSTRACT: The purpose of the study is to determine the points of view of college students regarding the impact of K-pop on them and to know how the impact of K-pop has motivated them o the different life aspects such as personal, financial, social, and academic. Snowball and purposive sampling techniques were utilized during pre-selection and in narrowing the participants from Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila down to 16, and an in-depth interview was conducted individually. Thematic Analysis was used in analyzing the data. Results showed that K-pop fans perceived themselves as someone who consumes K-pop content, supports his/her idols and appreciates the Korean Pop culture. The study concludes that it depends on the K-pop fan as an individual whether they choose to see and use K-pop as something that would benefit them on being motivated on certain aspects of life. This study is most beneficial to K-pop fans as it was made to provide information of the positive and negative impacts of K-pop to motivation and the life aspects the impact has an influence on college students so that fans would be more aware of how they should use K-pop as, whether they use or see it as a distraction or motivation ER -