Bylines
K-Pop Concerts (2024)
“ATEEZ, LE SSERAFIM, The Rose, and More Ignited the Desert at Coachella 2024”
This was a concert review for Coachella 2024 on behalf of K-Pop Concerts. Doan specifically covered the Korean acts that attended the festival for the second weekend, including ATEEZ, LE SSERAFIM, The Rose and Peggy Gou. It was her first U.S. music festival assignment.
K-Pop Concerts (2023)
“K-Pop Dreaming,” The Korean Diaspora, and The Future of K-Pop”
This interview was written for K-Pop Concerts. Doan interviewed Vivian Yoon, the host of LAist’s “K-Pop Dreaming” and attended their bonus live episode recording, “Origins of K-Pop”.
K-Pop Concerts (2023)
“BTS’ SUGA Flaunts His Superstardom at the Kia Forum”
This review was written for K-Pop Concerts. Doan attended the Agust D concerts and wrote an extensive review, garnering over a thousand likes on Twitter.
K-Pop Concerts (2022)
“KAMP LA Was A K-Pop Festival That Happened”
This review was written for K-Pop Concerts. It is also Doan’s first concert review post-graduation.
OC News (2022)
“April 18th broadcast”
Daily Titan (2021)
“Review: BTS L.A. concert was a life-changing experience”
Daily Titan (2021)
"Review: Willow’s performance breathes “Life” into the Observatory”
Katie was the main producer for this episode of OC News. OC News is a news station for Cal State Fullerton students and is produced weekly by graduating broadcast journalism students. This was the only broadcast that was aired live.
This review was an assignment in collaboration with the Daily Titan, CSUF’s student newspaper. It focuses on the Permission to Dance on Stage in LA concerts from Nov. 27/28 & Dec. 1/2.
This review was an assignment in collaboration with the Daily Titan, CSUF’s student newspaper. It focuses on Willow Smith’s concert stop in Santa Ana on Sept. 14th, 2021.
Original Works
nhi’s space (2023)
nhi’s space is a commentary channel created in April 2023 that specifically targets K-Pop fans and K-pop music critics. Doan has spent over half of her life watching and digesting K-Pop content and provided her expertise on topics about the culture including concert culture, photocard collecting culture, and deep dives on certain K-Pop groups like BTS and BLACKPINK. nhi’s space has garnered over 1.3 million impressions within the first four months of inception and is on its way to being monetized in under 6 months.
The most successful video, “why newjeans will change kpop forever”, a deep dive on ADOR’s new and first girl group, NewJeans, has amassed 100,000 views within the first month of release. The video analyzes what means NewJeans on its way to K-Pop stardom.
Permission to Reunite is a 15-minute documentary film centered on ARMY during the “Permission to Dance On Stage in LA” concert tour in Inglewood, California. It focuses on fan culture, including concert fashion, freebie culture, and fan projects being held during the tour. This film was produced, directed, and edited by Doan. This film was filmed safely during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
We MADE It is a fan-made documentary film reflecting honest international V.I.Ps’ thoughts and feelings about BIGBANG’s monumental 10th anniversary. This marked Doan’s budding interest in documentary films and was a catalyst for her to pursue a degree in broadcast journalism.
Made with Luv is a short film documenting Boba With Luv’s 6th event, a cup-sleeve event made for BTS fans, from BTS fans. Originally a final project for a class, the film explores the OC K-Pop cup-sleeve scene, filled with togetherness and celebration of one’s favorite K-Pop groups even during the worst of times. Doan directed, filmed, and edited the film. The movie was safely filmed during the global coronavirus pandemic.
FYBIG-BANG was a daily blog that provides news updates on the K-pop boy band, BIGBANG. The blog was active from 2014 to 2017. At its peak, the site (now archived via Wayback Machine) was followed by nearly 25,000 followers on Tumblr. Doan served as the founder of the site and managed a small rotating team of volunteers who updated the group’s activities across social media and official promotional schedules.
It was the first news blog for the group that had some level of journalistic integrity, only posting verified/confirmed news from Korean news outlets and official press statements from YG.