Jeff BENJAMIN is an award-winning music journalist, editor, curator and host based in New York City. For more than a decade, has extensively and professionally written and honed his expertise on pop music—particularly in international music and his specialty as an expert in Asian-pop music—for outlets like the New York Times, Rolling Stone, GQ, Forbes, NPR, Variety, MTV, South China Morning Post and more. He has been featured in and commissioned as a source and subject for outlets like the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, USA Today, Bloomberg, TIME, BBC, Allure, VICE, Money, Yahoo!, CINRA.NET, DKPopIndia, and many more.
In 2013, Jeff launched Billboard's K-pop column and has continued to work as the outlet's K-Pop Columnist. By 2019, he joined as international contributor for 'We K-Pop,' a K-pop variety show filmed in South Korea by KBS World that aired weekly to more than 100 million viewers in 120 countries around the world. In 2020, TIDAL brought him on as a curator and editor to focus on K-pop, J-pop, global-pop music and viral music for the high-fidelity, global music streaming platform available in more than 60 countries.
Jeff's work has led him to speak, moderate and host at local and international events including SXSW, Comic-Con, and KCON in the United States, MU:CON, the Culture Communication Forum, the Korea Foundation’s Public Diplomacy Week and MBN Y Forums in South Korea, MIDEM in France, and more.
Jeff Benjamin is an award-winning music journalist, editor, curator and host based in New York City. For more than a decade, has extensively and professionally written and honed his expertise on pop music—particularly in international music and his specialty as an expert in Asian-pop music—for outlets like the New York Times, Rolling Stone, GQ, Forbes, NPR, Variety, MTV, South China Morning Post and more. He has been featured in and commissioned as a source and subject for outlets like the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, USA Today, Bloomberg, TIME, BBC, Allure, VICE, Money, Yahoo!, CINRA.NET, DKPopIndia, and many more.