Media Culture And Korea

Author : Kyong Yoon Yong Jin,Nojin Kwak
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498562041

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Communication, Digital Media, and Popular Culture in Korea by Kyong Yoon Yong Jin,Nojin Kwak Pdf

In recent decades, Korean communication and media have substantially grown to become some of the most significant segments of Korean society. Since the early 1990s, Korea has experienced several distinctive changes in its politics, economy, and technology, which are directly related to the development of local media and culture. Korea has greatly developed several cutting-edge technologies, such as smartphones, video games, and mobile instant messengers to become the most networked society throughout the world. As the Korean Wave exemplifies, the once small and peripheral Korea has also created several unique local popular cultures, including television programs, movies, and popular music, known as K-pop, and these products have penetrated many parts of the world. As Korean media and popular culture have rapidly grown, the number of media scholars and topics covering these areas in academic discourses has increased. These scholars’ interests have expanded from traditional media, such as Korean journalism and cinema, to several new cutting-edge areas, like digital technologies, health communication, and LGBT-related issues. In celebrating the Korean American Communication Association’s fortieth anniversary in 2018, this book documents and historicizes the growth of growing scholarship in the realm of Korean media and communication.

Author : Kyu Ho Youm,Nojin Kwak
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498583336

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Korean Communication, Media, and Culture by Kyu Ho Youm,Nojin Kwak Pdf

Korean Communication, Media, and Culture is a bibliography of English-language publications for non-Korean-speaking academics, researchers, and professionals. In addition to the actual annotations of all the major books, book chapters, journal articles, and theses/dissertations, each chapter includes contextual introductory commentary on its topic. The authors not only historicize their findings but they also prescribe the direction that English-language research on Korean communication should take.

Author : Chin-bong Ch'oe
Publisher : 커뮤니케이션북스
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132347613

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Media, Culture and Korea by Chin-bong Ch'oe Pdf

Author : Hye-Kyung Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317567523

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Cultural Policy in South Korea by Hye-Kyung Lee Pdf

This is the first English-language book on cultural policy in Korea, which critically historicises and analyses the contentious and dynamic development of the policy. It highlights that the evolution of cultural policy has been bound up with the complicated political, economic and social trajectory of Korea to a surprising degree. Investigating the content and context of the policy from the period of Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945) until the military authoritarian regime (1961–1988), the book discusses how culture, often co-opted by the government, was mobilised to disseminate state agendas and define national identity. It then moves on to investigate the distinct characteristics of Korea’s contemporary cultural policy since the 1990s, particularly its energetic pursuit of democracy, a market economy of culture and outward cultural globalisation (the Korean Wave). This book helps readers to understand the continuous presence of the ‘strong state’ in Korean cultural policy and its implications for the cultural life of Koreans. It argues that this exceptionally active cultural policy sets an important condition not only for artistic creation, cultural consumption and cultural business in the country, but also for the nation's ambitious endeavour to turn the success of its pop culture into a global phenomenon.

Author : Brian Yecies,Ae-Gyung Shim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786606365

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South Korea's Webtooniverse and the Digital Comic Revolution by Brian Yecies,Ae-Gyung Shim Pdf

This book investigates the meteoric rise of mobile webtoons – also known as webcomics – and the dynamic relationships between serialised content, artists, agencies, platforms and applications, as well as the global readership associated with them. It offers an engaging discussion of webtoons themselves, and what makes this new media form so compelling and attractive to millions upon millions of readers. Why have webtoons taken off, and how do users interact with them? Each of the case studies we explore raises interesting questions for both general readers and scholars of new media about how webtoons have become a modern form of popular culture. The book also addresses larger questions about East Asia’s contributions to global popular culture and Asian society in general, as well as South Korea’s rapid social and cultural transformation since the 1990s. This is a significant – and understudied – aspect of the new screen ecologies and their role in a new wave of media globalisation as we approach the end of the second decade of the 21st century.

Author : Beng Huat Chua,Koichi Iwabuchi
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9622098924

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East Asian Pop Culture by Beng Huat Chua,Koichi Iwabuchi Pdf

The contributors analyse the subject of Asian pop culture arranged under three headings: 'Television Industry in East Asia', 'Transnational-Crosscultural Receptions of TV Dramas' and 'Nationalistic reactions'.

Author : Sangjoon Lee,Abé Markus Nornes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472052523

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Hallyu 2.0 by Sangjoon Lee,Abé Markus Nornes Pdf

The first scholarly volume to investigate the impact of social media and other communication technologies on the global dissemination of the Korean Wave

Author : Youna Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317938583

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The Korean Wave by Youna Kim Pdf

Since the late 1990s South Korea has emerged as a new center for the production of transnational popular culture - the first instance of a major global circulation of Korean popular culture in history. Why popular (or not)? Why now? What does it mean socially, culturally and politically in a global context? This edited collection considers the Korean Wave in a global digital age and addresses the social, cultural and political implications in their complexity and paradox within the contexts of global inequalities and uneven power structures. The emerging consequences at multiple levels - both macro structures and micro processes that influence media production, distribution, representation and consumption - deserve to be analyzed and explored fully in an increasingly global media environment. This book argues for the Korean Wave's double capacity in the creation of new and complex spaces of identity that are both enabling and disabling cultural diversity in a digital cosmopolitan world. The Korean Wave combines theoretical perspectives with grounded case studies in an up-to-date and accessible volume ideal for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of Media and Communications, Cultural Studies, Korean Studies and Asian Studies.

Author : Dal Jin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252098147

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New Korean Wave by Dal Jin Pdf

The 2012 smash "Gangnam Style" by the Seoul-based rapper Psy capped the triumph of Hallyu , the Korean Wave of music, film, and other cultural forms that have become a worldwide sensation. Dal Yong Jin analyzes the social and technological trends that transformed South Korean entertainment from a mostly regional interest aimed at families into a global powerhouse geared toward tech-crazy youth. Blending analysis with insights from fans and industry insiders, Jin shows how Hallyu exploited a media landscape and dramatically changed with the 2008 emergence of smartphones and social media, designating this new Korean Wave as Hallyu 2.0. Hands-on government support, meanwhile, focused on creative industries as a significant part of the economy and turned intellectual property rights into a significant revenue source. Jin also delves into less-studied forms like animation and online games, the significance of social meaning in the development of local Korean popular culture, and the political economy of Korean popular culture and digital technologies in a global context.

Author : Youna Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351104104

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South Korean Popular Culture and North Korea by Youna Kim Pdf

Over recent decades South Korea’s vibrant and distinctive populist culture has spread extensively throughout the world. This book explores how this "Korean wave" has also made an impact in North Korea. The book reveals that although South Korean media have to be consumed underground and unofficially in North Korea, they are widely watched and listened to. The book examines the ways in which this is leading to popular yearning in North Korea for migration, defecting to the South or for people to just become more like South Koreans. Overall, the book demonstrates that the soft power of the Korean wave is having an undermining impact on the hard, constraining cultural climate of North Korea.

Author : Chie-woon Kim,Jae-won Lee
Publisher : 나남
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : 20c
ISBN : UOM:39015038468842

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Elite Media Amidst Mass Culture by Chie-woon Kim,Jae-won Lee Pdf

Author : Y. Kuwahara
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137350282

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The Korean Wave by Y. Kuwahara Pdf

The rise in popularity of South Korean entertainment and culture began and is promoted as an official policy of the Korean government to revive the country's economy. This study examines cultural production and consumption, glocalization, the West versus. Asia, global race consciousness, and changing views of masculinity and femininity.

Author : Kyung Hyun Kim,Youngmin Choe
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822377566

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The Korean Popular Culture Reader by Kyung Hyun Kim,Youngmin Choe Pdf

Over the past decade, Korean popular culture has become a global phenomenon. The "Korean Wave" of music, film, television, sports, and cuisine generates significant revenues and cultural pride in South Korea. The Korean Popular Culture Reader provides a timely and essential foundation for the study of "K-pop," relating the contemporary cultural landscape to its historical roots. The essays in this collection reveal the intimate connections of Korean popular culture, or hallyu, to the peninsula's colonial and postcolonial histories, to the nationalist projects of the military dictatorship, and to the neoliberalism of twenty-first-century South Korea. Combining translations of seminal essays by Korean scholars on topics ranging from sports to colonial-era serial fiction with new work by scholars based in fields including literary studies, film and media studies, ethnomusicology, and art history, this collection expertly navigates the social and political dynamics that have shaped Korean cultural production over the past century. Contributors. Jung-hwan Cheon, Michelle Cho, Youngmin Choe, Steven Chung, Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, Stephen Epstein, Olga Fedorenko, Kelly Y. Jeong, Rachael Miyung Joo, Inkyu Kang, Kyu Hyun Kim, Kyung Hyun Kim, Pil Ho Kim, Boduerae Kwon, Regina Yung Lee, Sohl Lee, Jessica Likens, Roald Maliangkay, Youngju Ryu, Hyunjoon Shin, Min-Jung Son, James Turnbull, Travis Workman

Author : Charles R. Kim
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824855970

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Youth for Nation by Charles R. Kim Pdf

This in-depth exploration of culture, media, and protest follows South Korea’s transition from the Korean War to the start of the political struggles and socioeconomic transformations of the Park Chung Hee era. Although the post–Korean War years are commonly remembered as a time of crisis and disarray, Charles Kim contends that they also created a formative and productive juncture in which South Koreans reworked pre-1945 constructions of national identity to meet the political and cultural needs of postcolonial nation-building. He explores how state ideologues and mainstream intellectuals expanded their efforts by elevating the nation’s youth as the core protagonist of a newly independent Korea. By designating students and young men and women as the hope and exemplars of the new nation-state, the discursive stage was set for the remarkable outburst of the April Revolution in 1960. Kim’s interpretation of this seminal event underscores student participants’ recasting of anticolonial resistance memories into South Korea’s postcolonial politics. This pivotal innovation enabled protestors to circumvent the state’s official anticommunism and, in doing so, brought about the formation of a culture of protest that lay at the heart of the country’s democracy movement from the 1960s to the 1980s. The positioning of women as subordinates in the nation-building enterprise is also shown to be a direct translation of postwar and Cold War exigencies into the sphere of culture; this cultural conservatism went on to shape the terrain of gender relations in subsequent decades. A meticulously researched cultural history, Youth for Nation illuminates the historical significance of the postwar period through a rigorous analysis of magazines, films, textbooks, archival documents, and personal testimonies. In addition to scholars and students of twentieth-century Korea, the book will be welcomed by those interested in Cold War cultures, social movements, and democratization in East Asia.

Author : Valentina Marinescu
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739193389

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The Global Impact of South Korean Popular Culture by Valentina Marinescu Pdf

This volume fills a gap in the existing literature and proposes an interdisciplinary and multicultural comparative approach to the impact of Hallyu worldwide. The contributors analyze the spread of South Korean popular products from different perspectives (popular culture, sociology, anthropology, linguistics) and from different geographical locations (Asia, Europe, North America, and South America). The contributors come from a variety of countries (UK, Japan, Argentina, Poland, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Indonesia, USA, Romania). The volume is divided into three sections and twelve chapters that each bring a new perspective on the main topic. This emphasizes the impact of Hallyu and draws real and imaginary “maps” of the export of South Korean cultural products. Starting from the theoretical backgrounds offered by the existing literature, each chapter presents the impact of Hallyu in a particular country. This applied character does not exclude transnational comparisons or critical interrogations about the future development of the phenomenon. All authors are speaking about their own, native cultures. This inside perspective adds an important value to the understanding of the impact of a different culture on the “national” culture of each respective country. The contributions to this volume illustrate the “globalization” of the cultural products of Hallyu and show the various faces of Hallyu around the world.