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Smartland Korea

Author : Dal Yong Jin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472053377

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Smartland Korea by Dal Yong Jin Pdf

An engaging and comprehensive look at the Korean smartphone industry and culture

Korean Communication, Media, and Culture

Author : Kyu Ho Youm,Nojin Kwak
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,8 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.

Korea’s Platform Empire

Author : Seongcheol Kim,Dal Yong Jin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040041871

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Korea’s Platform Empire by Seongcheol Kim,Dal Yong Jin Pdf

Korea’s Platform Empire explores the evolution of digital platforms in South Korea’s media sphere, and their global political, economic, cultural, and technological influence. With a focus on Korea in the context of the global platform revolution, the book takes a methodical look at the broader social implications and the impact on cultural production. The authors explore various facets of the media and cultural industries—looking beyond social media to news broadcasting and the music industry—and look at the policy and regulations behind this shifting technological advancement. This book will appeal to students and scholars working on media industries, digital media, platform studies, information and technology studies, Korean and East Asian media studies, and the creative and cultural industries.

Communication, Digital Media, and Popular Culture in Korea

Author : Kyong Yoon Yong Jin,Nojin Kwak
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 42,5 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.

Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea

Author : Jesook Song,Michelle Cho
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472904372

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Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea by Jesook Song,Michelle Cho Pdf

Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea focuses on the relationship between media representation and gender politics in South Korea. Its chapters feature notable voices of South Korea’s burgeoning sphere of gender critique enabled by social media, doing what no other academic volume has yet accomplished in the sphere of Anglophone studies on this topic. Seeking to interrogate the role of popular media in establishing and shaping gendered common sense, this volume fosters cross-disciplinary conversations linked by the central thesis that gender discourse and representation are central to the politics, aesthetics, and economics of contemporary South Korea. In the post-authoritarian period (the late 1980s to the #MeToo present), media representation and popular discourse changed the gender conventions that are found at the core of civic, political, and cultural debates. Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea maps the ways in which popular media and public discourse make the social dynamics of gender visible and open them up for debate and dismantling. In presenting innovative new research on the ways in which popular ideas about gender gain concrete form and political substance through mass mediation, the book’s contributors investigate the discursive production of gender in contemporary South Korea through trends, tropes, and thematics, as popular media become the domain in which new gendered subjectivities and relations transpire. The essays in this volume present cases and media objects that span multiple media and platforms, introducing new ways of thinking about gender as a platform and a conceptual infrastructure in the post-authoritarian era.

Transgression in Korea

Author : Juhn Young Ahn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472053773

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Transgression in Korea by Juhn Young Ahn Pdf

Challenges our understanding of transgression-- its causes, goals, and motives-- across a comprehensive reading of South Korean media

Digital Mediascapes of Transnational Korean Youth Culture

Author : Kyong Yoon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780429890208

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Digital Mediascapes of Transnational Korean Youth Culture by Kyong Yoon Pdf

Drawing on vivid ethnographic field studies of youth on the transnational move, across Seoul, Toronto, and Vancouver, this book examines transnational flows of Korean youth and their digital media practices. This book explores how digital media are integrated into various forms of transnational life and imagination, focusing on young Koreans and their digital media practices. By combining theoretical discussion and in depth empirical analysis, the book provides engaging narratives of transnational media fans, sojourners, and migrants. Each chapter illustrates a form of mediascape, in which transnational Korean youth culture and digital media are uniquely articulated. This perceptive research offers new insights into the transnationalization of youth cultural practices, from K-pop fandom to smartphone-driven storytelling. A transnational and ethnographic focus makes this book the first of its kind, with an interdisciplinary approach that goes beyond the scope of existing digital media studies, youth culture studies, and Asian studies. It will be essential reading for scholars and students in media studies, migration studies, popular culture studies, and Asian studies.

The Oxford Handbook of South Korean Politics

Author : JeongHun Han,Professor of Korean Politics Jeonghun Han,Ramon Pacheco Pardo,Associate Professor of Political Science Youngho Cho,Youngho Cho
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192894045

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The Oxford Handbook of South Korean Politics by JeongHun Han,Professor of Korean Politics Jeonghun Han,Ramon Pacheco Pardo,Associate Professor of Political Science Youngho Cho,Youngho Cho Pdf

South Korea is best-known for its economic development, democratic transition and consolidation, vibrant civil society, and emergence as a cultural powerhouse. The Oxford Handbook of South Korean Politics presents and analyses contemporary South Korean politics, bringing together domestic political, economic, social cultural, and demographic developments and putting them in the context of trends in fellow developed countries. The Handbook is divided into seven sections: introduction; core concepts; institutions, parties, elections, and voters; civil society; culture and media; public policy and policy-making; and the international arena. The overarching premise of the Handbook is that we have to move away from traditional understandings of South Korean politics that considered them to be static, focusing instead on how and why contemporary South Korea is a vibrant and dynamic democracy in which multiple groups and ideas are represented.

The Soft Power of the Korean Wave

Author : Youna Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000437522

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The Soft Power of the Korean Wave by Youna Kim Pdf

At this fascinating historical moment, this timely collection explores the new meaning of the Korean Wave and the process of media production, representation, distribution and consumption in a global context as a distinctive and complex form of soft power. Focusing on the most recent phenomenon of Korean popular culture, this book considers the Korean Wave in the global digital age and addresses the social, cultural and political implications in their complexity within the contexts of global inequalities and uneven power structures. The collection brings together internationally renowned scholars and regional specialists to examine this historically significant, visibly growing, yet under-explored current phenomenon in the global digital age. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from media and communications, cultural studies, sociology, history and anthropology, and including a series of case studies from Asia, the USA, Europe and the Middle East, it provides an empirically rich and theoretically stimulating tour of this area of study, going beyond the standard Euro-American view of the evolving and complex dynamics of the media today. This collection is essential reading for students and scholars interested in Korean popular culture and in film, media, fandom and cultural industries more widely.

Introducing Korean Popular Culture

Author : Youna Kim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000892260

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Introducing Korean Popular Culture by Youna Kim Pdf

This new textbook is a timely and interdisciplinary resource for students looking for an introduction to Korean popular culture, exploring the multifaceted meaning of Korean popular culture at micro and macro levels and the process of cultural production, representation, circulation and consumption in a global context. Drawing on perspectives from the humanities and social sciences, including media and communications, film studies, musicology, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, history and literature, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Korean popular culture and its historical underpinnings, changing roles and dynamic meanings in the present moment of the digital social media age. The book’s sections include: K-pop Music Popular Cinema Television Web Drama, Webtoon and Animation Digital Games and Esports Lifestyle Media, Fashion and Food Nation Branding An accessible, comprehensive and thought-provoking work, providing historical and contemporary contexts, key issues and debates, this textbook will appeal to students of and providers of courses on popular culture, media studies and Korean culture and society more broadly.

Rediscovering Korean Cinema

Author : Sangjoon Lee
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472054299

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Rediscovering Korean Cinema by Sangjoon Lee Pdf

South Korean cinema is a striking example of non-Western contemporary cinematic success. Thanks to the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world’s major film markets. In 2001, the South Korean film industry became the first in recent history to reclaim its domestic market from Hollywood and continues to maintain around a 50 percent market share today. High-quality South Korean films are increasingly entering global film markets and connecting with international audiences in commercial cinemas and art theatres, and at major international film festivals. Despite this growing recognition of the films themselves, Korean cinema’s rich heritage has not heretofore received significant scholarly attention in English-language publications. This groundbreaking collection of thirty-five essays by a wide range of academic specialists situates current scholarship on Korean cinema within the ongoing theoretical debates in contemporary global film studies. Chapters explore key films of Korean cinema, from Sweet Dream, Madame Freedom, The Housemaid, and The March of Fools to Oldboy, The Host, and Train to Busan, as well as major directors such as Shin Sang-ok, Kim Ki-young, Im Kwon-taek, Bong Joon-ho, Hong Sang-soo, Park Chan-wook, and Lee Chang-dong. While the chapters provide in-depth analyses of particular films, together they cohere into a detailed and multidimensional presentation of Korean cinema’s cumulative history and broader significance. With its historical and critical scope, abundance of new research, and detailed discussion of important individual films, Rediscovering Korean Cinema is at once an accessible classroom text and a deeply informative compendium for scholars of Korean and East Asian studies, cinema and media studies, and communications. It will also be an essential resource for film industry professionals and anyone interested in international cinema.

Mediating the South Korean Other

Author : David C. Oh
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472055456

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Mediating the South Korean Other by David C. Oh Pdf

Multiculturalism in Korea formed in the context of its neoliberal, global aspirations, its postcolonial legacy with Japan, and its subordinated neocolonial relationship with the United States. The Korean ethnoscape and mediascape produce a complex understanding of difference that cannot be easily reduced to racism or ethnocentrism. Indeed the Korean word, injongchabyeol, often translated as racism, refers to discrimination based on any kind of “human category.” Explaining Korea’s relationship to difference and its practices of othering, including in media culture, requires new language and nuance in English-language scholarship. This collection brings together leading and emerging scholars of multiculturalism in Korean media culture to examine mediated constructions of the “other,” taking into account the nation’s postcolonial and neocolonial relationships and its mediated construction of self. “Anthrocategorism,” a more nuanced translation of injongchabyeol, is proffered as a new framework for understanding difference in ways that are locally meaningful in a society and media system in which racial or even ethnic differences are not the most salient. The collection points to the construction of racial others that elevates, tolerates, and incorporates difference; the construction of valued and devalued ethnic others; and the ambivalent construction of co-ethnic others as sympathetic victims or marginalized threats.

Korean Families Yesterday and Today

Author : Hyunjoon Park,Hyeyoung Woo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Families
ISBN : 9780472054381

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Korean Families Yesterday and Today by Hyunjoon Park,Hyeyoung Woo Pdf

Twelve chapters, portraying diverse aspects of the contemporary Korean families and showing how they have come to have their current shapes

Understanding the Korean Wave

Author : Dal Yong Jin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000932195

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Understanding the Korean Wave by Dal Yong Jin Pdf

A comprehensive and critical introduction to understanding the Korean Wave (Hallyu) as a transnational media phenomenon. This book provides an accessible introduction to the Korean Wave—the rapid growth of local cultural industries and the global popularity of Korean popular culture over the past 30 years—providing historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural context to its initial rise and enduring popularity. Jin explores the transnational cultural flows of Hallyu across a variety of products and digital technologies—from television dramas, film, and K-pop to online games, and webtoons—and explains the process of cross-media convergence and the socio-political contexts behind the Hallyu phenomenon. He also explores how overseas fans and audiences advance K-pop fandom as social agents in different geo-cultural contexts. The book concludes by discussing if Hallyu can become a sustainable global popular culture beyond a fan-based regional cultural phenomenon. Each chapter features detailed contemporary case studies and discussion questions to enhance student engagement. This is essential reading for students of Media and Communication, Cultural Studies, Korean Studies, and Asian Studies, particularly those taking classes on popular culture and media, media and globalization, Korean popular culture, and East Asian culture.

Transnational Korean Cinema

Author : Dal Yong Jin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781978807884

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Transnational Korean Cinema by Dal Yong Jin Pdf

In Transnational Korean Cinema author Dal Yong Jin explores the interactions of local and global politics, economics, and culture to contextualize the development of Korean cinema and its current place in an era of neoliberal globalization and convergent digital technologies. The book emphasizes the economic and industrial aspects of the story, looking at questions on the interaction of politics and economics, including censorship and public funding, and provides a better view of the big picture by laying bare the relationship between film industries, the global market, and government. Jin also sheds light on the operations and globalization strategies of Korean film industries alongside changing cultural policies in tandem with Hollywood’s continuing influences in order to comprehend the power relations within cultural politics, nationally and globally. This is the first book to offer a full overview of the nascent development of Korean cinema.