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South Korean Popular Culture in the Global Context

Author : Sojin Lim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000625974

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South Korean Popular Culture in the Global Context by Sojin Lim Pdf

This book explores the recent landscape of Korean popular culture, including celebrity diplomacy, political activism, and inter-Korean relations in the era of ‘ontact’, with a special focus on K-pop and K-drama. Utilising the interdisciplinary approach, along with theoretical accounts, it redefines popular culture and its true power – beyond soft power – including discussions of how the pandemic and the use of online platforms have coincidently or effectively influenced recent phenomena surrounding Korean popular culture. It reveals both the possibilities and pitfalls of Hallyu diplomacy and the UN’s celebrity diplomacy more broadly, and highlights how, through the mobilisation of a large internet fanbase, the modern K-pop ‘standom’ can influence political discourse. The book also features an examination of the political significance of the K-drama through which it highlights the potential of popular media to impact inter-Korean relations and inform current international understanding and perception of the Korean conflict. Dealing with the wider scope of Korean popular culture this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of South Korea, international relations, public diplomacy, political activism, and cultural and media studies.

The Korean Wave

Author : Y. Kuwahara
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,5 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.

The Korean Popular Culture Reader

Author : Kyung Hyun Kim,Youngmin Choe
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
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

Transnational Hallyu

Author : Kyong Yoon Yong Jin,Kyong Yoon,Wonjung Min
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538146972

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Transnational Hallyu by Kyong Yoon Yong Jin,Kyong Yoon,Wonjung Min Pdf

While the influence of Western, Anglophone popular culture has continued in the global cultural market, the Korean cultural industry has substantially developed and globally exported its various cultural products, such as television programs, pop music, video games and films. The global circulation of Korean popular culture is known as the Korean wave, or Hallyu. Given its empirical scope and theoretical contributions, this book will be highly appealing to any scholar or student interested in media globalization and contemporary Asia popular culture. These chapters present the evolution of Hallyu as a transnational process and addresses two distinctive aspects of the recent Hallyu phenomenon - digital technology integration and global reach. This book will be the first monograph to comprehensively and comparatively examine the translational flows of Hallyu through extensive field studies conducted in the US, Canada, Chile, Spain and Germany.

The Korean Wave

Author : Korean Culture and Information Service South Korea
Publisher : 길잡이미디어
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788973751648

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The Korean Wave by Korean Culture and Information Service South Korea Pdf

korean wave,hallyu,Korean culture,Korean,south korea,Korean pop culture This book is the first in a series of upcoming books to introduce modern Korean culture overseas. The term “Korean Wave” (“Hallyu” in Korean) was coined by the Chinese press a little more than a decade ago to refer to the popularity of Korean pop culture in China. The boom started with the export of Korean television dramas (miniseries) to China in the late 1990s. Since then, South Korea has emerged as a new center for the production of transnational pop culture, exporting a range of cultural products to neighboring Asian countries. More recently, Korean pop culture has begun spreading from its comfort zone in Asia to more global audiences in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Birth of the Korean Wave Birth of the Wave The Beginning of the Wave in Japan The Wave Goes Global K-Pop Joins the Wave The neo-Korean Wave ‘Korean Invasion?’ The New Wave The Internet Connects the Wave Fast The Fun of Copying Distance No Longer a Barrier for K-Dramas What’s Korean Pop Culture Got? K-Pop: ‘Music of Fusion’ K-Dramas: ‘Healthy Power’ The Korean Wave in other Fields Korean Films Hallyu in Literature epilogue Will It Continue?

The Korean Wave

Author : Youna Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317938576

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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.

South Korean Popular Culture and North Korea

Author : Youna Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,6 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.

The Global Impact of South Korean Popular Culture

Author : Valentina Marinescu
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,9 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.

The Sociology of Hallyu Pop Culture

Author : Vincenzo Cicchelli,Sylvie Octobre
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030842963

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The Sociology of Hallyu Pop Culture by Vincenzo Cicchelli,Sylvie Octobre Pdf

Combining global, media, and cultural studies, this book analyzes the success of Hallyu, or the "Korean Wave” in the West, both at a macro and micro level, as an alternative pop culture globalization. This research investigates the capitalist ecosystem (formed by producers, institutions and the state), the soft power of Hallyu, and the reception among young people, using France as a case study, and placing it within the broader framework of the 'consumption of difference.' Seen by French fans as a challenge to Western pop culture, Hallyu constitutes a material of choice for understanding the cosmopolitan apprenticeships linked to the consumption of cultural goods, and the use of these resources to build youth’s biographical trajectories. The book will be relevant to researchers, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in sociology, cultural studies, global studies, consumption and youth studies.

New Korean Wave

Author : Dal Jin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 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.

Netflix's role in the South Korean over-the-top-video market

Author : Mara Kasten
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783346409423

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Netflix's role in the South Korean over-the-top-video market by Mara Kasten Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,0, University of Tubingen (Institut für Medienwissenschaft), course: Global Media Theory, language: English, abstract: This paper discusses, on the one hand, the South Korean (hereafter Korea) OTT (over the top) video market and the struggles of foreign SVOD (subscription video on demand) services in Korea. On the other hand, it looks at the distribution of Korean media content in a global context through digital platforms. The primary example chosen is Netflix. First, I will briefly review the selected literature, then list the rationale and thesis before explaining why a political economy approach is used, and what theoretical framework is applied in the analysis. In the main section, the objects of analysis are the highly competitive Korean OTT market, and the role of Netflix in the distribution of Korean content outside of Korea. Finally, in the conclusion, I will reiterate the rationale, and state how I have argued the thesis statement. Additionally, the main findings will be summarized, and the usefulness of the selected theoretical framework evaluated.

Introducing Korean Popular Culture

Author : Youna Kim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 41,8 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.

The Soft Power of the Korean Wave

Author : Youna Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,5 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.

East Asian Pop Culture

Author : Beng Huat Chua,Koichi Iwabuchi
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,9 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'.

Diasporic Hallyu

Author : Kyong Yoon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030949648

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Diasporic Hallyu by Kyong Yoon Pdf

This open access book examines the lived experiences of diasporic Korean youth in light of the transnational flows of South Korean popular culture, known as the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Korean Canadian youth and their engagement with the Korean Wave, the book proposes a critical understanding of the interactions between diasporic youth audiences and popular culture. By examining the Korean Wave as diasporic cultural practices rather than the diffusion of national cultural products, the book reveals the diversified ways in which cultural flows are negotiated by audiences who take up relatively ambivalent reception positions between two or more national and cultural contexts. This book expands the scope of transnational audience studies and youth cultural studies by focusing attention on the diasporic media practices of young people.