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  • Sociolinguistics of the Korean Wave

    Hallyu and Soft Power

    by Nora Samosir, Lionel Wee ...
    Samosir and Wee examine how the immensely popular Korean Wave ("K-wave") also known as Hallyu is wielded as soft power through the use of communication for persuasion and attraction on the global stage. The Korean Wave refers to the global spread and popularity of South Korean culture, particularly its pop music ("K-pop"), serialised dramas ("K-dramas") and films ("K-films"). Given the South ... Read more

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  • Television Studies After TV

    Understanding Television in the Post-Broadcast Era

    Edited by Graeme Turner, Jinna Tay ...
    Television studies must now address a complex environment where change has been vigorous but uneven, and where local and national conditions vary significantly. Globalizing media industries, deregulatory policy regimes, the multiplication, convergence and trade in media formats, the emergence of new content production industries outside the US/UK umbrella, and the fragmentation of media audiences ... Read more

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  • Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    East Asian pop culture can be seen as an integrated cultural economy emerging from the rise of Japanese and Korean pop culture as an influential force in the distribution and reception networks of Chinese language pop culture embedded in the ethnic Chinese diaspora. Taking Singapore as a locus of pan-Asian Chineseness, Chua Beng Huat provides detailed analysis of the fragmented reception process ... Read more

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  • Millennial North Korea

    Forbidden Media and Living Creatively with Surveillance

    by Suk-Young Kim ...
    North Korea may be known as the world's most secluded society, but it too has witnessed the rapid rise of new media technologies in the new millennium, including the introduction of a 3G cell phone network in 2008. In 2009, there were only 70,000 cell phones in North Korea. That number has grown tremendously in just over a decade, with over 7 million registered as of 2022. This expansion took ... Read more

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  • K-pop - The International Rise of the Korean Music Industry

    Edited by JungBong Choi, Roald Maliangkay ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    K-pop, described by Time Magazine in 2012 as "South Korea’s greatest export", has rapidly achieved a large worldwide audience of devoted fans largely through distribution over the Internet. This book examines the phenomenon, and discusses the reasons for its success. It considers the national and transnational conditions that have played a role in K-pop’s ascendancy, and explores how they relate ... Read more

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  • Korean Masculinities and Transcultural Consumption

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    South Korean masculinities have enjoyed dramatically greater influence in recent years in many realms of pan-Asian popular culture, which travels freely in part because of its hybrid trans-nationalistic appeal. This book investigates transcultural consumption of three iconic figures — the middle-aged Japanese female fandom of actor Bae Yong-Joon, the Western online cult fandom of the thriller film ... Read more

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  • Diasporic Hallyu

    The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture

    by Kyong Yoon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    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 ... Read more

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  • Hegemonic Mimicry

    Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century

    by Kyung Hyun Kim ...
    In Hegemonic Mimicry, Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture—the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television, which is also known as hallyu—from a transnational and transcultural perspective. Using the concept of mimicry to think through hallyu's adaptation of American sensibilities and genres, he shows how the commercialization of Korean popular culture ... Read more

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  • The Korean Wave

    Korean Media Go Global

    Edited by Youna Kim ...
    Series series Internationalizing Media Studies
    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 ... Read more

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  • K-pop Live

    Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance

    by Suk-Young Kim ...
    1990s South Korea saw the transition from a military dictatorship to a civilian government, from a manufacturing economy to a postindustrial hub, and from a cloistered society to a more dynamic transnational juncture. These seismic shifts had a profound impact on the media industry and the rise of K-pop. In K-pop Live, Suk-Young Kim investigates the meteoric ascent of Korean popular music in ... Read more

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  • The Soft Power of the Korean Wave

    Parasite, BTS and Drama

    Edited by Youna Kim ...
    Series series Internationalizing Media Studies
    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 ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society

    Edited by Youna Kim ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society is an accessible and interdisciplinary resource that explores the formation and transformation of Korean culture and society.Each chapter provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking overview on key topics, including: compressed modernity, religion, educational migration, social class and inequality, popular culture, digitalisation, diasporic ... Read more

    $65.99 USD