Hye-Kyung Lee

Cultural Policy in South Korea (eBook, ePUB)

Making a New Patron State

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The control and promotion of culture have been bound up with politics in Korea to a surprising degree. This book traces the development of cultural policy in South Korea from Japanese colonial rule to the present day, highlighting this strong connection to wider government policy. Amongst many other subjects, the book discusses how the arts have largely relied on government financing; how the cultural industries engaged with the democratisation movement in the 1970s and 1980s; how more recent governments have promoted autonomy for the cultural sector; and how Korean arts have boomed in the twenty-first century, and have become an international phenomenon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317567523
• Artikelnr.: 56833946

Autorenporträt

Hye-Kyung Lee is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries at King's College London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Romanisation of Korean

Chapter 1. Introduction: Culture and the State

Chapter 2. The Origins of Cultural Policy

Chapter 3. Modernising Country and Nationalising Culture

Chapter 4. Democracy and Cultural Policy Transformation

Chapter 5. Doing Cultural Policy in the Neoliberal Era

Chapter 6. The Korean Wave Inside Out

Chapter 7. Conclusion: Past, Present and Future of the New Patron State

Rezensionen

This book is a captivating and greatly needed addition to cultural policy studies. As the first English-language book on Korean cultural policy, it aptly historicizes the evolution of Korean cultural policy since the early 20th century and clearly articulates diverse perspectives embedded in the national cultural policy. By rendering the tensions and negotiations among various theoretical and practical frameworks, in particular between state-developmentalists and neoliberal globalists, surrounding major cultural policy issues, it clarifies the reasons why media scholars, cultural producers, and policy makers refocus on cultural policy in the ever-growing Korean cultural industries and the Korean Wave contexts. Without a doubt, this is timely and an indispensable chaperon for researchers and students who are interested in cultural policy studies, globalization studies, media studies, and Korean studies. - Dal Yong Jin, Simon Fraser University

For those of us less familiar with Korean history, Hye-Kyung Lee gives us a richly contextualised and accessible account of cultural policies since the era of Japanese colonial rule, explaining their evolution both in terms of South Korea's own political dynamics since the 1940s and the nationally diffracted effects of globalization. At the same time, Lee has extensive familiarity with Anglophone discussions of cultural policy, and the book represents an incisive and original intervention in those discussions. In particular, it recasts or 'provincializes' prevailing conceptions of state-culture-economy relations, and shows an admirable awareness of the broad range of fronts on which cultural policies have operated. - Jeremy Ahearne, University of Warwick

In this timely book Hye-Kyung Lee examines the history of state patronage in South Korea during the twentieth century, culminating in the current era sometimes described as the Korean Wave. She considers trajectories of cultur