South Korean Popular Culture and North Korea (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kim, Youna

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Over recent decades South Korea's vibrant and distinctive populist culture has spread extensively throughout the world. This book explores how this has also made an impact in North Korea. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351104104
• Artikelnr.: 55020105

Autorenporträt

Youna Kim is Professor of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, France, joined from the London School of Economics and Political Science where she had taught since 2004, after completing her PhD at the University of London, Goldsmiths College. Her books are Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of Hope (Routledge, 2005); Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia (Routledge, 2008); Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women: Diasporic Daughters (Routledge, 2011); Women and the Media in Asia: The Precarious Self (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global (Routledge, 2013); Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society (Routledge, 2016); Childcare Workers, Global Migration and Digital Media (Routledge, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Hallyu and North Korea: Soft Power of Popular Culture
Part I Popular Culture as Soft Power
1 Soft Power and the Korean Wave
2 The Korean Wave as a Powerful Agent: Hidden Stories from a North Korean
Defector
3 Popular Culture in Transitional Societies: An Eastern European
Perspective
Part II Circulation of Meaning
4 Black Markets, Red States: Media Piracy in China and the Korean Wave in
North Korea
5 The Korean Wave: A Pull Factor for North Korean Migration
6 Hallyu in the South, Hunger in the North: Alternative Imaginings of What
Life Could Be
7 South Korean Media Reception and Youth Culture in North Korea
Part III Contesting Voices
8 Other as Brother or Lover: North Koreans in South Korean Visual Media
9 Discursive Construction of Hallyu-in-North Korea in South Korean News
Media
10 Webtoon and Intimacy: Reception of North Korean Defectors' Survival
Narratives
11 Revealing Voices?: North Korean Males and the South Korean Mediascape