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Cultural Production of Hallyu in the Digital Platform Era

Industry Perspectives

By Dal Yong Jin
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Media Studies, New Media, Cultural Studies

Exploring the platformization of the Korean Wave and its connection to cultural industries

Critically Capitalist

The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea

By Bohyeong Kim
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Asian Studies, Korea, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

An ethnography of South Korea’s lay investors and aspiring millionaires that demonstrates how South Korea’s capitalism thrives on its critiques

The Postdevelopmental State

Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea

By Jamie Doucette
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, History, Labor History, Economics, Economic Theory
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Examining the struggle to align high-growth economic models with the egalitarian promises of democracy

The South Korean Film Industry

Edited by Sangjoon Lee, Dal Yong Jin, and Junhyung Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Art, Art History, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

A multifaceted exploration of the South Korean film industry

Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea

Edited by Jesook Song & Michelle Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

An interdisciplinary look at gender and sexuality in contemporary South Korea

Seeds of Mobilization

The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy

By Joan E. Cho
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Asian Studies, Korea
Series: Emerging Democracies

Examines the roles of industrialization and tertiary education in Korea’s nonlinear path to democracy

Realisms in East Asian Performance

Edited by Jessica Nakamura & Katherine Saltzman-Li
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, China, Japan, Korea

Essays by leading scholars expand understandings of theatrical realism through East Asian performances across premodern, modern, and contemporary periods

Minor Salvage

The Korean War and Korean American Life Writings

By Stephen Hong Sohn
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History

Explores the forgotten archives and life writings of Korean War refugees

Mediating the South Korean Other

Representations and Discourses of Difference in the Post/Neocolonial Nation-State

Edited by David C. Oh
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Offers a new framework for understanding ethnic and racial difference in Korea

Pride, Not Prejudice

National Identity as a Pacifying Force in East Asia

By Eunbin Chung
Subjects: Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, Asian Studies, China, Japan, Korea, International Relations

Nationalism as a path to international peace

Korean Families Yesterday and Today

By Hyunjoon Park & Hyeyoung Woo
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Sociology
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

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

Rediscovering Korean Cinema

By Sangjoon Lee
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

The first comprehensive volume examining the state, stakes, and future direction of Korean cinema studies.
 

Revisiting Minjung

New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s South Korea

By Sunyoung Park
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Cultural Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Foremost scholars of 1980s South Korea bring new perspectives on this pivotal period, expanding the horizons of Korean cultural studies by reassessing old conventions and adding new narratives

Entrepreneurial Seoulite

Culture and Subjectivity in Hongdae, Seoul

By Mihye Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

A lucid narration of post-financial crisis urbanism in Seoul and the vivid experiences of living through the city in transition

The Burden of the Past

Problems of Historical Perception in Japan-Korea Relations

By Kan Kimura
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Korea, Political Science, International Relations, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History

A rigorously historical investigation into the ongoing issues in Japan-Korea relations and how and why both governments have acted—and not acted—to address them

Cultures of Yusin

South Korea in the 1970s

By Youngju Ryu
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Cultural Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

A broad range of scholars explores the many avenues of cultural production during the Yusin period, casting new light on how it challenged and conformed to the ambitions of the state power

Geopolitical Economy

The South Korean FTA Strategy

By Jonathan Krieckhaus
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Asian Studies, Korea

How geopolitics influence free trade agreements in South Korea

Transforming Gender and Emotion

The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea

By Sookja Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Korea, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

Illuminates how one folktale serves as a living record of the evolving cultures and relationships of China and Korea

Transgression in Korea

Beyond Resistance and Control

By Juhn Young Ahn
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

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

Embodied Reckonings

“Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress

By Elizabeth Son
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, Korea, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History

An illuminating study of how former Korean “comfort women” and their supporters have redressed history through protests, tribunals, theater, and memorial-building projects

Smartland Korea

Mobile Communication, Culture, and Society

By Dal Yong Jin
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Media Studies, New Media, Cultural Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

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

Hallyu 2.0

The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media

By Sangjoon Lee & Abé Markus Nornes
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Cultural Studies, Media Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

The first scholarly volume to investigate the impact of social media and other communication technologies on the global dissemination of the Korean Wave

Illusive Utopia

Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea

By Suk-Young Kim
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, Korea, Political Science, Cultural Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A rare glimpse into North Korean propaganda—in parades, posters, murals, theater, and films

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