Abstract
Chapter 12 deals with the relationships between cultural industries and the state in East Asia. This chapter analyzes the impact of the cultural industries on state policy by looking at the emergence of the Japanese and Korean cultural industries and at the consequential governmental policies initiated. It first reviews the relationship between “culture” and “industry” in order to underline the challenges for policy makers. It then places the issue of commodifying and exporting pop culture in the wider context of Japan and Korea’s developmental legacy and discuss the massive emergence of the Japanese and Korean cultural industries over the last two decades. It later analyzes the way that the policies toward the cultural industries have shifted, the recent governmental initiatives to support the production and export of commodified culture, and provide a few examples of the domestic discourse they initiate. Lastly, it outlines the wider theoretical significance of this study to the process of policy making, and offer some policy recommendations based on the structure and organization of the cultural industries.
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