The Korean Wave

Abstract

Introduction: Korean Media in a Digital Cosmopolitan World Youna Kim Part I: Power and Politics of the 1. Soft Power and the Korean Wave Joseph Nye and Youna Kim 2. The Korean Wave as Method: Inter-Asian Referencing Koichi Iwabuchi 3. Reconfiguring Media and Empire Oliver Boyd-Barrett Part II: Popular Media and Digital Mobile 4. Korean Wave Pop in the Internet Age: Why Popular? Why Now? Youna Kim 5. For the Eyes of North Koreans? Politics of Money and Class in Boys Over Flowers Suk-Young Kim 6. K-pop Female Idols in the West: Racial Imaginations and Erotic Fantasies Eun-Young Jung 7. Negotiating Identity and Power in Transnational Cultural Consumption: Korean American Youths and the Korean Wave Jung-Sun Park 8. Digitization and Online Cultures of the Korean Wave: East Asian Virtual Community in Europe Sang-Yeon Sung 9. Hybridization of Korean Popular Culture: Films and Online Gaming Dal Yong Jin 10. K-pop Dance Trackers and Cover Dancers: Cosmopolitanization and Local Spatialization Liew Kai Khiun Part III: Perspectives Inside/Outside 11. Cultural Policy and the Korean Wave: From National to Transnational Consumerism Hye-Kyung Lee 12. Re-Worlding Culture?: YouTube as a K-pop Interlocutor Kent A. Ono and Jungmin Kwon 13. The Korean Wave as a Cultural Epistemic Anandam Kavoori 14. The Korean Wave and Global Culture Yudhishthir Raj Isar