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South Korean Popular Culture and North Korea (Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia)

South Korean Popular Culture and North Korea (Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia)

by YounaKim (Editor)

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    Hardcover 2019

    $139.94
Synopsis

Over recent decades South Korea's vibrant and distinctive populist culture has spread extensively throughout the world. This book explores how this Korean wave has also made an impact in North Korea. The book reveals that although South Korean media has to be consumed underground and unofficially in North Korea, it is widely watched and listened to. The book examines the ways in which this is leading to popular yearning in North Korea for migration, defecting to the South or for people to just become more like South Koreans. 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.

$139.94

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 204
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 29 Jan 2019
ISBN 10: 1138477672
ISBN 13: 9781138477674

Author Bio
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 Ph.D. 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).