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Korean Culture in the Global Age: K-Pop, K-Drama, K-Film, and K-Literature book cover

1st Edition

Korean Culture in the Global Age K-Pop, K-Drama, K-Film, and K-Literature

Edited By Joanne Miyang Cho, Lee M. Roberts Copyright 2025
356 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

356 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Since the late 1990s, South Korean cultural products such as pop music, TV drama, and film have shaped the country’s image around the world. This book explores these three internationally best-known media of the Korean Wave global phenomenon, along with a less commonly featured aspect, K-literature. Iconic images of South Korea today include stylish music groups like BTS and Blackpink,... Read more

Introduction: K-Culture in the Global Age and Organization
Joanne Miyang Cho and Lee M. Roberts

Part 1: K-Pop in the Global Age 

1. Shaping K-Pop in the Asian Market: From Seo Taiji and Boys to BoA
Hye Eun Choi

2. The Transcultural Fairy Tale in K-Pop: BTS's Mastery of Storytelling and ARMY's Magical Assistance
Tessa C. Lee

3. "K-Pop Trash, But Not Koreaboo": Discursive Construction of K-Pop Fans on YouTube
Hakyoon Lee and Christin Tran

4. Meaning-making of the Korean Wave for Asian American College Students
Victoria Kim

Part 2: K-Drama in the Global Age

5. Empathy and Community in Misaeng and My Mister
Charles R. Kim

6. Varieties of Virtuous Vengeance: Revenge and Correction in K-Drama
Jeffrey Hause

7. The Diverse Experiences of Second-Generation Korean Americans: A Sociological Reading of the Netflix Drama Beef
Keumjae Park

Part 3: K-Film in the Global Age

8. Korean Glocalization of the Zombie Apocalypse: The Yeon Sang-Ho Trilogy and Netflix Dramas
Seung-hoon Jeong

9. Non-Human Judgment: Lee Soo-yeon's Surveillant Cinema
Steve Choe

10. Seoul in India: The Bollywoodization of Youn Je-kyun’s Ode to My Father
Bruce Williams

Part 4: Korean Literature in the Global Age

11. Trauma in Korean Literature
Bruce Fulton

12. Themes of National Division and Reunification: A Common Thread in the Lives and Literature of Hwang Sok-yong and Günter Grass
Lee M. Roberts

13. Global Subjectivities and Languages in Contemporary South Korea: Transnational Migrant Labor Literature
Jina E. Kim

Biography

Joanne Miyang Cho is a professor of history at William Paterson University. She has edited/coedited Transnationalism and Migration in Global Korea, Germany and China, Germany and Japan, Germany and Korea, Germany and East Asia, Gendered Encounters, Musical Entanglements, and East Asian-German Cinema.

Lee M. Roberts is a professor of German at Purdue University Fort Wayne. His recent publications include the coedited volume Transnationalism and Migration in Global Korea (2024) and chapters in The History of the Shanghai Jews: New Pathways in Research (2022) and German East Asian Encounters and Entanglements (2021).

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