The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and South Korea

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction                                                                                                             

Mapping Gender, Sexuality and South Korea on the Move - Youna Kim

Part I Formation of Gender and Sexuality                                                           

1. Religious and Philosophical Traditions in the Formation of Gender and Sexuality - Kevin N. Cawley

2. Colonial Modernity, Gender and Sexuality through Korean Press Satire - Anna Diniejko-Wąs

3. Christianity and Female Self-Fashioning across Colonial and Transpacific Worlds - Jina E. Kim

4. Korean “Comfort Women”: The Intersection of Colonial Power, Gender and Class - Pyong Gap Min

5. Hetero-Authoritarianism as Everyday Disaster: Anatomical Conformity and its “Queer” Challenges in Postwar South Korea - Todd A. Henry

6. Industrialization as a Process of Modernizing Gender Hierarchy - Seungsook Moon

7. Confucian Legacies and the (Re)Making of Gender and Sexuality - Andrew Eungi Kim

Part II Transforming South Korea                                                                  

8. The Unfinished Business of Democratization: Tracing South Korea’s Gender War - Gi-Wook Shin and Irene Kyoung

9. Populism and Gendered Youth Politics: Mobilizing Young Men - Hannes B. Mosler

10. Education Fever, Intensive Mothering and Social Capital - Michael J. Seth

11. Private Tutoring and the Reproduction of Gender and Socioeconomic Inequalities - Álvaro Choi and Hoon Choi

12. Employment, Productive and Reproductive Labor - Thomas R. Klassen and Sukyong Yang

13. Gender, Housework and Fertility - Soo-Yeon Yoon and In Choi

14. The LGBTQ Movement and Human Rights - Gabriel Jonsson

Part III Cultural South Korea                                                                    

15. Re-reading Han Kang’s The Vegetarian - Chaeyeon Park

16. Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Literature: From Silence to Voice - Kelly Jeong

17. The Changing Representation of the Heroine in the 1990s Literature: Marriage as a Way Out? - Miriam Löwensteinová

18. Translation as Queer Non-Normative Embodiment - Jae Won Edward Chung

19. Queer Art against Disambiguation - Jongwoo Jeremy Kim

20. Contemporary Art: Gender, Sexuality and Dislocated Bodies - SooJin Lee

21. Body Politics, Lookism and Mukbang: The Satiety-Fame-Diet - Antonetta L. Bruno

22. Gendering Food Culture: Celebrity Chefs as Cultural Intermediaries - Jaehyeon Jeong

Part IV Popular Media Culture                                                               

23. Why Study Popular Media Culture? - Youna Kim

24. Motherhood as Horror in Television Drama and Film - Bonnie Tilland

25. K-pop Girl Groups: From Gender Critique to Feminist Agency - Jimmyn Parc

26. Women, Space and “New National” Cinema: From Remasculinization to Reimagination - Gemma Ballard

27. Vulnerable Bodies and Ecofeminist Interventions in Cinema - Dong Hoon Kim

28 Molar-Molecular Queerness in Popular Media Culture: Autoethnography and Ethnography - Aljoša Pužar

29. Queerness as Soft Power: Cruel Optimism from K-pop to Love in the Big City             - Zoran Lee Pecic

30. Shifting Narratives from K-dramas to Netflix K-Originals: Love, Authenticity and Transnational Connectivity - Hyejung Ju

Part V Digital South Korea                                                                          

31. From Web Dramas to OTT Originals: The Rise of “Boys Love” - Jennifer M. Kang

32. Webtoon and the Reconfiguration of Masculinity: Crying Men and Precarious Lives - Jahyon Park

33. Gaming and Esports Culture as a Battlefield of Gender Politics - Tae-Jin Yoon and Hyomin Lee

34. Online Politics and Gendered Transformation: Historical Contours of Contestation - Jiyeon Kang

35. Queer Mediated Mobility and Affective Counterpublics in Digital Space - Woori Han

36. In the AI Turn: Techno-Capitalism, Gender and K-pop - Sarah Keith

37. AI and the Algorithmic Reproduction of Affective Femininity - Giuseppina De Nicola

38. Facilitator or Disruptor?: AI and Gendered Youth Culture - Seok Kang

Part VI Mobile South Korea                                                                                       

39. Korean Women’s Transnational Gender Journeys: Between Seoul, São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Los Angeles - Kyeyoung Park

40. Digital Diaspora and Political Engagement: Care-Based Actions of Women - Hojeong Lee

41. Youth, Gender and Race in Diasporic Beauty Vlogging - Sherry S. Yu and Alice Nahyeon Kim

42. Performing Masculinity through Diasporic Cooking - David C. Oh

43. Diasporic Queerscapes and Intimate Heterotopias in Korean American Films: Mirrors, Spas and Koreatown - Ji-Yeon O. Jo

44. K-pop Demon Hunters: Feminist Readings of Mental Health and Hybrid Identity - Jin-Ae Kang and Do Kyun David Kim

Index              

Biography

Youna Kim is Professor of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, France, and previously taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She is the author and editor of eleven books, including Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of Hope (Routledge, 2005), The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global (Routledge, 2013), The Soft Power of the Korean Wave: Parasite, BTS and Drama (Routledge, 2021), and Introducing Korean Popular Culture (Routledge, 2023).