The Korean Popular Culture Reader - 9780822354888

The Korean Popular Culture ReaderAuthor(s): Kyung Hyun Kim, Youngmin Choe\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822354888, 978-0822354888\nSynopsis\nOver the past decade, Korean popular culture has become a global phenomenon. The \""Korean Wave\"" of music, film, television, sports, and cuisine generates significant revenues and cultural pride in South Korea. The Korean Popular Culture Reader provides a timely and essential foundation for the study of \""K-pop,\"" relating the contemporary cultural landscape to its historical roots. The essays in this collection reveal the intimate connections of Korean popular culture, or hallyu, to the peninsula's colonial and postcolonial histories, to the nationalist projects of the military dictatorship, and to the neoliberalism of twenty-first-century South Korea. Combining translations of seminal essays by Korean scholars on topics ranging from sports to colonial-era serialn