Made in Korea

Hyunjoon Shin is a research professor in the Institute for East Asian Studies (IEAS) at Sungkonghoe University, Seoul.Seung-Ah Lee is a lecturer in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she teaches Korean Studies.

"A fine addition to the highly recommended series Global Popular Music (edited by Franco Fabbri and Goffredo Plastino), this volume on popular music in Korea (short for South Korea) is as comprehensive as such a book can be. ... [T]his book provides an expansive overview, written by an expert team of researchers. This book is certainly not just for scholars of Korean or Asian culture. I think that researchers in popular music, cultural studies, media, and cultural sociology who are interested in the details and intricacies of cultural globalization can find a wealth of information and insights hidden in these pages."—Motti Regev, Popular Music and Society"K-pop has increased its reach from Antofagasta in Chile to Zanzibar in Tanzania, and secured its foothold in global cities such as New York, London, and Paris. Nonetheless, analyses that move beyond clichés and display a solid command of the history and the specifics of the Korean popular music scene have not grown with commensurate rapidity, at least in English. Made in Korea addresses this relative lacuna. With contributors from various social sciences and humanities disciplines, the book is an assemblage of seventeen essays organized into four sections: history, genres, artitsts and issues. Taken together, the essays in this edited volume provide a very useful introduction for readers unfamiliar with Korean popular music, and also serve as a foundation for academic researchers seeking to strengthen their knowledge across several antecedents, genres, and artists of contemporary Korean popular music"—Hyung-Gu Lynn, Pacific Affairs

• PrefaceIntroduction: The Road to Popular Music: Regulation, Resistance, and NegotiationsHYUNJOON SHIN & SEUNG-AH LEEPart I. Histories1 The Stage Show and the Dance Floor: A History of "Live Music" in KoreaHYUNJOON SHIN2 Assembling Pop Records in Twentieth Century Korea: A Double is Twice as Good as a Single KEEWOONG LEE3 Broadcasting Media and Popular Music: Institution, Technologies, and PowerJUNG-YUP LEE4 Emerging Social Distribution: The Case of K-pop Circulation in the Global Pop Market SUN JUNGPart II. Genres 5 Trot and Ballad: Popular Genres of Korean PopYU-JEONG CHANG6 Korean Rock’s Journey from Group Sound to Indie RockPIL HO KIM7 Modern Folksong and People’s Song (Minjung Kayo)AEKYUNG PARK8 Korean Black Music and its Culture: Soul, Funk and Hip-HopJAEYOUNG YANGPart III. Artists9 Kim Hae-song, An Incomplete Dream of Korean JazzJUNHEE LEE10 Shin Joong Hyun’s Rock Sonority and Korean Pentatonicism in "Miin" DOHEE KWON11 Kim Min-ki and the Making of a LegendOKON HWANG12 Seo Taiji Syndrome: Rise of Korean Youth and Cultural Transformation through Global Pop Music Styles in the early 1990sEUN-YOUNG JUNGPart IV. Issues13 Korean Pop Music and Korean Identities: A Political-Cultural History of Korean Pop Music and Its Use of Traditional Korean Musical ElementsHYUNSEOK KWON14 Who’s Afraid of Korean Idols?: Five Keywords for Understanding Korean Idol Pop DONG-YEUN LEE15 Controlling or Supporting?: A History of Cultural Policies on Popular MusicSOOJIN KIM16 The Voice of Popular Korea: Styles, Genres and ContextsHAEKYUNG UMCoda17 Asia and Beyond: Circulation and Reception of Korean Popular Music outside of Korea SUNHEE KOO & SANG-YEON LOISE SUNGAfterword"We tried to catch up, now we should evolve": A Conversation with Shin Hae-chulHYUNJOON SHIN & CH’OE CHI-SŎN