Eun-Jeong Han is associate professor in the Department of Communication at Salisbury University.Min Wha Han is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at West Texas A&M University. JongHwa Lee is assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Mass Media at Angelo State University.

Throughout history, Koreans have been voluntarily migrating or forced to migrate to other countries. Korean Diaspora Across the World: Homeland in History, Memory, Imagination, Media, and Reality explores the wide-ranging experiences of Korean migration, adoption, and diaspora in various situations. Unlike other anthologies on this topic, the unique collection of articles in this book comprehensively illustrates how Koreans have struggled, survived, and triumphed in various corners of the globe and how they have constructed and identified imagined communities through social media and other media consumption.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter One: Looking at Koreans’ Global Migration Path through the Lenses of Family HistoryEun-Jeong Han Part I: Homeland in Personal Experiences and Memories: Identity Negotiation and Cultural Adaption among Korean Diaspora Chapter Two: Korean Diaspora in Sakhalin – “Your Homeland Does Not Need You but We Do”Irina Balitskaya and Jae Hyung Park Chapter Three: Negotiating the “Homeland”: An Analysis of Narrative Identities among First-Generation Koreans in JapanMin Wha Han Chapter Four: Families Beyond Borders: Discourse of Homeland, Diaspora, and (Up)Rooted-Identity JongHwa Lee Chapter Five: Homeland in the Kitchen: The Intersection of Food and Diasporic IdentityJaehyeon Jeong Chapter Six: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Discursive Burden of Establishing Individual and Family IdentitySara Docan-Morgan Chapter Seven: The 1.5th and 2nd Generations in Chile: Am I a Korean?Wonjung Min Part II: Homeland in Public Discourses: Media Use and News Coverage of Korean DiasporaChapter Eight: Identity Formation of the Korean Diaspora, Koryo-Saram, in Contemporary Kazakhstan: An Analysis Based upon Articles of Koryo-Ilbo Jinhye Lee Chapter Nine: “Trash to the Trash Cans, Koreans to the Korean Peninsula!”: Diehard Racism and the Rise of Hate Speech against Korean Residents in JapanSoo-Hye Han Chapter Ten: “I Am Korean American”: Constructing Diasporic Identifications on a Korean American Facebook Group and Pinterest BoardDavid C. Oh Chapter Eleven: Online Community for Information, Support, and Transnational Activities: A Case of MissyUSA among Female Korean Im/migrants in the United StatesEunKyung Lee Chapter Twelve: Context Matters: The Effect of Homeland Media Use on the Generation of Social Capital among Korean Communities in the U.S.Sohyun Choi and Claire Shinhea LeeChapter Thirteen: Coreano Vlogs: Diasporic Media and the Politics of Asian Representation in Latin AmericaBenjamin M. Han

Eun-Jeong Han is associate professor in the Department of Communication at Salisbury University.Min Wha Han is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at West Texas A&M University. JongHwa Lee is assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Mass Media at Angelo State University.

Throughout history, Koreans have been voluntarily migrating or forced to migrate to other countries. Korean Diaspora Across the World: Homeland in History, Memory, Imagination, Media, and Reality explores the wide-ranging experiences of Korean migration, adoption, and diaspora in various situations. Unlike other anthologies on this topic, the unique collection of articles in this book comprehensively illustrates how Koreans have struggled, survived, and triumphed in various corners of the globe and how they have constructed and identified imagined communities through social media and other media consumption.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter One: Looking at Koreans’ Global Migration Path through the Lenses of Family HistoryEun-Jeong Han Part I: Homeland in Personal Experiences and Memories: Identity Negotiation and Cultural Adaption among Korean Diaspora Chapter Two: Korean Diaspora in Sakhalin – “Your Homeland Does Not Need You but We Do”Irina Balitskaya and Jae Hyung Park Chapter Three: Negotiating the “Homeland”: An Analysis of Narrative Identities among First-Generation Koreans in JapanMin Wha Han Chapter Four: Families Beyond Borders: Discourse of Homeland, Diaspora, and (Up)Rooted-Identity JongHwa Lee Chapter Five: Homeland in the Kitchen: The Intersection of Food and Diasporic IdentityJaehyeon Jeong Chapter Six: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Discursive Burden of Establishing Individual and Family IdentitySara Docan-Morgan Chapter Seven: The 1.5th and 2nd Generations in Chile: Am I a Korean?Wonjung Min Part II: Homeland in Public Discourses: Media Use and News Coverage of Korean DiasporaChapter Eight: Identity Formation of the Korean Diaspora, Koryo-Saram, in Contemporary Kazakhstan: An Analysis Based upon Articles of Koryo-Ilbo Jinhye Lee Chapter Nine: “Trash to the Trash Cans, Koreans to the Korean Peninsula!”: Diehard Racism and the Rise of Hate Speech against Korean Residents in JapanSoo-Hye Han Chapter Ten: “I Am Korean American”: Constructing Diasporic Identifications on a Korean American Facebook Group and Pinterest BoardDavid C. Oh Chapter Eleven: Online Community for Information, Support, and Transnational Activities: A Case of MissyUSA among Female Korean Im/migrants in the United StatesEunKyung Lee Chapter Twelve: Context Matters: The Effect of Homeland Media Use on the Generation of Social Capital among Korean Communities in the U.S.Sohyun Choi and Claire Shinhea LeeChapter Thirteen: Coreano Vlogs: Diasporic Media and the Politics of Asian Representation in Latin AmericaBenjamin M. Han

Eun-Jeong Han is associate professor in the Department of Communication at Salisbury University.Min Wha Han is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at West Texas A&M University. JongHwa Lee is assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Mass Media at Angelo State University.

Throughout history, Koreans have been voluntarily migrating or forced to migrate to other countries. Korean Diaspora Across the World: Homeland in History, Memory, Imagination, Media, and Reality explores the wide-ranging experiences of Korean migration, adoption, and diaspora in various situations. Unlike other anthologies on this topic, the unique collection of articles in this book comprehensively illustrates how Koreans have struggled, survived, and triumphed in various corners of the globe and how they have constructed and identified imagined communities through social media and other media consumption.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter One: Looking at Koreans’ Global Migration Path through the Lenses of Family HistoryEun-Jeong Han Part I: Homeland in Personal Experiences and Memories: Identity Negotiation and Cultural Adaption among Korean Diaspora Chapter Two: Korean Diaspora in Sakhalin – “Your Homeland Does Not Need You but We Do”Irina Balitskaya and Jae Hyung Park Chapter Three: Negotiating the “Homeland”: An Analysis of Narrative Identities among First-Generation Koreans in JapanMin Wha Han Chapter Four: Families Beyond Borders: Discourse of Homeland, Diaspora, and (Up)Rooted-Identity JongHwa Lee Chapter Five: Homeland in the Kitchen: The Intersection of Food and Diasporic IdentityJaehyeon Jeong Chapter Six: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Discursive Burden of Establishing Individual and Family IdentitySara Docan-Morgan Chapter Seven: The 1.5th and 2nd Generations in Chile: Am I a Korean?Wonjung Min Part II: Homeland in Public Discourses: Media Use and News Coverage of Korean DiasporaChapter Eight: Identity Formation of the Korean Diaspora, Koryo-Saram, in Contemporary Kazakhstan: An Analysis Based upon Articles of Koryo-Ilbo Jinhye Lee Chapter Nine: “Trash to the Trash Cans, Koreans to the Korean Peninsula!”: Diehard Racism and the Rise of Hate Speech against Korean Residents in JapanSoo-Hye Han Chapter Ten: “I Am Korean American”: Constructing Diasporic Identifications on a Korean American Facebook Group and Pinterest BoardDavid C. Oh Chapter Eleven: Online Community for Information, Support, and Transnational Activities: A Case of MissyUSA among Female Korean Im/migrants in the United StatesEunKyung Lee Chapter Twelve: Context Matters: The Effect of Homeland Media Use on the Generation of Social Capital among Korean Communities in the U.S.Sohyun Choi and Claire Shinhea LeeChapter Thirteen: Coreano Vlogs: Diasporic Media and the Politics of Asian Representation in Latin AmericaBenjamin M. Han