Perspectives on Contemporary Korea – serie
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22 produkter
South Korean Film Industry
Av Sangjoon Lee, Dal Yong Jin m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
519 kr
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As shown by the success of Squid Game and Parasite, South Korea’s film industry is producing films and original series for streaming services, film studios, and television stations worldwide. South Korea is now arguably considered one of the few countries outside the United States to have …
Hallyu 2.0
The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media
Av Sangjoon Lee, Abé Markus Nornes
Häftad, 2015
443 kr
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Collectively known as Hallyu, Korean music, television programs, films, online games, and comics enjoy global popularity, thanks to new communication technologies. In recent years, Korean popular culture has also become the subject of academic inquiry. Whereas the Hallyu’s impact on Korea’s …
Cultures of Yusin
South Korea in the 1970s
Av Youngju Ryu
Häftad, 2018
457 kr
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Cultures of Yusin examines the turbulent and yet deeply formative years of Park Chung Hee’s rule in South Korea, focusing on the so-called Yusin era (1972–79). Beginning with the constitutional change that granted dictatorial powers to the president and ending with his assassination, Yusin was a …
Revisiting Minjung
New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s South Korea
Häftad, 2019
457 kr
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An epoch-marking alliance of laborers, students, dissident intellectuals, and ordinary citizens was at the heart of South Korea’s transformation from a dictatorship into a vibrant democracy during the 1980s. Collectively known as the minjung (“the people”), these agents of Korean democratization …
Entrepreneurial Seoulite
Culture and Subjectivity in Hongdae, Seoul
Av Mihye Cho
Häftad, 2019
270 kr
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Entrepreneurial Seoulite might be read as a memoir on Hongdae based on the author’s observations as a member of South Korea’s Generation X. During the 1990’s, Hongdae became widely known as a cool place associated with discourses on alternative music, independent labels, and club culture. Today, …
Rediscovering Korean Cinema
Av Sangjoon Lee
Häftad, 2019
581 kr
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South Korean cinema is a striking example of non-Western contemporary cinematic success. Thanks to the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world’s major film markets. In 2001, the South Korean film industry became the first in recent …
Korean Families Yesterday and Today
Av Hyunjoon Park, Hyeyoung Woo
Häftad, 2020
443 kr
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Korean families have changed significantly during the last few decades in their composition, structure, attitudes, and function. Delayed and forgone marriage, fertility decline, and rising divorce rates are just a few examples of changes that Korean families have experienced at a rapid pace, more …
Mediating the South Korean Other
Representations and Discourses of Difference in the Post/Neocolonial Nation-State
Av David C. Oh
Häftad, 2022
457 kr
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Multiculturalism in Korea formed in the context of its neoliberal, global aspirations, its postcolonial legacy with Japan, and its subordinated neocolonial relationship with the United States. The Korean ethnoscape and mediascape produce a complex understanding of difference that cannot be easily …
Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea
Häftad, 2024
457 kr
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Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea focuses on the relationship between media representation and gender politics in South Korea. Its chapters feature notable voices of South Korea’s burgeoning sphere of gender critique enabled by social media, doing what no other academic volume has …
Postdevelopmental State
Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea
Häftad, 2024
395 kr
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Winner of the 2025 Association of Korean Studies in Europe Book PrizeOver the last 25 years, South Korea has witnessed growing inequality due to the proliferation of non-standard employment, ballooning household debt, deepening export-dependency, and the growth of super-conglomerates such as …
Critically Capitalist
The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea
Av Bohyeong Kim
Häftad, 2025
332 kr
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Critically Capitalist presents an ethnography of South Korea’s asset seekers, including amateur stock investors, real estate enthusiasts, and money coaches, to demonstrate how financialized asset capitalism is sustained. As they hunt for profit margins, rent, and dividends, they simultaneously …
Smartland Korea
Mobile Communication, Culture, and Society
Av Dal Yong Jin
Inbunden, 2017
1126 kr
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The dramatic advancement of cellphone technology has fundamentally changed our daily lives. Smartphones and their applications have created new capital for information and communication technology corporations and changed the way people communicate. Because of an interesting awareness of the …
Transgression in Korea
Beyond Resistance and Control
Inbunden, 2018
1195 kr
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Since the turn of the millennium South Korea has continued to grapple with transgressions that shook the nation to its core. Following the serial killings of Korea’s raincoat killer, the events that led to the dissolution of the United Progressive Party, the criminal negligence of the owner and …
Revisiting Minjung
New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s South Korea
Inbunden, 2019
1301 kr
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An epoch-marking alliance of laborers, students, dissident intellectuals, and ordinary citizens was at the heart of South Korea’s transformation from a dictatorship into a vibrant democracy during the 1980s. Collectively known as the minjung (“the people”), these agents of Korean democratization …
Entrepreneurial Seoulite
Culture and Subjectivity in Hongdae, Seoul
Av Mihye Cho
Inbunden, 2019
1027 kr
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Entrepreneurial Seoulite might be read as a memoir on Hongdae based on the author’s observations as a member of South Korea’s Generation X. During the 1990’s, Hongdae became widely known as a cool place associated with discourses on alternative music, independent labels, and club culture. Today, …
Rediscovering Korean Cinema
Av Sangjoon Lee
Inbunden, 2019
1443 kr
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South Korean cinema is a striking example of non-Western contemporary cinematic success. Thanks to the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world’s major film markets. In 2001, the South Korean film industry became the first in recent …
Korean Families Yesterday and Today
Av Hyunjoon Park, Hyeyoung Woo
Inbunden, 2020
1263 kr
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Korean families have changed significantly during the last few decades in their composition, structure, attitudes, and function. Delayed and forgone marriage, fertility decline, and rising divorce rates are just a few examples of changes that Korean families have experienced at a rapid pace, more …
Mediating the South Korean Other
Representations and Discourses of Difference in the Post/Neocolonial Nation-State
Av David C. Oh
Inbunden, 2022
1159 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Multiculturalism in Korea formed in the context of its neoliberal, global aspirations, its postcolonial legacy with Japan, and its subordinated neocolonial relationship with the United States. The Korean ethnoscape and mediascape produce a complex understanding of difference that cannot be easily …
Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea
Inbunden, 2024
1230 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea focuses on the relationship between media representation and gender politics in South Korea. Its chapters feature notable voices of South Korea’s burgeoning sphere of gender critique enabled by social media, doing what no other academic volume has …
South Korean Film Industry
Av Sangjoon Lee, Dal Yong Jin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1230 kr
Lägg i varukorg
As shown by the success of Squid Game and Parasite, South Korea’s film industry is producing films and original series for streaming services, film studios, and television stations worldwide. South Korea is now arguably considered one of the few countries outside the United States to have …
Postdevelopmental State
Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea
Inbunden, 2024
1301 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Winner of the 2025 Association of Korean Studies in Europe Book PrizeOver the last 25 years, South Korea has witnessed growing inequality due to the proliferation of non-standard employment, ballooning household debt, deepening export-dependency, and the growth of super-conglomerates such as …
Critically Capitalist
The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea
Av Bohyeong Kim
Inbunden, 2025
1017 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Critically Capitalist presents an ethnography of South Korea’s asset seekers, including amateur stock investors, real estate enthusiasts, and money coaches, to demonstrate how financialized asset capitalism is sustained. As they hunt for profit margins, rent, and dividends, they simultaneously …
