South Korean popular culture and North Korea
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South Korean popular culture and North Korea
（RoutledgeCurzon media, culture and social change in Asia / series editor, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, 60）
Routledge, 2019
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Over recent decades South Korea's vibrant and distinctive populist culture has spread extensively throughout the world. This book explores how this "Korean wave" has also made an impact in North Korea. The book reveals that although South Korean media have to be consumed underground and unofficially in North Korea, they are widely watched and listened to. The book examines the ways in which this is leading to popular yearning in North Korea for migration, defecting to the South or for people to just become more like South Koreans. Overall, the book demonstrates that the soft power of the Korean wave is having an undermining impact on the hard, constraining cultural climate of North Korea.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Hallyu and North Korea: Soft Power of Popular Culture
Part I Popular Culture as Soft Power
1 Soft Power and the Korean Wave
2 The Korean Wave as a Powerful Agent: Hidden Stories from a North Korean Defector
3 Popular Culture in Transitional Societies: An Eastern European Perspective
Part II Circulation of Meaning
4 Black Markets, Red States: Media Piracy in China and the Korean Wave in North Korea
5 The Korean Wave: A Pull Factor for North Korean Migration
6 Hallyu in the South, Hunger in the North: Alternative Imaginings of What Life Could Be
7 South Korean Media Reception and Youth Culture in North Korea
Part III Contesting Voices
8 Other as Brother or Lover: North Koreans in South Korean Visual Media
9 Discursive Construction of Hallyu-in-North Korea in South Korean News Media
10 Webtoon and Intimacy: Reception of North Korean Defectors' Survival Narratives
11 Revealing Voices?: North Korean Males and the South Korean Mediascape
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