Doobo Shim

• Sungshin Women's University

In the last decade, South Korean creative and cultural content has garnered significant global interest, commonly known as the Korean Wave or Hallyu. While this phenomenon has been studied extensively in many countries, its impact on Central Europe, particularly Hungary, remains largely unexplored. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the...

This paper delves into the concept and implications of Hallyu, also known as the Korean Wave. Despite being a cultural industry, Hallyu is a multi-layered text with diverse meanings, underscoring the need to comprehend and interpret it. The paper contends that studying and comprehending Hallyu can contribute significantly to promoting international...

This paper analyzes the implications of Korean television format exports against the backdrop of newly developing global media industries. Firstly, this paper explores the social and historical milieu in which the new concept of format has been accepted and established in Korea’s broadcasting industry. Secondly, following the view of the British br...

The cyber harassment of South Korean pop star Tablo circa 2010 illustrates numerous interlocking social issues including Internet participation, perpetuation of hate crimes and slander, globalization, nationalism, military service, and the vital importance of education in Korean society. This case indicates the necessity of revisiting the Internet'...

Global consumers are increasingly enjoying popular cultural products such as music, film, television and other audiovisual media content through online social media community networks. Recently, Korean pop music, or K-pop, has become one of the most dynamically distributed forms of pop culture in the global pop market through these 'social distribu...

In this paper we draw from recent theoretical discussions of fan culture and the new media technologies to explore how online communities contribute to new forms of K-pop fandom. We suggest that these online sites play an important role in setting the new stage of dissemination and dialogue of K-pop knowledge, through which particular forms and spa...

In the past decade, the Korean film industry has enjoyed never-before-seen success at home and abroad. With the high domestic market share of local movies (recording more than 40% market share continuously from 2001), it has been reported that Korea is "the only nation during the post-Vietnam War history that would regain its domestic audiences aft...

Reports on the Korean culture's gaining popularity among foreign audiences have filled the Korean news media for more than a decade by now. On the other hand, some observers have begun to argue that the hyper-commercialism has brought the Korean cultural industries to a crisis. By examining a brief history of U.S. commercial media system's global s...

While it has become trite to comment on the forces of global change, globalization is not simply about economy, technology or culture. When Appadurai defines globalization as a "tension between cultural homogenization and cultural heterogenization," we can easily supplant "cultural" for "linguistic." Today, English is increasingly established as a...

This chapter examines the rise of the “Korean Wave” in the new millennium in terms of governmental and corporate support. It also empirically investigates the government support, investments of chaebols (Korean conglomerates), and processes of capital accumulation in the media sector. In order to account for the growth of Korean popular culture int...

In this book, an international group of contributors provide a multi-layered analysis of the emerging East Asian media culture, using the Korean TV drama as its analytic vehicle. This collection of essays is also the result of a workshop organized by the Cultural Studies in Asia Research Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University o...

This paper aims to find the reasons for Korean television drama being popular in Asia. In particular, the author argues that the role of women's Korean drama fandom is important in the popularity of Korean television drama. What is the role of fandom? How is the gender identity related to women's television viewing? What is the communicative proces...

THE KOREAN BROADCASTING industry has experienced tremendous change in both scope and scale over the past two decades. The oligopolistic structure of the two public broadcasting networks existed in the 1980s with the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) and Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC). The Korean broadcasting industry, which was composed of on...

Against the backdrop of cultural globalization and regionalization, this study theorizes on transnational television consumption and cultural flows within Asia by examining the ways in which women of the Korean diaspora enjoy homeland television drama while living in Singapore. It was found that Korean drama viewing provides these women with cultur...

Recent developments in East and Southeast Asian media markets provide an opportunity to revisit a common assumption about media globalization. A newly coined phrase - Korean wave - which refers to the popularity of Korean media culture across East and Southeast Asia, is a metaphor for thinking about this recent regional media development. Through a...

This paper examines the changes in the Korean media industry with reference to the Korean economic crisis in the 1990s as Korean big business, or chaebol, previously unconcerned with the media industry, expanded into that sector.Given the conventional close relationship between the state and big business in Korean economic development, this new bus...

This study is a historical analysis of Asian American portrayals in entertainment media and a contextualization of their meaning in society. The general nature of Asian stereotypes and the racial formation projected in those stereotypes are examined. With knowledge of this history, the recent renewed propensity to depict Asians as “illegalists” wil...

Typescript. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-120).