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This book breaks down the stereotypes often expected of Korean popular culture, showing how the lines of gender, sexuality, and stereotype in Hallyu productions are often blurred to be palatable to Korean audiences or clarified to attract global audiences.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Tracking the Korean Style: Hallyu in Hanoi, or Style in the Time of Corona
Michael Hurt
Chapter 2: "Girl Power" DPRK Style: The Girl Group Phenomenon in North Korea and its Fans across East Asia
Peter Moody and Seunghee Ha
Chapter 3: Disaporic Koreanness in Kim's Convenience
Kyong Yoon
Chapter 4: The New Country Women: Exploring Popular Representations of Korean Gwichon and Transnational Women's Marriage-Migration to the Korean Countryside
Snigdha Gupta
Chapter 5: Gender, Genre, and History in Great Queen Seondeok
Michael Ormsbee
Chapter 6: Breaking the Stereotype of Domestic Adoption in K-dramas
Marcy L. Tanter
Chapter 7: Crying Men Watching Webtoons: Misaeng and Korean Male Audiences
Jahyon Park
Chapter 8: "LISTEN TO K-POP, BURN THE POLICE!": Swastikas, Feminism, and LGBTQ Rights in the 2019-2020 Chilean Protests
Moisés Park
Chapter 9: Queering the Wave: Drag Queens and Drag Kings in the K-Pop Industry
Tiago Canário
Chapter 10: K-pop Performance, Transcultural Negotiation of Gender Identity, and Belonging: A Case Study of a Peruvian Drag Queen Dancing to K-pop
Min Suk Kim
About the Contributors
About the author
Marcy L. Tanter is an active teacher-scholar and international education advisor for the May 18 Memorial Foundation in Gwangju, South Korea.
Moisés Park is assistant professor in the Modern Languages and Cultures department at Baylor University.
Summary
This book breaks down the stereotypes often expected of Korean popular culture, showing how the lines of gender, sexuality, and stereotype in Hallyu productions are often blurred to be palatable to Korean audiences or clarified to attract global audiences.
