K-Pop - The International Rise of the Korean Music Industry

K-pop, described by Time Magazine in 2012 as "South Korea's greatest export", has rapidly achieved a large worldwide audience of devoted fans largely through distribution over the Internet. This book examines the phenomenon, and discusses the reasons for its success. It considers the national and transnational conditions that have played a role in K-pop's ascendancy, and explores how they relate to post-colonial modernisation, post-Cold War politics in East Asia, connections with the Korean diaspora, and the state-initiated campaign to accumulate soft power. As it is particularly concerned with fandom and cultural agency, it analyses fan practices, discourses, and underlying psychologies within their local habitus as well as in expanding topographies of online networks. Overall, the book addresses the question of how far "Asian culture" can be global in a truly meaningful way, and how popular culture from a "marginal" nation has become a global phenomenon.

About the author

JungBong Choi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, USA
Roald Maliangkay is Senior Lecturer in Korean Studies at the Australian National University, Australia

Product details

• Assisted by: JungBong Choi (Editor), Roald Maliangkay (Editor), Choi JungBong (Editor), Maliangkay Roald (Editor)
• Authors: Jungbong (New York University) Maliangkay Choi, Jungbong (New York University Choi
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 09.09.2014
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore
• EAN: 9781138775961
• ISBN: 978-1-138-77596-1
• Pages: 182
• Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• Subjects: Rock, Vincent van Gogh, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, MUSIC / Business Aspects, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Music Industry, South Korea, Pop Music, Popular Music, Tian Long, Korean wave, Korean pop culture, diaspora identity formation, Korean pop music, transnational cultural flows, Korean music industry, soft power studies, Korean Tv Drama, Korean Dramas, Korean Tv, Hallyu Phenomenon, East Asian popular culture, entertainment labour markets, globalisation of Asian music industry, fandom ethnography, Japanese Music Industry, Fuji Tv, Korean Tv Series, Korean Culture Industry, Korean Singers, Cover Dance, Cultural Enlisting, Japanese Fans, Idol Band, Idol Groups