These two excellent books expand in important ways a field of research that has developed over the last fifteen years, the study of film and other popular culture media from Korea. The books both stand at the intersection of at least two disciplines that have in recent years entered an intensified exchange and overlap, area studies and media studies. Contemporary popular culture media from Korea as an object of study seems especially well-suited to addressing two of the most pressing issues confronting that intersection, issues that are connected to two forms of border crossing: The circulation of contents across media on the one hand and their circulation across national and regional contexts on the other.

The ever-increasing number of publications on film and popular media from Korea is then part of a perfect storm: the exploding worldwide popularity of Korean films, K-pop music, and Korean online games since the early...

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