Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 292
Search Results for Korean popular culture
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
The Birth of “Rok”: Cultural Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Glocalization of Rock Music in South Korea, 1964–1975
Available to Purchase
positions (2010) 18 (1): 199–230.
Published: 01 February 2010
... by the
Korean War at a young age. His generation was also the first to experience
American popular culture up close, mainly through the broadcasts of
the American Forces Korea Network (AFKN). “The AFKN quenched
my thirst for music...
View articletitled, The Birth of “Rok”: <span class="search-highlight">Cultural</span> Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Glocalization of Rock Music in South Korea, 1964–1975
View
PDF
for article titled, The Birth of “Rok”: <span class="search-highlight">Cultural</span> Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Glocalization of Rock Music in South Korea, 1964–1975
Journal Article
Contributors
Available to Purchase
positions 11628307.
Published: 27 February 2025
... of Asian Studies Conference, the World Congress of Korean Studies, and Mechademia. His research interests include animation, Japanese and Korean popular culture, global political economy, new media, and transnational fandoms. Peng Hai is assistant professor of modern China and Inner Asia in the Department...
Journal Article
Contributors
Available to Purchase
positions (2023) 31 (1): 255–256.
Published: 01 February 2023
...) and coeditor of The Korean Popular Culture Reader (2014). ...
Journal Article
Contributors
Available to Purchase
positions (2007) 15 (2): 449–450.
Published: 01 May 2007
... a PhD in Korean studies in the Depart
ment of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University, Sweden. His recent book, Comforting
an Orphaned Nation: Representations of International Adoption and Adopted Koreans in Korean
Popular...
Journal Article
Between Documentation and Dramatization: Modes of Critique in South Korean Yushin-Era Radio Culture
Available to Purchase
positions (2019) 27 (2): 397–420.
Published: 01 May 2019
... or adheres to hegemonic beliefs and practices. This article analyzes 1970s South Korean radio culture by juxtaposing one of the most popular radio docudramas of that decade, Pŏpch’ang yahwa ( Anecdotes of Law and Order ), with Ch’oe In-hun’s linked novel The Voice of the Governor General to suggest that even...
View articletitled, Between Documentation and Dramatization: Modes of Critique in South <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Yushin-Era Radio <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span>
View
PDF
for article titled, Between Documentation and Dramatization: Modes of Critique in South <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Yushin-Era Radio <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span>
Journal Article
Paris in Korean Cinema: Fraudulence and the Female Form in Hong Sang-soo's Night and Day and Kim Ki-duk's Wild Animals
Available to Purchase
positions (2023) 31 (1): 229–254.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Youngmin Choe Abstract This article explores how and why fraudulence and deception get coded as feminine in Korean politics and popular culture. Focusing on the processes whereby deception gets conflated with the female body, it examines filmic articulations of physical and rhetorical attacks...
FIGURES
View articletitled, Paris in <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Cinema: Fraudulence and the Female Form in Hong Sang-soo's Night and Day and Kim Ki-duk's Wild Animals
View
PDF
for article titled, Paris in <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Cinema: Fraudulence and the Female Form in Hong Sang-soo's Night and Day and Kim Ki-duk's Wild Animals
Journal Article
Treacherous Translation: The 1938 Japanese-Language Theatrical Version of the Korean Tale Ch'unhyangjŏn
Available to Purchase
positions (2010) 18 (1): 171–197.
Published: 01 February 2010
... bodies (botai) of Japanese culture.
Second, he specifically selectedCh’unhyangj o˘n among Korean literary works
because it was the most popular and thus most representative literary cre-
ation of Korea. Third, he hoped to entertain Koreans...
View articletitled, Treacherous Translation: The 1938 Japanese-Language Theatrical Version of the <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Tale Ch'unhyangjŏn
View
PDF
for article titled, Treacherous Translation: The 1938 Japanese-Language Theatrical Version of the <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Tale Ch'unhyangjŏn
Journal Article
Psychedelic Codes and Close Listening to South Korean Fiction, 1971 – 1989
Available to Purchase
positions (2025) 33 (1): 109–134.
Published: 01 February 2025
... Press 2025 popular music Korean literature youth culture psychedelia rock On Easter Sunday, 1974, explosions of Korean rock music washed over the Welch-Ryang Auditorium of Ewha Women's University for the first time. “Loud hard rock music shatters forth. Bright colored lights tear the air...
Journal Article
Redrawing the Division Lines?: Surplus, Connectivity, and Remediation in the South Korean Webtoon Secretly, Greatly
Available to Purchase
positions (2020) 28 (4): 701–727.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Dijck José . 2013 . The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Yi Hana . 2015 . “Han’guk taejung munhwa esŏŭi pan’gongjuui: ‘Pan’gong yŏnghwa’ ŭi chinhwa wa pulhwa” (“Anticommunism in South Korean Popular Culture...
View articletitled, Redrawing the Division Lines?: Surplus, Connectivity, and Remediation in the South <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Webtoon Secretly, Greatly
View
PDF
for article titled, Redrawing the Division Lines?: Surplus, Connectivity, and Remediation in the South <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Webtoon Secretly, Greatly
Journal Article
The Last Korean Animation: Wonderful Days and the Aesthetics of Global Monopoly Capitalism
Available to Purchase
positions 11626817.
Published: 27 February 2025
... Press 2025 Korean animation globalization Korean popular culture Japanese anime animation aesthetics ADVANCE PUBLICATION The Last Korean Animation: Wonderful Days and the Aesthetics of Global Monopoly Capitalism Zachary Samuel Gottesman This essay looks at Wonderful Days (2003), South Korea...
View articletitled, The Last <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Animation: Wonderful Days and the Aesthetics of Global Monopoly Capitalism
View
PDF
for article titled, The Last <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Animation: Wonderful Days and the Aesthetics of Global Monopoly Capitalism
Journal Article
Transnational Cultural Production and the Politics of Moribund Masculinity
Available to Purchase
positions (2008) 16 (3): 661–688.
Published: 01 August 2008
... of the Korean actor Chang Tong-gôn, who plays the hero
in this film. Chang is a prominent han-lyu star, a term that refers to Korean
popular cultural icons (notably singers and actors) who enjoy phenomenal
popularity in cultural commodity markets...
Journal Article
The Battle of Representations: Gazing at the Peace Monument or Comfort Women Statue
Available to Purchase
positions (2020) 28 (2): 363–387.
Published: 01 May 2020
... namseongjuche-uk yogmang” 전후 일본의 대중문화와 남성주체의 욕망 (“Popular Culture in Postwar Japan and Male Subject’s Desire”) . Ilbonhag 일본학 (Japan Studies) , no. 39 : 155 – 79 . Choi Eun-Ju 최은주 . 2015a . “Joseon-in wianbuui yeon-ae = salong-eul dulleossan jeongchi” 조선인 위안부의 연애=사랑을 둘러싼 정치 (“Korean Comfort...
Journal Article
“The Ending Is Not an Ending At All”: On the Militarized and Gendered Diasporas of Korean Transnational Adoption and the Korean War
Available to Purchase
positions (2015) 23 (4): 807–835.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., Comforting an Orphaned Nation: Representations of International
Adoption and Adopted Koreans in Korean Popular Culture (Edison, NJ: Jimoondang, 2006).
He writes, “Together with other critical postcolonial and feminist writers on international...
View articletitled, “The Ending Is Not an Ending At All”: On the Militarized and Gendered Diasporas of <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Transnational Adoption and the <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> War
View
PDF
for article titled, “The Ending Is Not an Ending At All”: On the Militarized and Gendered Diasporas of <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Transnational Adoption and the <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> War
Journal Article
The Making of a Cultural Icon for the Japanese Empire: Choe Seung-Hui's U.s. Dance Tours and “New Asian Culture” In the 1930s and 1940s
Available to Purchase
positions (2006) 14 (3): 597–632.
Published: 01 August 2006
...), which began publication in 1935, is one of the most
famous Korean popular magazines. Many famous Korean intellectuals discussed Korean
mass and popular culture in this monthly magazine.
78 Han Seol-ya, “Muyong sajeol Choe Seung-hui...
View articletitled, The Making of a <span class="search-highlight">Cultural</span> Icon for the Japanese Empire: Choe Seung-Hui's U.s. Dance Tours and “New Asian <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span>” In the 1930s and 1940s
View
PDF
for article titled, The Making of a <span class="search-highlight">Cultural</span> Icon for the Japanese Empire: Choe Seung-Hui's U.s. Dance Tours and “New Asian <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span>” In the 1930s and 1940s
Journal Article
The Discourse of Decolonization and Popular Memory: South Korea
Available to Purchase
positions (1993) 1 (1): 77–102.
Published: 01 February 1993
...-
tion of Korea,’ it required a tragedy before the Koreans would revise their
Choi I Decolonization and Popular Memory 81
analytic framework, which had uncritically privileged the centrality of the
West...
Journal Article
Writing Colonial Relations of Everyday Life in Senryu
Available to Purchase
positions (2008) 16 (3): 601–628.
Published: 01 August 2008
...
of Korean names, a rejection of Korean cultural identity. However, fearful
of creating an undifferentiated fusion of Japanese and Koreans, the impe-
rial state had to employ a means of distinguishing Korean from Japanese
subjects. One way to make...
Journal Article
Translational Nation: Politics and Re-presentation at the Independence Hall of Korea
Available to Purchase
positions (2022) 30 (1): 85–110.
Published: 01 February 2022
... in modern South Korean history in the context of Japanese imperialism. “Wianbu” 위안부 (“comfort women”), “Tongnipundong” 독립운동 (“the independence movement”), and “Ch'inilp'a” 친일파 (“the traitorous actions of pro-Japanese groups”) recur in history textbooks, popular culture, and political discourse, ensuring...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
Journal Article
Assimilation's Racializing Sensibilities: Colonized Koreans as Yobo s and the “ Yobo -ization” of Expatriate Japanese
Available to Purchase
positions (2013) 21 (1): 11–49.
Published: 01 February 2013
... as to legitimize the
annexation. Elsewhere, I have discussed the prominent role that “popular
ethnographers” such as Okita Kinj played in the creation of semicolonized
Korean culture. In his 1905 Rimen no Kankoku (Korea behind the Mask...
View articletitled, Assimilation's Racializing Sensibilities: Colonized <span class="search-highlight">Koreans</span> as Yobo s and the “ Yobo -ization” of Expatriate Japanese
View
PDF
for article titled, Assimilation's Racializing Sensibilities: Colonized <span class="search-highlight">Koreans</span> as Yobo s and the “ Yobo -ization” of Expatriate Japanese
Journal Article
Marxism, Anti-Americanism, and Democracy in South Korea: An Examination of Nationalist Intellectual Discourse
Available to Purchase
positions (1995) 3 (2): 510–536.
Published: 01 May 1995
... dictatorship,
recent economic pressure to open the Korean market, including the agri-
cultural sector, and a massive distortion of U.S. policy positions by the gov-
ernment-controlled Korean media and the U.S. failure to correct it.* Earlier...
Journal Article
Proletarian Melodrama: Censorship, Popularization, and Consumerism in Colonial Korea
Available to Purchase
positions (2024) 32 (3): 489–512.
Published: 01 August 2024
... the history of cultural formations and literary genres, which, by neglecting melodrama, has exaggerated the unchallenged supremacy and internal consistency of bourgeois narrative and social forms (10). Likewise, I interpret melodrama as a popular mode by means of which Korean proletarian authors spoke out...
1
