South Korean popular culture and North Korea:

"Over recent decades South Korea's vibrant and distinctive populist culture has spread extensively throughout the world. This book explores how this "Korean wave" has also made an impact in North Korea. The book reveals that although South Korean media has to be consumed undergro...

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Other Authors: Kim, Youna (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2019
Series:Media, culture and social change in Asia
Media, culture, and social change in Asia series 60
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"Over recent decades South Korea's vibrant and distinctive populist culture has spread extensively throughout the world. This book explores how this "Korean wave" has also made an impact in North Korea. The book reveals that although South Korean media has to be consumed underground and unofficially in North Korea, it is widely watched and listened to. The book examines the ways in which this is leading to popular yearning in North Korea for migration, defecting to the South or for people to just become more like South Koreans. Overall, the book demonstrates that the soft power of the Korean wave is having an undermining impact on the hard, constraining cultural climate of North Korea"--
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 02, 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 191 pages)
ISBN:9781351104111
135110411X
9781351104128
1351104128
9781351104104
1351104101
9781351104098
1351104098