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Author : Shin Dong Kim
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of the Korean Television Industry written by Shin Dong Kim and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jimmyn Parc
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030803422
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Untold Story of the Korean Film Industry written by Jimmyn Parc and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the Korean film industry emergence and development in a global business and economic perspective. This is one of the first books to compare the film policies and industries of the world’s six largest film industries – featuring Korea as the central character – with the aim of defining the contours of what constitutes an effective film policy. It presents many cases showing that, contrary to what is often believed, an economically sound policy is a good instrument for achieving desired cultural goals. It uses a set of analytical tools – borrowed from the economic analysis of international trade policies – to provide a rich harvest of new, rigorous, and often unexpected results on the effectiveness of the existing film policies. The implications found in this book are relevant not only for Korea, but for all other countries that wish to foster or enhance the competitiveness of their film industries. This book will be of interest to a wide spectrum of scholars interested in cultural studies – media and cultural specialists, political scientists, sociologists, historians – in addition to business analysts and economists specialized in cultural economics. As this book focuses on film policies and how to improve them, it will also appeal to policymakers, business figures, public relations officials, and staff from international organizations working on the film industry.
Author : Hoyoung Kim
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book A Feminist Political Economy of Cultural Work written by Hoyoung Kim and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores the working lives and labour activism of South Korean television writers, who are predominantly women, from a feminist political economy perspective. The dissertation provides a deepened and expanded understanding of cultural work, focusing on its content and gendered nature, as well as on the labour process and the precarity that workers experience in South Korean cultural industries. The key research questions guiding this study are: 1) Why are women the overwhelming majority of writers in the South Korean television industry? 2) What does the labour of Korean television writers entail, and what forms of precarity do writers face in their working lives? Finally, 3) how do some Korean television writers struggle collectively against the problematic aspects of their precarious working conditions? The primary research consists of in-depth interviews conducted with 91 research participants in South Korea from June 2018 to August 2019. In particular, the dissertation develops several conceptual tools for exploring cultural work in cultural industries, including the labour of cultural conception and communicative labour. It also unpacks the gendered and precarious nature of cultural work, and the concrete dimensions of the exploitation of a cultural workforce, including piecework, invisibility of workers, and a dependence on emotional labour. Through the lens of the intersection between capitalism and patriarchy, this dissertation shows how separation, discrimination, and hierarchy impact the exploitation of labour and production processes. Moreover, it suggests that working creatively, autonomously, and equitably should be recognized as a basic labour right. Finally, the dissertation develops the concept of feminization as a valuable tool for understanding labour and precarity in contemporary capitalism by examining a unique example of the feminization of the writing workforce in the Korean television industry.
Author : Mara Kasten
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346409422
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Netflix's role in the South Korean over-the-top-video market written by Mara Kasten and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,0, University of Tubingen (Institut für Medienwissenschaft), course: Global Media Theory, language: English, abstract: This paper discusses, on the one hand, the South Korean (hereafter Korea) OTT (over the top) video market and the struggles of foreign SVOD (subscription video on demand) services in Korea. On the other hand, it looks at the distribution of Korean media content in a global context through digital platforms. The primary example chosen is Netflix. First, I will briefly review the selected literature, then list the rationale and thesis before explaining why a political economy approach is used, and what theoretical framework is applied in the analysis. In the main section, the objects of analysis are the highly competitive Korean OTT market, and the role of Netflix in the distribution of Korean content outside of Korea. Finally, in the conclusion, I will reiterate the rationale, and state how I have argued the thesis statement. Additionally, the main findings will be summarized, and the usefulness of the selected theoretical framework evaluated.
Author : Kyong Yoon Yong Jin
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498562043
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Communication, Digital Media, and Popular Culture in Korea written by Kyong Yoon Yong Jin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, Korean communication and media have substantially grown to become some of the most significant segments of Korean society. Since the early 1990s, Korea has experienced several distinctive changes in its politics, economy, and technology, which are directly related to the development of local media and culture. Korea has greatly developed several cutting-edge technologies, such as smartphones, video games, and mobile instant messengers to become the most networked society throughout the world. As the Korean Wave exemplifies, the once small and peripheral Korea has also created several unique local popular cultures, including television programs, movies, and popular music, known as K-pop, and these products have penetrated many parts of the world. As Korean media and popular culture have rapidly grown, the number of media scholars and topics covering these areas in academic discourses has increased. These scholars’ interests have expanded from traditional media, such as Korean journalism and cinema, to several new cutting-edge areas, like digital technologies, health communication, and LGBT-related issues. In celebrating the Korean American Communication Association’s fortieth anniversary in 2018, this book documents and historicizes the growth of growing scholarship in the realm of Korean media and communication.
Author : Tu-bo Sim
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Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Korean Big Business Awakens to Media Industry written by Tu-bo Sim and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yang Liu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The Latest Korean TV Format Wave on Chinese Television written by Yang Liu and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since China's reform and open-up, the political economic structure of Chinese media has experienced a huge transformation. Though still officially controlled by the Chinese state, Chinese media have been increasingly relying on commercial avenues. In order to reach the most lucrative consumer segment, Chinese TV producers have been striving to attract the urban middle class and create entertainment programs that cater to their latest tastes. The theories of audience commodity and digital labor are able to explain how Chinese television programs are oriented to the urban middle class, to the neglect of the voices of more marginal social groups. Although the phenomenon of buying foreign program copyrights is not new for Chinese TV producers, the latest Chinese versions of Korean reality shows, exemplified by Dad, Where are We Going, have become a special genre with high audience ratings. However, with their omnipresent inserted ads and product placements, it is also clear that that Chinese television has been commercialized one step further. In doing so, these popular programs have strengthened their class bias in a more obvious way, allowing middle class values and ideologies to become the most prominent mainstream social values. This has further diminished the space for China's working class and farmers to express their voices. As Chinese television is further subordinated to the commercial logic, it has also intensified its role in shaping class relations in Chinese society.
Author : Heisoo Shin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (551 download)
Download or read book Women's Sexual Services and Economic Development written by Heisoo Shin and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dal Jin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252098145
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book New Korean Wave written by Dal Jin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2012 smash "Gangnam Style" by the Seoul-based rapper Psy capped the triumph of Hallyu , the Korean Wave of music, film, and other cultural forms that have become a worldwide sensation. Dal Yong Jin analyzes the social and technological trends that transformed South Korean entertainment from a mostly regional interest aimed at families into a global powerhouse geared toward tech-crazy youth. Blending analysis with insights from fans and industry insiders, Jin shows how Hallyu exploited a media landscape and dramatically changed with the 2008 emergence of smartphones and social media, designating this new Korean Wave as Hallyu 2.0. Hands-on government support, meanwhile, focused on creative industries as a significant part of the economy and turned intellectual property rights into a significant revenue source. Jin also delves into less-studied forms like animation and online games, the significance of social meaning in the development of local Korean popular culture, and the political economy of Korean popular culture and digital technologies in a global context.
Author : Chunhyo Kim
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (99 download)
Download or read book A Family Affair written by Chunhyo Kim and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation investigates the nature of Korean media giants among members of Asian media conglomerates in the era of media marketization. Since the 1980s, each state in Asia has adopted neoliberal media laws and policies that have made its media systems more market-driven. This neoliberal media reform led to the restructuring of media systems from state-controlled systems to profit-oriented ones and facilitating the emergence of Asian media conglomerates. However, scholarship on the nature of Asian media giants has been sparse in critical media studies. Thus, I conduct a case study to explore the nature of Asian media giants with a focus on the interplay between media ownership and media markets in order to determine the major beneficiaries of Asian media marketization. I focus on the three Korean media conglomerates of Samsung, CJ and JoongAng Ilbo groups during the period from 1998 to 2012 when the Korean state applied the neoliberal media mode to the Korean media systems. Utilizing the theoretical approach of political economy of communication, I examine three points: (1) the relationship between the era of neoliberal media and the structures of four media markets (e.g., advertising, daily newspaper, cable television and film); (2) the interconnections among media expansions, media ownership and informal ties (e.g., blood and marriage ties); and (3) the relationship between the changed structures of those four media markets and corporate censorship of the three chaebol groups. To address these questions, I used both institutional and corporate profiling techniques and then analyzed both governmental and secondary documents, including those covering structures of media markets, media ownership, boards of directors, media expansions and emergent issues in the information and entertainment markets. Consequently, my analysis finds that neoliberal media laws and policies led to forming centralized market structures controlled by chaebol groups with connections to Western media conglomerates and/or foreign capital. Also, I find that the Lee family members used family connections to expand their media businesses and control multiple media operations, thereby becoming the media emperor in Korea. Finally, my analysis shows that a media-oriented ideology has rarely guaranteed free competition among market players but has instead led to increasing the market polarization between a few market controllers and many independent media companies. In other words, my study indicates that the neoliberal media mode allowed family capitalists in Korea with foreign capital to control the structures of media markets.
Author : Micky Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134972601
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Understanding the Business of Global Media in the Digital Age written by Micky Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new introductory textbook provides students with the tools they need to understand the way digital technologies have transformed the global media business of the 21st century. Focusing on three main approaches – media economics, critical political economy, and production studies – the authors provide an empirically rich analysis of ownership, organizational structures and culture, business strategies, markets, networks of strategic alliances, and state policies as they relate to global media. Examples throughout involve both traditional and digital media and are taken from different regions and countries to illustrate how the media business is influenced by interconnected historical, political, economic, and social factors. In addition to introducing today’s convergent world of global media, the book gives readers a greater understanding of their own potential roles within the global media industries.
Author : Beng Huat Chua
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622098923
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (989 download)
Download or read book East Asian Pop Culture written by Beng Huat Chua and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors analyse the subject of Asian pop culture arranged under three headings: 'Television Industry in East Asia', 'Transnational-Crosscultural Receptions of TV Dramas' and 'Nationalistic reactions'.
Author : Hae-su Shin
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (278 download)
Download or read book Women's Sexual Services and Economic Development written by Hae-su Shin and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dal Yong Jin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000932192
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Understanding the Korean Wave written by Dal Yong Jin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and critical introduction to understanding the Korean Wave (Hallyu) as a transnational media phenomenon. This book provides an accessible introduction to the Korean Wave—the rapid growth of local cultural industries and the global popularity of Korean popular culture over the past 30 years—providing historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural context to its initial rise and enduring popularity. Jin explores the transnational cultural flows of Hallyu across a variety of products and digital technologies—from television dramas, film, and K-pop to online games, and webtoons—and explains the process of cross-media convergence and the socio-political contexts behind the Hallyu phenomenon. He also explores how overseas fans and audiences advance K-pop fandom as social agents in different geo-cultural contexts. The book concludes by discussing if Hallyu can become a sustainable global popular culture beyond a fan-based regional cultural phenomenon. Each chapter features detailed contemporary case studies and discussion questions to enhance student engagement. This is essential reading for students of Media and Communication, Cultural Studies, Korean Studies, and Asian Studies, particularly those taking classes on popular culture and media, media and globalization, Korean popular culture, and East Asian culture.
Author : Kyung You
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Entertaining Politics written by Kyung You and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observing the paucity of research on political entertainment in Korea, this study has explored the historical transformation in Korean political entertainment through the lens of changing social and economic conditions, as well as shifts in power relations, over the past several decades. The study has taken two broad and interrelated research questions as its starting points: "How are political, economic, and social forms of power associated with the production, distribution, and consumption of political entertainment?" and "How has the production and dissemination of such programs changed over the past half-century and in what specific contexts?" This approach has allowed particular attention to the role of political institutions in regulating media industries; the origin of Korean political entertainment and its distinctive features; the factors and conditions influencing the transformation in formats and genres of political entertainment; and the effects of technological shifts on political entertainment. To answer these questions, this study began by examining the politics of Mandam, as its origin of a hybrid form of political information and entertainment during the period of the 1930s. In particular, I argue that the initial rise of political entertainment in the early stages of modern Korea was led by the business sectors for commercial purposes, i.e., Mandam was situated at the nexus of the record industry, the theater business, the newspaper business, and the radio broadcasting industry. Though Mandam played a crucial role in the shaping of political opinion by conveying political information in a satirical way, it lost cultural influence with technological breakthroughs such as developments in radio broadcasting and the introduction of television. Accordingly, political entertainment did not flourish due to stringent political censorship until 1987, and the breakdown in the business relationships between newspaper companies and radio stations, which I called the dark period of political entertainment in Korea. During the period of military regimes which implemented a dual media policy epitomized as regulation and promotion directly influenced a transformation in the formats and genres of comedy on television. During the period, a handful of allegorical comedies as well as satiric call-in-shows continued to broadcast, stand-up comedy programs could not be dominate the airwaves.Political entertainment faced another dramatic change concurrent with changing political circumstances in 1987. The '87 democratization movement proved a turning point for the boost in producing allegorical political satiric comedies and mock news shows. However, the IMF crisis and the rise of hallyu phenomenon contributed to the commercialization and globalization of Korean media industry, which resulted in a decrease of production and distribution of political entertainment program. Along with the rapid commercialization and globalization of Korean media industry after the IMF crisis, political entertainment programs were integrated into a unique form of Korean infotainment called the real variety show. Though the real variety show drew some attention, it focused more on civic education than political criticism, thereby causing the level of satiric criticism in infotainment to significantly decrease.Recently, politics-oriented blended programs reappear along with the introduction of a comprehensive programming system on cable networks (CP-CATV) cross-owned by major newspaper companies. These cable networks actively produced programs that blended news and entertainment for commercial purposes such as live news shows with political pundits and celebrities, mock news shows, and televisual satires. Though such hybrid programs contributed to the commercial success of CP-CATVs by reducing production costs, These programs provide on cable TV raised serious concerns about journalistic principles such as objectivity and impartiality in reporting, although these programs provides helped increase interest in political affairs. In the meantime, political entertainment within new media has shed light on the possibility of producing a counter-political discourse that would provide an alternative to the conservative bent mainstream news media, as exemplified by NaNeunGgomSuda (NGS). Over the past decade, political entertainment has faced dramatic change concurrent with technological breakthroughs and with dramatic changing political-economic circumstances such as a dual media policy epitomized as regulation and promotion led by two military regimes, the '87 democratization movement, the IMF economic crisis in 1997 and the rise of the hallyu phenomenon, which have directly influenced a transformation in the formats and genres of political entertainment programming. Political entertainment has undergone various transformations in response to a variety of external and internal challenges it has faced. Recently, a number of new hybrid formats that more strikingly problematize traditional distinctions between news and entertainment, and even fact and fiction, have developed. Political entertainment can be characterized as border genres that populate the space between the still-potent public perceptions of news/entertainment and fact/fiction. The results of the historical analysis of the transformation of political entertainment within Korean context can provide insight into how political entertainment has been generated and its history and functioning in specific contexts, given the current rise in the number of political entertainment programs. The implications of the study and recommendations for further research directions are also discussed.
Author : Dal Yong Jin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262288966
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Korea's Online Gaming Empire written by Dal Yong Jin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid growth of the Korean online game industry, viewed in social, cultural, and economic contexts. In South Korea, online gaming is a cultural phenomenon. Games are broadcast on television, professional gamers are celebrities, and youth culture is often identified with online gaming. Uniquely in the online games market, Korea not only dominates the local market but has also made its mark globally. In Korea's Online Gaming Empire, Dal Yong Jin examines the rapid growth of this industry from a political economy perspective, discussing it in social, cultural, and economic terms. Korea has the largest percentage of broadband subscribers of any country in the world, and Koreans spend increasing amounts of time and money on Internet-based games. Online gaming has become a mode of socializing—a channel for human relationships. The Korean online game industry has been a pioneer in software development and eSports (electronic sports and leagues). Jin discusses the policies of the Korean government that encouraged the development of online gaming both as a cutting-edge business and as a cultural touchstone; the impact of economic globalization; the relationship between online games and Korean society; and the future of the industry. He examines the rise of Korean online games in the global marketplace, the emergence of eSport as a youth culture phenomenon, the working conditions of professional gamers, the role of game fans as consumers, how Korea's local online game industry has become global, and whether these emerging firms have challenged the West's dominance in global markets.
Author : John Lie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520283120
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book K-Pop written by John Lie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a history of South Korean popular music—the premodern background, Japanese colonial influence, post-Liberation American impact, and recent globalization—but also a description of K-pop as a system of economic innovation and cultural production. In doing so, he delves into the broader background of South Korea in this wonderfully informed history and analysis of a pop culture phenomenon sweeping the globe.
