Reading the ＂Korean Wave＂ as a Sign of Global Shift

In this paper, I examined the discourse surrounding the Korean Wave, the phenomenon of Korean popular cultures burgeoning popularity in Asian societies, within South Korea media from 2001 till 2005. Struggling to interpret a constantly changing reality, the cultural nationalist, the neoliberal, and the postcolonial camps were drawing the discursive terrain of the Korean Wave, sometimes clashing and at other times engaging each other in strategic compromises. The initial diverse discourses congealed and merged in their concentration on economic profit later on, which is indicative of a neoliberal turn in the 2000s Korea. The media technology revolution and global capitalism prepared the system for the manufacture of cultural products and circulation within Asia, and formed the coeval space of capitalist Asia. However, the diverse images and texts circulating within Asia were providing new opportunities to construct an alternate consciousness through the sharing of popular culture. Non-Western societies which used to measure their modernities against Western standards entered the new stage of subject formation.

keywords: globalization, modernity, culture industry, cultural nationalism, neoliberalism, postcolonialism, contact zone, globalization, modernity, culture industry, cultural nationalism, neoliberalism, postcolonialism, contact zone

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Vol.45 No.4

Reading the ＂Korean Wave＂ as a Sign of Global Shift

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