John Lie, What is the K in K-pop? South Korean Popular Music, the Culture Industry, and National Identity

This article focuses on the source of K-pop’s commercial success and the meaning of that success for South Korean society and culture. It links Korean…

Tags: Hallyu, K-pop, Korean popular culture, Korean Wave, popular music

Gil-Sung Park, Manufactured Creativity: Production, Performance and Dissemination of K-pop

K-pop represents a unique and distinct Korean system of “manufacturing creativity,” which involves utilizing global music talents. This article…

Tags: creativity, globalization, Hallyu, K-pop, localization, manufactured creativity, music industry, social network service (SNS) sites

Benjamin Han, K-pop in Latin America: Transcultural Fandom and Digital Mediation

K-pop is a subculture and through digital means, develops into a transcultural fandom that results in its incorporation into Latin American mass…

Tags: Benjamin Han, cultural diplomacy, digital culture, fan activism, fandom, International Journal of Communication, K-pop, Korean Wave, Latin America, transcultural fandom

Seong Cheol Choi, Xanat Vargas Meza and Han Woo Park, South Korean Culture Goes Latin America: Social Network Analysis of Kpop Tweets in Mexico

This study analyzes the tweets of K-pop fans in Mexico focusing on topics in mentions in retweets. As a social networking service, Twitter is a…

Tags: Han Woo Park, International Journal of Contents, K-pop, Korean Wave, Kpop, Mexico, Seong Cheol Choi, Social Network Analysis, Twitter, Xanat Vargas Meza

Cho Hae-Joang, Reading the ‘Korean Wave’ as a Sign of Global Shift

This article uses discourse analysis of newspaper and magazine articles during 2001 as well as fieldwork to reveal how the Korean Wave allowed Koreans…

Tags: cultural nationalism, culture industry, discourse analysis, globalization, Hallyu, Korean Wave, neoliberalism, postcolonialism