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South Korean popular culture and North Korea / edited by Youna Kim.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Media, culture and social change in Asia ; 60Publisher: London and New York : Routledge, 2020Description: 191 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781138477674 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 303.482519305195 S72611
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Barcode
Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Window on Korea Non-fiction 303.482519305195 S72611 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2020 01 Available WOK000946
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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