01563cam a2200265 i 4500 26883 BD-DhIUB 20230910115231.0 190207s2019 enk b 001 0 eng c 9781138477674 (hardback) 9780367662233 BD-DhIUB 23 303.482519305195 S72611 South Korean popular culture and North Korea / edited by Youna Kim. London and New York : Routledge, 2020. 191 p. ; 25 cm. Media, culture and social change in Asia ; 60 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. Popular culture Korea (South) Popular culture Korea (North) Culture diffusion Korea (South) Kim, Youna, editor. ddc BK 0 26883 26842