Transnational Korean Television: Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audiences

Hyejung Ju

doi:10.5771/9781498565189

Summary

Transnational Korean Television: Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audience provides previously absent analyses of Korean TV dramas’ transnational influences, peculiar production features, distribution, and consumption to enrich the contextual understanding of Korean TV's transcultural mobility. Even as academic discussions about the Korean Wave have heated up, Korean television studies from transnational viewpoints often lack in-depth analysis and overlook the recently extended flow of Korean television beyond Asia. This book illustrates the ecology of Korean television along with the Korean Wave for the past two decades in order to showcase Korean TV dramas’ international mobility and its constant expansion with the different Western television and their audiences. Korean TV dramas’ mobility in crossing borders has been seen in both transnational and transcultural flows, and the book opens up the potential to observe the constant flow of Korean television content in new places, peoples, manners, and platforms around the world. Scholars of media studies, communication, cultural studies, and Asian studies will find this book especially useful.

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Edition: 1/2019
Copyright year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-6517-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-6518-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 132
Product type: Book Titles

1. Copyright page No access
2. Contents No access
3. List of Figures and Tables No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
1. 1. East Asian Media Landscapes during the 1990s No access
  2. The Korean Wave and Korean TV Drama No access
  3. Korean Television Program Exports No access
  4. The Korean Television System and Broadcasting Corporations No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. Universal Theme: Romance in K-dramas No access
  2. Korean Romance Narratives: The Prototype and Cultural Sentiment No access
  3. Transcultural Storytelling: Gender, Class, and Racial/Ethnic Images No access
  4. K-drama Viewers’ Rituals No access
  5. Notes No access
3. 1. A Regional Drama, Meteor Garden No access
  2. Partnerships between Korean and Chinese Television No access
  3. Partnerships between Korean and Japanese Television No access
1. 1. Netflix and Korean Drama Viewers in America No access
  2. Viewers, Fans, and Fan Studies on Transnational Television No access
  3. Notes No access
2. 1. Divergent Transnational TV Consumption in the Age of Media Convergence No access
  2. Streaming Korean Television and the Meaning of Streaming Viewership No access
  3. Netflix: K-dramas’ Global Streaming Channel No access
  4. DramaFever.com: The First Legal Streaming of Korean TV Shows in America No access
  5. Notes No access
3. 1. Television Format: How Does It Work Internationally? No access
  2. Korean Television Formats in the United States: Dramas and Variety Shows No access
Conclusion No access Pages 111 - 116
Bibliography No access Pages 117 - 128
Index No access Pages 129 - 130
About the Author No access Pages 131 - 132