Here Comes the Flood

Marcy L. Tanter; Moisés Park

doi:10.5771/9781793636317

Summary

This collection breaks down the stereotypes often expected of Korean popular culture, specifically examining issues of gender, sexuality, and stereotype in a variety of cultural products including K-pop, K-drama, and cover dancing through the lens of how “Koreanness” can be defined. A diverse range of of contributors showcase how Hallyu, or the Korean Wave, began as a wave rolling across Asia and morphed into a tsunami that has impacted every continent, making Korean popular culture an industry that draws in fans on a global scale. The stereotypes and issues being explored in this collection, contributors argue, are intertwined with how Koreans both at home and in the diaspora portray themselves publicly and consider themselves privately. In tandem with this, international fans of Hallyu take part in the conversation through performance and imitation, either reinforcing or breaking away from these stereotypes. Contributors examine a wide variety of settings to connect the concepts of traditional Korean values to modern Korean society in a symbiotic relationship between these values and cultural content creators. Scholars of media studies, pop culture, gender studies, Asian studies, sociology, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-3630-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-3631-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 262
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. The “Korean Wave” Is More Than Hallyu No access
2. A Wave vs. The Flood No access
3. Theories, Performativity, and Fandom No access
4. The Chapters No access
5. Note No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. 1. The Style Imperative No access
  2. Fashion in the Time of Corona No access
  3. Defining the Korean Style No access
2. 1. On Technoculture No access
  2. Finding “Korea” in Vietnam No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Inflow: Hallyu in North Korea behind Closed Doors No access
3. 1. Liberalization No access
  2. Localization No access
  3. Standardization No access
  4. Normalization No access
4. 1. Within North Korea: The Emergence and Development of a “Conduit Fandom” No access
5. 1. Imitation is the Most Sincere Form of Excluding Politics: A Visible Yet “Curtailed Fandom” of the Moranbong Band in Japan No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Stories of Korean Diasporas No access
3. The Reception of Diasporic Comedy No access
4. Before and After the “Asian August” No access
5. 1. (In)convenient Stereotyping No access
  2. Being Stereotyped No access
  3. The Stereotyped Who Stereotype Others No access
  4. How Representation Matters No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Coda No access
8. Notes No access
9. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. 1. Hyori’s Bed and Breakfast (JTBC, 2017–2018) No access
  2. Little Forest (Yim Soon-rye, 2018) No access
  3. Heaven’s Garden (Channel A, 2011–2012) No access
3. The New Countrywomen: Rural Female Marriage-Migrants in Film and Television No access
4. Heaven’s Garden: Kim Myeong-ok No access
5. Namchon over the Mountain (KBS 1; 2007–2014) No access
6. Conclusion: The Cyclical Trajectory of the Countryside No access
7. Notes No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Situating Genre Theory within the Context of Korean Modernity No access
3. Great Queen Seondeok’s “melodramatic constitution” No access
4. At the Crossroads of Fiction and History No access
5. Melodrama, History, and the Repression of Female Desire No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. Domestic Adoption in Modern Korean Society No access
2. Attitudes toward Adoption No access
3. The Stigma of Single Motherhood No access
4. 1. Pinocchio No access
  2. Entertainer No access
  3. Mother No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Webtoon Daetgeul No access
2. Active Audiences in Digital Media Culture No access
3. The Emergence of Affective Male Audiences No access
4. Manly Emotion and New Masculine Ideals No access
5. 1. Subordination and Marginalization No access
  2. Communal Values and Fraternity No access
6. 1. Homosociality No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
9. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. The “Estallido Social” of 2019 #wearenotatwar #chilewokeup No access
3. Correlation, not Causation: Who Listens to K-pop in Chile? No access
4. The Zamudio Law and a Case for Causation No access
5. What Were Chilean Protestors Singing? No access
6. Preliminary Ethnographic Findings: Toward Further Studies of Correlation and Causation No access
7. Beyond Chile: Tulsa, TikTok, K-pop No access
8. Notes No access
9. Bibliography No access
1. Performing Gender in K-pop, Queering the Idol System No access
2. Queer Communities Enter the Stardom No access
3. The Rise of Queens: Drag Femininity in the K-Pop Industry No access
4. Drags as Idols No access
5. Beyond Femininity: What the Industry Hasn’t Been Talking About No access
6. Last Words No access
7. Notes No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Kriss Chae Rin’s Gender Performativity No access
2. Before K-pop: Kriss’s Childhood; and His First K-pop Gendering/Dancing No access
3. 1. K-pop’s Cross-gendering Culture and the Rise of Local Queer Fandom No access
4. Exploring Ways of Being Gendered, Obstacles, and the Inception of Kriss Chae Rin No access
5. Coming-Out, Gendering on K-pop, and Why Drag No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 253 - 258
About the Contributors No access Pages 259 - 262