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This book departs from existing studies by focusing on the impact
of international influences on the society, culture, and language
of both North and South Korea. Since President Kim Young Sam's
segyehwa drive of the mid-1990s, South Korea has become a model for
successful globalization. In contrast, North Korea is commonly
considered one of the least internationally integrated countries.
This characterization fails to account for the reality of the two
Koreas and their global engagements. The opening essay situates the
chapters by highlighting some significant contrasts and
commonalities between the experiences of North and South Korea's
history of engagement with the world beyond the Peninsula. The
chapters explore both the longer-term historical influence of
Korea's international contacts as well as specific Korean cultural,
linguistic, and social developments that have occurred since the
1990s demise of the global Cold War and greater international
integration.
Almost forty years after the publication of Hobsbawm and Ranger’s
The Invention of Tradition, the subject of invented
traditions—cultural and historical practices that claim a
continuity with a distant past but which are in fact of relatively
recent origin—is still relevant, important, and highly
contentious. Invented Traditions in North and South Korea examines
the ways in which compressed modernity, Cold War conflict, and
ideological opposition has impacted the revival of traditional
forms in both Koreas. The volume is divided thematically into
sections covering: (1) history, religions, (2) language, (3) music,
food, crafts, and finally, (4) space. It includes chapters on
pseudo-histories, new religions, linguistic politeness, literary
Chinese, p’ansori, heritage, North Korean food, architecture, and
the invention of children’s pilgrimages in the DPRK. As the first
comparative study of invented traditions in North and South Korea,
the book takes the reader on a journey through Korea’s epic
twentieth century, examining the revival of culture in the context
of colonialism, decolonization, national division, dictatorship,
and modernization. The book investigates what it describes as
"monumental" invented traditions formulated to maintain order,
loyalty, and national identity during periods of political upheaval
as well as cultural revivals less explicitly connected to political
power. Invented Traditions in North and South Korea demonstrates
that invented traditions can teach us a great deal about the
twentieth-century political and cultural trajectories of the two
Koreas. With contributions from historians, sociologists,
folklorists, scholars of performance, and anthropologists, this
volume will prove invaluable to Koreanists, as well as teachers and
students of Korean and Asian studies undergraduate courses.
The "Korean Wave", or Hallyu phenomenon, has brought South Korean
popular culture to the global population. Studies on Korean visual
culture have therefore often focused on this aspect, leaving North
Korea sidelined and often considered in a negative light because of
its political regime. Korean Screen Cultures sets out to redress
this imbalance with a broad selection of essays spanning both North
and South as well as different methodological approaches, from
ethnographic and audience studies to cultural materialist readings.
The first section of the book, "The South", highlights popular
media - including online gaming and television drama - and
concentrates on the margins, in which the very nature of "The
South" is contested. "The South and the North" examines North Korea
as an ideological other in South Korean popular culture as well as
discussing North Korean cinema itself. "The Global" offers new
approaches to Korean popular culture beyond national borders and
includes work on K-pop and Korean television drama. This book is a
vital addition to existing scholarship on Korean popular culture,
offering a unique view by providing an imaginary unification of the
two Koreas negotiated through local and transnational popular
culture flows.
Almost forty years after the publication of Hobsbawm and Ranger's
The Invention of Tradition, the subject of invented
traditions-cultural and historical practices that claim a
continuity with a distant past but which are in fact of relatively
recent origin-is still relevant, important, and highly contentious.
Invented Traditions in North and South Korea examines the ways in
which compressed modernity, Cold War conflict, and ideological
opposition has impacted the revival of traditional forms in both
Koreas. The volume is divided thematically into sections covering:
(1) history, religions, (2) language, (3) music, food, crafts, and
finally, (4) space. It includes chapters on pseudo-histories, new
religions, linguistic politeness, literary Chinese, p'ansori,
heritage, North Korean food, architecture, and the invention of
children's pilgrimages in the DPRK. As the first comparative study
of invented traditions in North and South Korea, the book takes the
reader on a journey through Korea's epic twentieth century,
examining the revival of culture in the context of colonialism,
decolonization, national division, dictatorship, and modernization.
The book investigates what it describes as "monumental" invented
traditions formulated to maintain order, loyalty, and national
identity during periods of political upheaval as well as cultural
revivals less explicitly connected to political power. Invented
Traditions in North and South Korea demonstrates that invented
traditions can teach us a great deal about the twentieth-century
political and cultural trajectories of the two Koreas. With
contributions from historians, sociologists, folklorists, scholars
of performance, and anthropologists, this volume will prove
invaluable to Koreanists, as well as teachers and students of
Korean and Asian studies undergraduate courses.
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