This edited volume analyzes the Korean diaspora across the world and traces the meaning and the performance of homeland. The contributors explore different types of discourses among Korean diaspora across the world, such as personal/familial narratives, oral/life histories, public discourses, and media discourses. They also examine the notion of "space" to diasporic experiences, arguing meanings of space/place for Korean diaspora are increasingly multifaceted.

Cutting across diverse disciplines, such as economics, sociology, public administration, public policy, urban design and planning, urban engineering, civil and environmental engineering, and tourism research, The Making of a Smart City in Korea: The Quest for E-Seoul provides empirical evidence on how the notion of the smart city has been interpreted and applied in Seoul—the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. The contributors show how shifting a traditional city into a digital one has brought about noticeable changes in the governance, economics, arts, and cultures of Seoul. This edited volume on the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s quest for e-Seoul provides great resources for many cities worldwide to seek to benchmark this particular type of smart city, as well as for all those academics in the related fields to learn it theoretically and empirically, given that Seoul has systematically pushed different stages and strategies of the smart urbanization.

This book examines the historical development of Korean food TV and its articulation of Koreanness in the era of globalization. Jaehyeon Jeong defines the evolution of Korean food TV as an outcome of the conjuncture between the television industry's structural changes, the shift in food's landscape and cultural legitimacy, and various sociocultural, political, and economic transformations. In addition, Jeong reveals how the state appropriates the banality of food to raise South Korea's global image and how it utilizes domestic television to disseminate statist discourse of the nation. Understanding discourses of national cuisine as reflective of and formative of discourses of the nation, he argues that the growth of discourses of national cuisine is symptomatic of the struggle for nationness in a globalized world.

An in-depth investigation of the complex relationships among food, culture, and society, Communicating Food in Korea features contributors from a variety of disciplines, including economics, political science, communication studies, nutrition research, tourism research, and more. Each chapter presents a unique interpretation of food's economic, political, and sociocultural relevance. Situated in Korea's shifting historical contexts, contributors explore themes, such as colonialism, food symbolism, gastronationalism, multiculturalism, food tourism, food security, and food sovereignty to research the ways food intersects with social issues in Korean society.

This edited volume analyzes the Korean diaspora across the world and traces the meaning and the performance of homeland. The contributors explore different types of discourses among Korean diaspora across the world, such as personal/familial narratives, oral/life histories, public discourses, and media discourses. They also examine the notion of "space" to diasporic experiences, arguing meanings of space/place for Korean diaspora are increasingly multifaceted.

An in-depth investigation of the complex relationships among food, culture, and society in Korea, Communicating Food in Korea features contributors from a variety of disciplines, including economics, political science, communication studies, nutrition research, hospitality research, tourism research, and more. Each chapter presents diverse interpretations of food's economic, political, and sociocultural relevance. Situated in Korea's shifting historical contexts, including the Japanese colonial era, the postwar era, and the era of multiculturalism and globalization, contributors explore themes such as colonialism, food symbolism, gastronationalism, multiculturalism, food tourism, food security, and food sovereignty to research the ways food intersects with social issues in Korean society.